Assistant Psychologist | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust


Company:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Salary:	£28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2QZ
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	24 Jul 2026
Closing date:	23 Aug 2026

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Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and empatheticAssistant Psychologistto join our dynamic Psychological Services team within the Community & Recovery service line.

In this role, you won’t just be sitting on the sidelines. You will be at the heart of our Clinical Care Pathways, delivering vital, manualised, and psychologically informed structured interventions directly to adults facing mental health difficulties in the community.

If you are eager to develop your clinical skills, thrive in a supportive multidisciplinary team, and want to help people build meaningful paths to recovery, we would love to hear from you.

As an Assistant Psychologist, your role is beautifully varied, balancing direct clinical care with service development:

• Deliver 'Initial Interventions':You will be on the frontline, providing targeted, manualized psychological interventions to individuals newly accessing our Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT).

• Structured Therapeutic Support:Using your independent initiative—backed by clear guidelines from a qualified psychologist—you will deliver structured therapeutic interventions across identified services.

• Research & Innovation:You will help us grow and improve by undertaking clinically relevant administration, service audits, research projects, and service improvement initiatives.

• To deliver Initial Interventions to patients within the West Kent CMHT, and participate in training for ii, and in regular clinical supervision for Initial interventions receiving professional support appropriate to the assistant psychologist for ii grade.

• To be responsible for the relevant data collection on work activities, as required, and to maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping.

• To participate fully in supporting the activities of the Psychological Therapies Services within the Trust, Including attending relevant meetings.

• To keep abreast of developments in the area relevant to the field of Adult Mental Health.

• To carry out such other duties as the Head of Speciality may reasonably request.

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.

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

This advert closes on Friday 7 Aug 2026

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