Senior Clinical/ Counselling/Forensic Psychologist | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to provide psychological assessments and treatments while working in a multi-disciplinary team. The role involves clinical supervision, research, and development of services. Candidates should have a relevant clinical psychology degree and experience in similar roles. Join a dedicated team striving for better mental health care across communities in Maidstone, England. This position offers opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in psychological assessment and treatment within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and trainees.
• Experience in leading research and service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and treatment within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Offer clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and trainees.
• Lead service development-oriented research.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Clinical supervision

Research and development

Autonomous judgment

Consultative interventions

Education

Relevant clinical psychology degree

Job description

Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (A & E of Mental Health)

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in the A & E of Mental Health. You will be working in a very dynamic environment, which will provide you with many opportunities to learn and develop your therapeutic and systemic skills. There will also be an opportunity to be creative and innovative within the role, bringing new ideas, incorporating evidence‑based practice into how the service is delivered.

You will support and assist the core aims within the service, both in direct clinical work and as a positive member of the multi‑disciplinary team and wider service, having an important strategic and liaison function supporting the transition of patients between services.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and treatment within a multi‑disciplinary team and offer consultation and treatment for our more complex cases.
• Offer clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and trainees, as well as Band 7 Psychologists and our multi‑disciplinary colleagues.
• Take a lead role in service development‑oriented research and publishing research.
• 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 speciality.
• Undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in these services taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in your professional practice.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex, severe and enduring mental health difficulties referred to Acute services, utilising information from a broad range of structured psychometric and semi‑structured clinical methodologies and integrating it into a psychological formulation of the client and the psychosocial environment, drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

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. And 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 doing well together.

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Dec 2025.