Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
7 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Ideally at least two years’ experience of working with children / young people in a mental health setting
- Experience
Experience of multi-agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies.
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people.
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to maintain a reflective stance in emotive/challenging interactions with children and their families.
- Knowledge and Skills
Capability to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level
- Training, Qualifications and Registration
A registerable professional qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work, counselling, nursing, occupational therapy etc.) from a UK university or equivalent.
- Training, Qualifications and Registration
Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Skills
Understanding evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice.
- Training, Qualifications and Registration
Minimum second-class bachelor’s degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc.).
Job overview
The Kent & Medway All-Age Eating Disorders Service (AAEDS) has an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Recruit to Train Trainee, part of the NHSE funded Recruit to Train Programme in partnership with the Anna Freud Centre, University College London, and Kings College London. You will train as a Systemic Family Practitioner in Eating Disorders.
This is a training role within the Child and Young Persons Improving Access To Psychological Therapies Programme (CYP-IAPT). The post-holder will work within the Kent & Medway All-Age Eating Disorders Service providing interventions to children, young people and their families whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role.
This is a one-year fixed term post with this training year funded by NHSE.
This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions based on CYP-IAPT care principles and also an evidence-based intervention consistent with their training course (SFP-ED). The post-holder will work in the Kent & Medway All Age Eating Disorder Service for at least 3 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme for the remaining 2 days.
This post can be based at either The Courtyard in Maidstone or George Turle House in Canterbury. Because there will be travel across trust sites in good time where required, a driver would be preferred.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
This role will be best suited for applicants that are able to balance a very busy work and study schedule. You will be an employee at the service but also enrolled on a Postgraduate Diploma course. As this is a Postgraduate level training, you will be required to study and perform at academic level. Applicants must be prepared to work towards their studies outside of protected study time (such as on weekends and after work).
Protected study time or teaching days are typically two days a week during term-time (with possibility of extra university days near start) and will be a mixture of in-person and online sessions. Applicants must be willing to travel into London to attend their lectures.
Applicants for this training at KCL will need to be available to start by the 11th of January 2027 at the latest (with the course starting on the 18th of January 2027).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for the main responsibilities expected of this trainee post.
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.
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This advert is for Systemic Family Practitioner CYP-IAPT-ED Trainee with Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust in Maidstone, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Family therapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is 1 year (1 year fixed term). The application deadline is 24 Sep 2026.
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