Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Job overview

At Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional adult mental health care to the diverse communities across Swale and the beautiful surrounding Kent countryside.

We are a well-established, dynamic service that values collaboration, innovation, and clinical excellence. We believe in fostering an environment where our clinicians feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist to join our team at a Band 7 level. If you are passionate about making a real difference in people's lives and want to grow alongside a fantastic group of professionals, we would love to meet you.

As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will provide high-quality psychological assessment and therapy to adults navigating complex mental health challenges.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Delivering evidence-based psychological interventions tailored to individual client needs.
• Collaborating with a dynamic, supportive team of clinicians to ensure holistic care.
• Engaging in regular clinical supervision and contributing to the reflective practice of the wider team.
• Helping shape and develop our service to continually improve the care we offer to the Swale and Kent communities

Main duties of the job

You will have the opportunity to be involved in providing assessment and treatment (individual and group), participating in multidisciplinary staff development and supervision, enhancing the provision of psychological therapies for adult mental health, especially for patients with mood and anxiety disorders, and psychosis, service development and evaluation, and a take part in a monthly programme of continuing professional development.

You will also be part of services preparing for the Transformation, welcoming working together with our colleagues in VCSE HEE funded Training, and internal supervision will be available.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holders will be based at the Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital, within the Medway & Swale Psychological Therapies service which includes psychological clinicians of several disciplines, The Swale Psychological Therapies service works closely and in collaboration with the Swale Community Mental Health team as integrated services to provide a comprehensive service to adults with complex and longstanding mental health conditions and emotional difficulties.

The post holders will join a supportive and diverse psychological therapies service with 5 clinicians from clinical psychology, psychodynamic and Arts psychotherapy.

We have strong links with the South Thames Clinical Psychology Training Centre in Tunbridge Wells, attached to Christ Church University in Canterbury and our service is in the process if offering an annual rotation of both first and third year trainees on placement who join our service. These links also provide access to a wide variety of post-qualification training courses and events.

To deliver an effective service it is essential that you are able to travel within the locality in a timely manner. A car is not essential but desirable. Train and bus routes to and from Swale are within walking distance.

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).