# Complex Pathway Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/complex-pathway-lead/9b71b230-fcf8-4b1c-8c45-cc900025e8ca - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/complex-pathway-lead/9b71b230-fcf8-4b1c-8c45-cc900025e8ca.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - **Location:** Swale CYPMHS - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-27T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-13T09:10:31.750Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Sheerness_Kent/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Psychological_Therapies/Psychological_Therapies-v8200748 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8200748?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced mental health practitioner looking to combine direct therapeutic care with meaningful service leadership? We are seeking a compassionate, clear-sighted Complex Pathway Lead to join our Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) team. In this dual-focused Band 7 role, you will balance direct clinical practice (80%) with pathway leadership (20%). You will guide clinicians within the Complex pathway, oversee assessment and treatment models, and manage waiting lists for the Mood and Anxiety Pathway. Working closely with education, social care, and wider wellbeing services, you will ensure children, young people, and their families receive timely, high-quality, and evidence-based care. If you are passionate about transforming outcomes for children and young people while advancing your leadership career, we would love to receive your application! ### Main duties of the job - Direct Clinical Care (80%): Hold an autonomous caseload and deliver targeted therapeutic interventions, including specialist psychological treatments, group work, short-term CYPMHS input, parent work, and school observations. - Pathway & Operational Leadership (20%): Provide clinical and operational guidance to CYPMHS clinicians in the Complex pathway, upholding high standards of evidence-based practice across the team. - Assessment & Outcome Measurement: Oversee comprehensive clinical assessments, care planning, and systematic outcome tracking to ensure interventions remain effective and child-centered. - Access & Waiting List Management: Actively manage waiting lists for the Mood and Anxiety Pathway to ensure timely, accessible, and seamless service delivery. - Clinical Supervision: Provide expert supervision, mentoring, and support to clinical colleagues to foster professional growth. - Multi-Agency Collaboration: Build strong relationships with wider mental health networks, social care, SEND frameworks, and educational partners to deliver holistic support ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role. 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. ### 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 therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems. - Significant experience and specialist knowledge of social care, education, SEN/D or educational healthcare plans as well as CAMHS. - Experience of using observation, including within school or community settings, to contribute to assessment and formulation. ### Knowledge and skills **Essential** - Ability to communicate complex, technical and clinically sensitive information verbally and in writing to children, young people, families, carers and professional colleagues. - Ability to work autonomously while involving colleagues and managers appropriately. - Knowledge of research methodology, outcome measurement, audit and service evaluation, with the ability to critically interpret findings. ### Training, qualifications and registration **Essential** - Successful completion of a graduate or post graduate training (e.g. nursing, psychology, social work, occupational therapy) ) or equivalent substantial CAMHS clinical experience. - Active registration with your relevant regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC) ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10535292) ## 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.