Overview
Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – A & E of Mental Health. A dynamic environment that encourages creative, evidence‑based practice and offers opportunities for learning and development across therapeutic and systemic skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide psychological assessment and treatment within a multi‑disciplinary team and offer consultation and treatment for complex cases.
- Offer clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and trainees, as well as Band 7 Psychologists and multi‑disciplinary colleagues.
- Take a lead role in service‑development research and publishing research related to the service area.
- Ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
- Be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainee clinical/counselling psychologists in this specialism.
- Undertake high‑quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions, exercising autonomous judgement.
- Provide specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex, severe and enduring mental health difficulties referred to Acute services, utilising structured psychometric and semi‑structured clinical methodologies and integrating findings into a comprehensive formulation.
About the Trust
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway, supporting adults with a wide range of mental health needs in hospital and community settings. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we serve over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are serious about diversity and inclusion and warmly welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds. We actively encourage applications from under‑represented communities for senior roles such as this one.
Application Deadline
This advert closes on Monday 20 Apr 2026.
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