Clinical Psychologist/ Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Company: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

A Vacancy at Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.

You will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term CYPMHS input and specialist psychological treatments. You will be responsible for all specialist psychological assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CYPMHS.

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 across the locality teams in CYPMHS.
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.

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.

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 representated communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

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).

This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Aug 2026

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Summary

Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Hours: Full-time

Location: Maidstone, ME14 1PA

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 5 Aug 2026

Closing date: 4 Sept 2026