Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Kent is seeking a professional to provide psychological interventions for adults with severe mental health difficulties. This role involves responsibility for high-quality assessments and therapy, contributing to training, and ensuring clinical effectiveness. Candidates should have a genuine interest in mental health and the ability to work collaboratively. Opportunities for development within a supportive team are available.

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in working therapeutically with clients with severe mental health difficulties.
• Ability to provide evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Experience in assessment and therapeutic interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based psychological interventions to working age adults.
• Undertake direct and indirect specialist psychology interventions.
• Ensure clinical effectiveness through research and development.

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. This post is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Younger Adults Psychological Service in Mental Health Together PLUS, in the West Kent Directorate. This role suits someone with a genuine interest in working therapeutically with a varied and rewarding client group. An understanding of and ability to work with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties is essential.

KMPT values diversity and inclusion and actively seeks to build this into our DNA. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds and encourage applications from under-represented communities for more senior roles like this one.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the systematic provision of a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to working age adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties referred by the Community Mental Health teams within the locality.
• To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions within the service, taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgment in professional practice.
• To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development relevant to the service area.
• To be regularly responsible for providing and contributing to training placements for trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and for providing professional support and line-management to basic/senior psychologists in this specialism.

About KMPT

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community. We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas. You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Apply and further information

Check out our recruitment videos: Recruitment - YouTube. This is a varied and busy post, offering opportunities to learn and develop clinically and organisationally. We look forward to welcoming you to the team. Please see Job Description & Person Specification for full details. This is essential reading for all applicants.

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025