# Clinical Psychologist/ Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist-counselling-psychologistpsychotherapist/57685dab-6105-4cab-b8c1-5da8db83c1f2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist-counselling-psychologistpsychotherapist/57685dab-6105-4cab-b8c1-5da8db83c1f2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust - **Location:** Priority House (ME16 9PH) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57528.00 to £64750.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-15T13:22:36.849Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8370793 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8370793?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview You will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term CYPMHS input and specialist psychological treatments. You will be responsible for all specialist psychological assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CYPMHS. ### Main duties of the job - To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families. - Where appropriate to supervise assistant psychologists across the locality teams in CYPMHS. - To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families. - To undertake a range of clinical work, assessment work and parenting support. - To contribute to audit and research. - To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT. - To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role. The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).' ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions - Experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs. (i.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma) - Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems - Experience of using observation (e.g. In school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children - Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team - Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person **Desirable** - Experience delivering reflective practice ### Knowledge, Skills, Training **Essential** - Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in CAMHS - Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies - Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines - Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety - Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings - Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside CAMHS - Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work Desirable criteria Maximum score 2 **Desirable** - Experience leading an MDT ### Qualifications and Registrations **Essential** - Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child and adolescent psychotherapy) - To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, AFT, ACP) **Desirable** - Experience in Quality Improvement Projects ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 208.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10698487) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.