Senior Clinical Psychologist | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust


Company:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Staplehurst, TN12 0ER
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Jul 2026
Closing date:	8 Aug 2026

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Summary

You will be a qualified fully registered HCPC Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a passion for working in this area. As part of the QNIC recommended structure for inpatient CYP units, we are recruiting for these psychology posts into our Kent & Medway Adolescent Hospital MDT.

You will work very closely with CYMPHS across inpatient and community in Kent, the Kent and Sussex provider collaborative and other stakeholders as well as the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service who offer specialist DBT assessments and interventions to young people and their families who are referred.

You will be part of the ward MDT as well as linking with the Intensive Home Treatment team to ensure a smooth pathway for CYP between inpatient and community.

You will facilitate the therapeutic component of the ward programme with the MDT to ensure the clinical model is delivered with junior members of the Psychological Professions team and will join a thriving psychological professions team across comprehensive CAMHS (inpatient and community). We have strong links with our local psychology training institute and on-going NHSE training for workforce expansion and upskilling.

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).

• 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, psychologists and trainees across the services.

• 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.

• To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and service delivery by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

• To be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainee clinical psychologists in clinical neuropsychology.

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.

Take a look at our Clinical Associate Psychologist Video

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.

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jul 2026

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