Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME14 5TS |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7370628/380-WK0307 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
We are delighted to be recruiting a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist to our Mental Health Together and Mental Health Together Plus Psychological Therapies Service.
You will join a dedicated and supportive team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Art Psychotherapists, Systemic Psychotherapists (Family Therapy team is part of the service), with staff trained in more than one modality - such as CAT, EMDR and MBT. In addition, our team includes a mental health wellbeing practitioner and an Assistant Psychologist.
Our population are working age adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties in West Kent. We offer individual work to our clients and groups in MBT and DBT and CBT for Bi Polar and Psychosis.
We work systemically with our colleagues in wider services and as a Psychological therapies team, we meet weekly as a team. This space offers peer supervision, reflective practice and monthly external supervision. Providing professional development and currently offering further training opportunities to expand knowledge and skills in various modalities.
We have a good liaison with the local doctoral training course in Clinical Psychology and have trainee placements available annually. We also offer supervision for family therapy trainees within the trust.
Participate in the provision of psychological services to adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties within the West Kent locality served by the Trust.
In particular:
• Be responsible for the systematic provision of the Psychology Service to clients with complex and longstanding mental health difficulties as referred from the secondary care mental health service within the West Kent Psychological Therapies service.
• Undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in these services, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
• Ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team of the West Kent MHT and Plus Community Mental Health Team.
You will have your own caseload of individual and group interventions. Experience of Mentalisation based psychotherapy, Structured Clinical Management and EMDR are welcome in addition to core training competencies. Health and Education England funded formal training will be available for those interested in a higher qualification in specific interventions.
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
The successful candidates will hold a doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, or equivalent for psychotherapists, experience in secondary care and have membership with a relevant organisation such as HCPC/BPC/UKCP/BABCP.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Sep 2025
We are delighted to be recruiting a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist to our Mental Health Together and Mental Health Together Plus Psychological Therapies Service.
You will join a dedicated and supportive team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Art Psychotherapists, Systemic Psychotherapists (Family Therapy team is part of the service), with staff trained in more than one modality - such as CAT, EMDR and MBT. In addition, our team includes a mental health wellbeing practitioner and an Assistant Psychologist.
Our population are working age adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties in West Kent. We offer individual work to our clients and groups in MBT and DBT and CBT for Bi Polar and Psychosis.
We work systemically with our colleagues in wider services and as a Psychological therapies team, we meet weekly as a team. This space offers peer supervision, reflective practice and monthly external supervision. Providing professional development and currently offering further training opportunities to expand knowledge and skills in various modalities.
We have a good liaison with the local doctoral training course in Clinical Psychology and have trainee placements available annually. We also offer supervision for family therapy trainees within the trust.
Participate in the provision of psychological services to adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties within the West Kent locality served by the Trust.
In particular:
• Be responsible for the systematic provision of the Psychology Service to clients with complex and longstanding mental health difficulties as referred from the secondary care mental health service within the West Kent Psychological Therapies service.
• Undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in these services, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
• Ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team of the West Kent MHT and Plus Community Mental Health Team.
You will have your own caseload of individual and group interventions. Experience of Mentalisation based psychotherapy, Structured Clinical Management and EMDR are welcome in addition to core training competencies. Health and Education England funded formal training will be available for those interested in a higher qualification in specific interventions.
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
The successful candidates will hold a doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, or equivalent for psychotherapists, experience in secondary care and have membership with a relevant organisation such as HCPC/BPC/UKCP/BABCP.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Sep 2025
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