# Specialist Trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- **Town:** Maidstone
- **Region:** South East
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** 4 years (Fixed-term training post)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21T11:51:40.868Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Tunbridge_Wells/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Psychotherapy/Psychotherapy-v8084792
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8084792?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Specialist Child Psychotherapist Trainee to join our friendly, thriving and energetic service, based in Tunbridge Wells CYPMHS.   The post is fully funded by Health Education England. Funding will be provided for salary, analysis, training  (including intensive case supervision) and travel expenses.

The post is open to British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) trainees in the beginning stages  of the Independent Psychoanalytic Child and adolescent Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA) doctoral training.

Applicants must be ready to embark on intensive clinical work.

### Main duties of the job

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist care pathway for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.

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 generic clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.

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 CYPMHS framework 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.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Substantial experience of working with children and young people across the age range on a professional basis.
- Personal suitability (e.g. reflective, mature and responsible).
- To maintain eligibility for registration as a Trainee member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

### Training, Qualifications and Registration

**Essential**

- To have MA status, and to have been accepted onto the full clinical training at doctoral level at IPCAPA.

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394)
- [trust name change (pdf, 813.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2991)
- [trainee psychotherapist jd and person spec (pdf, 344.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10377463)

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