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<h3><strong>The Role: Referrals Networker</strong></h3><p>Do you enjoy meeting people, building relationships, and championing causes that make a real difference?</p><p>We’re looking for a <strong>Referrals Networker</strong> to be the vital link between Read Easy and the local community. In this role, you’ll connect with local organisations and services to make sure adults who struggle with reading — as well as potential volunteers — know about the life-changing support we offer.</p><p>This is a role for someone who loves reaching out, building trust, and ensuring no one is left behind because of reading challenges.</p><h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3><ul><li>Build strong relationships with local partners such as libraries, job centres, housing associations, GP surgeries, and adult education providers.</li><li>Raise awareness of Read Easy’s free one-to-one reading coaching and encourage referrals of both readers and volunteers.</li><li>Represent Read Easy at local events, community meetings, and networking opportunities.</li><li>Identify new referral routes and creative ways to reach adults who need support.</li><li>Maintain an up-to-date contact list and track referral outcomes.</li><li>Gather feedback to help the team strengthen community connections.</li></ul><h3><strong>Time commitment</strong></h3><p>This position is flexible and can mainly be done at times that suit you. Between 2 to 4 hours a week, depending on how much time you can spare.&nbsp;This role is performed mainly online at home using a provided MS 365 Office account, role email, MS Teams, telephone and text.&nbsp; Visits to local organisation will be required.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h3><ul><li>A confident communicator who enjoys engaging with individuals and groups.</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build positive, lasting partnerships.</li><li>A genuine interest in supporting the local community.</li><li>Enthusiasm, empathy, and reliability.</li><li>(Some experience or awareness of the charity sector is helpful, but not essential.)</li></ul><h3><strong>What You’ll Gain</strong></h3><p>Volunteering as a Referrals Networker is a rewarding way to make a direct and lasting impact in your community. You’ll help adults take their first steps towards reading — and in doing so, open up a world of opportunities.</p><p>You’ll also gain:</p><ul><li>Experience in community engagement, partnership-building, and outreach.</li><li>Confidence in public speaking and networking.</li><li>Insight into how local services and charities work together.</li><li>Transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, and initiative.</li><li>Obtain a work experience reference to enhance employability&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><h3><strong>Support and Training</strong></h3><p>You’ll receive:</p><ul><li>A warm welcome, induction, and ongoing guidance from your Team Leader and fellow volunteers.</li><li>Access to a library of resources and referral materials.</li><li>A Management Team Handbook to support you in your role.</li><li>The backing of experienced Read Easy volunteers and groups across the UK.</li></ul><h3><strong>Ready to Make a Difference?</strong></h3><p>If you’d like to use your people skills to change lives in your community — one reader at a time — we’d love to hear from you. Contact:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:threcruiter3@readeasy.org.uk" target="_blank">threcruiter3@readeasy.org.uk</a>&nbsp;</p>

Volunteer Role: Referrals Networker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><b>Theatre Practitioner – RGN / ODP | KIMS Hospital, Maidstone</b><b>Full Time, Permanent | Competitive Salary (in line with Agenda for Change)</b></p><p>Are you an experienced and patient-focused&nbsp;<b>Scrub Practitioner</b>&nbsp;looking to work in a supportive, state-of-the-art environment where your development matters?</p><p>At&nbsp;<b>KIMS Hospital</b>, we’re proud to offer exciting opportunities within our&nbsp;<b>AfPP-accredited Theatres team</b>—the only private team in Kent to hold this distinction. We are expanding due to&nbsp;<b>internal promotions</b>, and we're looking for dedicated and skilled&nbsp;<b>Registered Nurses (RGN)</b>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<b>Operating Department Practitioners (ODP)</b>&nbsp;to join us in delivering the highest standards of perioperative care.</p><p>This is more than just a role—it’s a chance to&nbsp;<b>shape your career your way,</b>&nbsp;you’ll have access to&nbsp;<b>structured training and development opportunities</b>&nbsp;across a range of specialties. You’ll also work&nbsp;<b>alongside some of the region’s leading consultants</b>, gaining invaluable experience in a collaborative, multidisciplinary setting.</p><p>This role is 40 hours per week between Monday and Saturday.&nbsp; Saturdays are on average one per month.</p><p><b>Apply today to advance your theatre career with KIMS Hospital—where excellence meets opportunity.</b></p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul> <li>Providing expert scrub support for general and orthopaedic cases.</li> <li>Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care</li> <li>Collaborating effectively with departments such as Imaging, Wards, and Sterile Services</li> <li>Ensuring patient dignity, comfort, and confidentiality at all times</li> <li>Upholding ethical and legal standards in your own practice and that of your colleagues</li></ul>  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Our people are our greatest asset. We’re committed to fostering a culture where you feel&nbsp;<b>valued, supported, and empowered to grow</b>.</p><p><b>Our comprehensive benefits include:</b></p><ul> <li>Competitive salary</li> <li>33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) plus a day off for your birthday</li> <li>Free secure on-site parking</li> <li>Private health insurance</li> <li>Life assurance</li> <li>Pension scheme</li> <li>Up to 40% discount on selected KIMS Hospital services</li> <li>Employee Assistance Programme</li> <li>Retail discounts and cashback offers</li> <li>Discounted gym membership</li> <li>Annual flu vaccination and free eye test</li></ul><p>At KIMS Hospital, we are passionate about creating a&nbsp;<b>diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace</b>. We are proud to be an&nbsp;<b>equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer</b>, committed to reflecting the communities we serve.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>03 November 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
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      <p>Band 5</p>
  
  

  
  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
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      Depending on experience
      
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  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>3125-1</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
        <p>K I M S Hospital Ltd</p>
      
      <p>Newnham Court Way</p>
      <p>Weavering</p>
      <p>Maidstone</p>
      <p>Kent</p>
      <p>ME14 5FT</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
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    <p>For more information regarding this role please see the attached job description and person specification.</p>
  

  
    
      
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Registered Practitioner (RGN or ODP) with current NMC/HCPC registration</li>
        
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Passion for high-quality, patient-centred care </li>
        
        <li>Evidence of ongoing professional development and enthusiasm for learning</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>While Theatre experience (NHS or private) is desirable, we also welcome enthusiastic newly qualified practitioners ready to grow in this role.</li>
          
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            Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Registered Practitioner (RGN or ODP) with current NMC/HCPC registration</li>
          
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            Experience
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Passion for high-quality, patient-centred care </li>
          
          <li>Evidence of ongoing professional development and enthusiasm for learning</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
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            <li>While Theatre experience (NHS or private) is desirable, we also welcome enthusiastic newly qualified practitioners ready to grow in this role.</li>
            
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>KIMS Hospital</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>K I M S Hospital Ltd</p>
      
      <p>Newnham Court Way</p>
      <p>Weavering</p>
      <p>Maidstone</p>
      <p>Kent</p>
      <p>ME14 5FT</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://kims.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://kims.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
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        <p>KIMS Hospital</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>K I M S Hospital Ltd</p>
          
          <p>Newnham Court Way</p>
          <p>Weavering</p>
          <p>Maidstone</p>
          <p>Kent</p>
          <p>ME14 5FT</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://kims.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://kims.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

NHS Jobs

Theatre Practitioner – RGN / ODP

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>The post-holder will be a qualified fully registered HCPC Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a passion for working in this area. As part of the QNIC recommended structure for inpatient CYP units, we are recruiting for these psychology posts into our Kent &amp; Medway Adolescent Hospital MDT. The post holder will work very closely with Children and Young People's Mental Health Services across inpatient and community in Kent NELFT, the Kent and Sussex provider collaborative and other stakeholders. The Kent NELFT DBT Service offers specialist DBT assessments and interventions to YP and their families who are referred. The postholder will take a lead in liaison with all CYPMHS services to ensure clear transitions for young people entering and leaving inpatient services; linking with the DBT Service and where appropriate supporting the transition to Adult Services. The post holder will be part of the delivery of a highly specialist therapeutic service to CYP in the unit. They will be part of the inpatient clinical team and take on a leadership role whilst being accountable to the Head of Service and Assistant Director for inpatient/home treatment and crisis services.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.</p> <p>The postholder will join a thriving psychological professions team across comprehensive CAMHS (inpatient and community). We have strong links with our local psychology training institute and on-going NHSE training for workforce expansion and upskilling.</p> <p>We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.</p> <p><strong>Certificates of Sponsorship</strong></p> <p>Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.</p> <p><strong>Use of AI</strong></p> <p>Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.</p>   <h3>About us</h3>
  <p><strong>Our Values 2025 - 2030</strong></p> <p>Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.</p> <p>They are:</p> <p>We are kind. </p> <p>We are respectful. </p> <p>We work together with our communities.</p> <p>These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.</p> <p><strong>Probationary Period</strong> </p> <p>This post will be subject to a probationary period.</p>       
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>02 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £55,690 to £62,682 a year
      
        p.a. pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>395-PP149-25</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital</p>
      <p>Iden Manor, Cranbrook Road</p>
      <p>Tonbridge</p>
            <p>TN12 0ER</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
     <p>To provide highly specialist psychological assessment of children and young people with complex emotional, mental health and social needs, including children with diagnoses of learning disability, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental difficulties. The post holder will utilise highly specialist clinical knowledge of particular relevance to this client group.</p>  <p>Assessments to be based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests (WISC &amp; WAIS), behavioural assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews. This may include assessment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.</p>  <p>Case formulation will lead to intervention plans involving evidence-based interventions (FBA, PBS, CBT etc.), taking account of the need to engage clients who may have additional communication and learning needs.</p>  <p>To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for clients, their families and care systems. To monitor and evaluate client progress during both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and to be responsible for adjustments and refinements to psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.</p>  <p>To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering current theoretical and therapeutic models and also highly complex factors concerning developmental difficulties, chronic illness, and historical processes that have affected the young person, family or care system.</p>  <p>To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.</p>  <p>To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. This would include the dissemination of psychology research and theory.</p>  <p>To act, where appropriate, as multi-agency coordinator for the planning and review of care plans for children involved with complex, multi-agency systems.</p>  <p>To undertake risk and management assessment of clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk.</p>  <p>To offer clinical supervision as required within the multi-disciplinary team.</p>   <p>To have an understanding of the 2014 Children and Families Act in regards to children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).</p>  <p>To be flexible and responsive to the changing needs and priorities of the multi- disciplinary team.</p>  <p>To work in line within the context of CYP IAPT and iThrive principles, using evidence based psychological models of treatment and routine outcome measures.</p>  <p>Responsible for holding own caseload and for providing assessment and therapeutic interventions to address the mental health needs of children, young people and their families. This is delivered through regular contact within therapeutic sessions.</p>  <p>Responsible for maintaining service standards within own practice, including clinical governance and clinical risk assessment, and within the neurodevelopmental Pathway.</p>  <p>Responsible for creating and maintaining client records and notes.</p>  <p>Provision of specialist advice, within boundaries of own role, skills and knowledge.</p>  <p>Contribute professional opinion to relevant legal decision-making processes (e.g. child protection arrangements, domestic violence and abuse cases)</p>  <p>The post holder will receive supervision according to individual need</p>   

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
       <p>To provide highly specialist psychological assessment of children and young people with complex emotional, mental health and social needs, including children with diagnoses of learning disability, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental difficulties. The post holder will utilise highly specialist clinical knowledge of particular relevance to this client group.</p>  <p>Assessments to be based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests (WISC &amp; WAIS), behavioural assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews. This may include assessment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.</p>  <p>Case formulation will lead to intervention plans involving evidence-based interventions (FBA, PBS, CBT etc.), taking account of the need to engage clients who may have additional communication and learning needs.</p>  <p>To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for clients, their families and care systems. To monitor and evaluate client progress during both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and to be responsible for adjustments and refinements to psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.</p>  <p>To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering current theoretical and therapeutic models and also highly complex factors concerning developmental difficulties, chronic illness, and historical processes that have affected the young person, family or care system.</p>  <p>To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.</p>  <p>To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. This would include the dissemination of psychology research and theory.</p>  <p>To act, where appropriate, as multi-agency coordinator for the planning and review of care plans for children involved with complex, multi-agency systems.</p>  <p>To undertake risk and management assessment of clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk.</p>  <p>To offer clinical supervision as required within the multi-disciplinary team.</p>   <p>To have an understanding of the 2014 Children and Families Act in regards to children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).</p>  <p>To be flexible and responsive to the changing needs and priorities of the multi- disciplinary team.</p>  <p>To work in line within the context of CYP IAPT and iThrive principles, using evidence based psychological models of treatment and routine outcome measures.</p>  <p>Responsible for holding own caseload and for providing assessment and therapeutic interventions to address the mental health needs of children, young people and their families. This is delivered through regular contact within therapeutic sessions.</p>  <p>Responsible for maintaining service standards within own practice, including clinical governance and clinical risk assessment, and within the neurodevelopmental Pathway.</p>  <p>Responsible for creating and maintaining client records and notes.</p>  <p>Provision of specialist advice, within boundaries of own role, skills and knowledge.</p>  <p>Contribute professional opinion to relevant legal decision-making processes (e.g. child protection arrangements, domestic violence and abuse cases)</p>  <p>The post holder will receive supervision according to individual need</p>     
  


      
  
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          Doctorate in clinical/counselling Psychology or equivalent
        
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        <li>Experience working with families in CAMHS undertaking assessments</li>
        
        <li>Experience working with complexities in CAMHS</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Experience working with families in a tier 4 inpateint setting</li>
          
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        <li>Must have an HCPC registeration</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Must have sound knowledge about safeguarding</li>
          
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            Doctorate in clinical/counselling Psychology or equivalent
          
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          <li>Experience working with complexities in CAMHS</li>
          
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            <li>Experience working with families in a tier 4 inpateint setting</li>
            
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            <li>Must have sound knowledge about safeguarding</li>
            
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    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
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          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>NELFT North East London Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital</p>
      <p>Iden Manor, Cranbrook Road</p>
      <p>Tonbridge</p>
            <p>TN12 0ER</p>
    
  

  
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        <p><a href="https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <p>NELFT North East London Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital</p>
          <p>Iden Manor, Cranbrook Road</p>
          <p>Tonbridge</p>
                    <p>TN12 0ER</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
   <p>The post-holder will be a qualified fully registered HCPC Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a passion for working in this area. As part of the QNIC recommended structure for inpatient CYP units, we are recruiting for these psychology posts into our Kent &amp; Medway Adolescent Hospital MDT. The post holder will work very closely with Children and Young People's Mental Health Services across inpatient and community in Kent NELFT, the Kent and Sussex provider collaborative and other stakeholders. The post holder will work very closely with the Kent NELFT Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service who offer specialist DBT assessments and interventions to YP and their families who are referred.</p>  <p>The post holder will be part of the ward MDT as well as linking with the Intensive Home Treatment team to ensure a smooth pathway for CYP between inpatient and community flow. The post holder will facilitate the therapeutic component of the ward programme with the MDT to ensure the clinical model is delivered with senior members of the Psychological Professions team.</p>  <p>The postholder will join a thriving psychological professions team across comprehensive CAMHS (inpatient and community). We have strong links with our local psychology training institute and on-going NHSE training for workforce expansion and upskilling. </p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>o 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.</p> <p>o Where appropriate to supervise assistant psychologists and trainees across the services.</p> <p>o To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.</p> <p>o To undertake a range of clinical work, assessment work and parenting support.</p> <p>o To contribute to audit and research.</p> <p>o To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.</p> <p>o To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust's policies and procedures.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p><strong>Our Values 2025 - 2030</strong></p>   <p>Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.</p> <p>They are:</p> <ul>  <li><strong>We are kind.</strong></li>  <li><strong>We are respectful.</strong></li>  <li><strong>We work together with our communities.</strong></li> </ul> <p>These three values help us to<em>strive to provide the best care by the best people.</em></p>   <p><strong>Probationary Period</strong></p> <p>This post will be subject to a probationary period.</p> <p>NELFT place great importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>02 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
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      <p>Band 7</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £47,810 to £54,710 a year
      
        per annum (plus HCAS)
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>395-PP148-25</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital</p>
      <p>Iden Manor, Cranbrook Road</p>
      <p>Tonbridge</p>
            <p>TN12 0ER</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p> To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC).</p> <p> To use appropriate clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, children, adolescents, and their families to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.</p> <p> To work alongside other colleagues in CYPMHS and in the care pathway to provide an indepth comprehensive assessment of the childs, young persons, and familys functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched difficulties in the family.</p> <p> To provide therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation.</p> <p> To provide clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems.</p> <p> To undertake observations of children in school settings as part of wider assessments.</p> <p> To provide therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people.</p> <p> To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict</p> <p> To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.</p> <p> To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p> To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC).</p> <p> To use appropriate clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, children, adolescents, and their families to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.</p> <p> To work alongside other colleagues in CYPMHS and in the care pathway to provide an indepth comprehensive assessment of the childs, young persons, and familys functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched difficulties in the family.</p> <p> To provide therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation.</p> <p> To provide clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems.</p> <p> To undertake observations of children in school settings as part of wider assessments.</p> <p> To provide therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people.</p> <p> To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict</p> <p> To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.</p> <p> To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child, and adolescent psychotherapy, CBT therapist)</li>
        
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          Knowledge
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>An awareness of NHS Priorities and Issues</li>
        
        <li>High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in  CAMHS</li>
        
        <li>Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding  procedures and policies.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and  Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice</li>
        
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          Skills
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters</li>
        
        <li>Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation</li>
        
        <li>Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information</li>
        
        <li>Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor</li>
        
        <li>Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work on their own , using own initiative with their professional remit and seeking further support as needed</li>
        
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs</li>
        
        <li>Extensive    experience of working with challenging  children/young   people requiring   skilled    and complex interventions.</li>
        
        <li>Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems</li>
        
        <li>Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi -disciplinary team</li>
        
        <li>Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter -agency meetings</li>
        
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            Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child, and adolescent psychotherapy, CBT therapist)</li>
          
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            Knowledge
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>An awareness of NHS Priorities and Issues</li>
          
          <li>High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in  CAMHS</li>
          
          <li>Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding  procedures and policies.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and  Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters</li>
          
          <li>Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation</li>
          
          <li>Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information</li>
          
          <li>Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor</li>
          
          <li>Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work on their own , using own initiative with their professional remit and seeking further support as needed</li>
          
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            Experience
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs</li>
          
          <li>Extensive    experience of working with challenging  children/young   people requiring   skilled    and complex interventions.</li>
          
          <li>Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems</li>
          
          <li>Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi -disciplinary team</li>
          
          <li>Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter -agency meetings</li>
          
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>NELFT North East London Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital</p>
      <p>Iden Manor, Cranbrook Road</p>
      <p>Tonbridge</p>
            <p>TN12 0ER</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>NELFT North East London Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital</p>
          <p>Iden Manor, Cranbrook Road</p>
          <p>Tonbridge</p>
                    <p>TN12 0ER</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

CYP Clinical Psychologist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>NELFT's Kent &amp; Medway All Age Eating Disorders Service specialises in the assessment, diagnosis and NICE concordant treatment of young people and adults with Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder &amp; Otherwise Specified Feeding &amp; Eating Disorders). Additional pathways have been added to the Service with transformation monies including an Enhanced Care pathway and First Episode Rapid Early Intervention in Eating Disorders (FREED) and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).</p> <p>This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multidisciplinary all age specialist Community Eating Disorder team. The team is committed to delivering the highest quality service to enable service users live the life they want. This opportunity gives the successful candidate the chance to influence the success of this innovative Eating Disorder service</p> <p>We are looking for applicants who have enthusiasm for working in specialist mental health services, who are adaptable; enjoy variety, can working independently as well as understanding the importance of team working. You will form part of our patient focused service, providing a high quality, accurate and timely service.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The All-Age Eating Disorder Service is based across the County of Kent at George Turle House, Canterbury, and The Courtyard, Maidstone, with Specialist support offered to the Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital in Staplehurst. Geographically, we support the County of Kent and Medway, so the ability to travel is essential.</p> <p>You will need to be passionate about delivering high quality care to complex mental health service users and be innovative in your approach to helping us in developing new pathways within the NHS transformation agenda.</p> <p>Prospective post holders are encouraged to find out more about this exciting role.</p> <p>The successful applicant will support the team with duty and routine assessments, triages for patients where binge eating disorder or bulimia may be indicated at the point of referral. You will also support in the delivery of guided self help programmes, and CBT based interventions such as CBT-T and our First Stage of Treatment Programme.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p><strong>Our Values 2025 - 2030</strong></p>   <p>Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.</p> <p>They are:</p> <ul>  <li><strong>We are kind.</strong></li>  <li><strong>We are respectful.</strong></li>  <li><strong>We work together with our communities.</strong></li> </ul> <p>These three values help us to<em>strive to provide the best care by the best people.</em></p>   <p><strong>Probationary Period</strong></p> <p>This post will be subject to a probationary period.</p> <p><strong>Starting with Us</strong></p> <p>NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.</p>       
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>26 November 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 5</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £31,049 to £37,796 a year
      
        per annum
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time,
        
      
        
          Part-time,
        
      
        
          Job share,
        
      
        
          Flexible working
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>395-KM383-25</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>The Courtyard/ Georges Turle House</p>
            <p>Maidstone/ Canterbury</p>
            <p>ME141PA</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>There will also be an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in the delivery in a new innovative digital pathway for patients diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder, and Bulimia.</p> <p>The post holder will be expected to attend and participate in MDT team meetings as well as CPA meetings of cases on their case load. You will also be expected to manage an active caseload, prepare and attend regular individual and group supervisions and maintain high levels of data quality.</p> <p>As the service is exclusively an outpatient service, the post holder will not hold an inpatient case load.</p> <p>The post holders will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.</p> <p><strong>Certificates of Sponsorship</strong>Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.</p> <p><strong>Use of AI</strong>Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.</p>    

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>There will also be an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in the delivery in a new innovative digital pathway for patients diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder, and Bulimia.</p> <p>The post holder will be expected to attend and participate in MDT team meetings as well as CPA meetings of cases on their case load. You will also be expected to manage an active caseload, prepare and attend regular individual and group supervisions and maintain high levels of data quality.</p> <p>As the service is exclusively an outpatient service, the post holder will not hold an inpatient case load.</p> <p>The post holders will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.</p> <p><strong>Certificates of Sponsorship</strong>Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.</p> <p><strong>Use of AI</strong>Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.</p>      
  


      
  
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)</li>
        
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice</li>
        
        <li>Experience running groups/activities</li>
        
        <li>Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing</li>
        
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          Knowledge
        
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        <li>An awareness of NHS priorities</li>
        
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        <li>Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers</li>
        
        <li>Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality</li>
        
        <li>Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.</li>
        
        <li>Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan</li>
        
        <li>Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs</li>
        
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          <li>Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers</li>
          
          <li>Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality</li>
          
          <li>Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.</li>
          
          <li>Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan</li>
          
          <li>Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs</li>
          
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    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>NELFT North East London Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>The Courtyard/ Georges Turle House</p>
            <p>Maidstone/ Canterbury</p>
            <p>ME141PA</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <p>NELFT North East London Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>The Courtyard/ Georges Turle House</p>
                    <p>Maidstone/ Canterbury</p>
                    <p>ME141PA</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner - Eating Disorders

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>The Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (EIP) and now including the A Risk Mental State (ARMS) pathway are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join the service. Intent on providing evidence-based interventions, this service is committed to providing good quality psychological therapies for people with psychosis and their families.</p> <p>Experience in Mental health (especially psychosis) and additional Specialist Postgraduate Qualification to Masters level or equivalent in relevant Family and/ or Systemic Psychotherapy is necessary for the role.</p> <p>The Early Intervention for Psychosis Service is a well-respected and well-established multi-disciplinary service with a reputation for excellence. The EIP psychological therapies service is integrated within the EIP service and committed to providing support, excellent supervision and todeveloping its staff.</p>   <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Family work is an integral part of EIP care offered to service users and their carers/family members. You would be responsible for offering high quality family interventions and lead on carer interventions/education programs across the East Kent EIP teams. Case consultation, supervision and joint working with staff in the multidisciplinary teams will also be an expectation.</p> <p>You will have plenty of scope and support to develop your own practice, whilst providing a highly professional service to people with psychosis and to their families.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>19 November 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £55,690 to £62,682 a year
      
        per annum
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>380-EK353-B</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Eureka Park, Ashford</p>
      <p>Trinity Road</p>
      <p>Ashford</p>
            <p>TN25 4BY</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>At Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, 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.</strong></p> <p>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), as completing home visits timeously is essential to this role.</p> <p>Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p><strong>At Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, 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.</strong></p> <p>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), as completing home visits timeously is essential to this role.</p> <p>Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Relevant Masters Level Qualification &amp; Registration</li>
        
        <li>Additional Specialist Training</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Experience/competencies
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Years of Relevant NHS experience</li>
        
        <li>Experience of psychosis/ EIP/CHYPS</li>
        
        <li>Experience of successful MDT &amp; Partnership working</li>
        
        <li>Experience of managing &amp; clinically supervising staff</li>
        
        <li>Clinical Leadership</li>
        
        <li>Experience &amp; models of FI</li>
        
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            Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Relevant Masters Level Qualification &amp; Registration</li>
          
          <li>Additional Specialist Training</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Experience/competencies
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Years of Relevant NHS experience</li>
          
          <li>Experience of psychosis/ EIP/CHYPS</li>
          
          <li>Experience of successful MDT &amp; Partnership working</li>
          
          <li>Experience of managing &amp; clinically supervising staff</li>
          
          <li>Clinical Leadership</li>
          
          <li>Experience &amp; models of FI</li>
          
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Eureka Park, Ashford</p>
      <p>Trinity Road</p>
      <p>Ashford</p>
            <p>TN25 4BY</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <p>Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Eureka Park, Ashford</p>
          <p>Trinity Road</p>
          <p>Ashford</p>
                    <p>TN25 4BY</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in the A &amp; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul>  <li>You will provide psychological assessment and treatment within a multi-disciplinary team and offer consultation and treatment for our more complex cases.</li>  <li>You will offer clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and trainees, as well as Band 7 Psychologists and our multi-disciplinary colleagues.</li>  <li>There will be an opportunity to take a lead role in service development-oriented research and publishing research.</li>  <li>To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area</li>  <li>To be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainee clinical/counselling psychologists in this specialism.</li>  <li>To 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 their professional practice.</li> </ul>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>04 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £55,690 to £62,682 a year
      
        per annum, pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>380-AC0756-A</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Priority House Hospital</p>
      <p>Hermitage Lane</p>
      <p>Maidstone</p>
            <p>ME16 9NZ</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <ul>
<li>To 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.</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <ul>
<li>To 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.</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Training &amp; Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Registration with the Health &amp; Care Professions Council (HCPC) as Practitioner Psychologist</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Formal training in supervision of other psychologists</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at speciality level. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience and expertise in acute mental health</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Skills &amp; Knowledge
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Evidence of specialised psychological therapeutic skills as used in complex cases within acute psychology settings.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Specialist skills in DBT, psychosis and applying this to an acute setting.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
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            Training &amp; Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Registration with the Health &amp; Care Professions Council (HCPC) as Practitioner Psychologist</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Formal training in supervision of other psychologists</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at speciality level. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience and expertise in acute mental health</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Skills &amp; Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Evidence of specialised psychological therapeutic skills as used in complex cases within acute psychology settings.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Specialist skills in DBT, psychosis and applying this to an acute setting.</li>
            
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    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Priority House Hospital</p>
      <p>Hermitage Lane</p>
      <p>Maidstone</p>
            <p>ME16 9NZ</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <p>Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Priority House Hospital</p>
          <p>Hermitage Lane</p>
          <p>Maidstone</p>
                    <p>ME16 9NZ</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Senior Clinical/ Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

Bank SMS Nurse HMP Elmley Band 6

Bank SMS Nurse HMP Rochester Band 6

<i>Location</i>East Kent

	<i>Position</i>Clinical Trainee Placements

	<i>Advertising Salary</i>Not Applicable

	<i>Vacancy Type</i>Placement

	<i>Careers Site Advertising End Date</i>Not Specified

	<i>Hours</i>Hours Per Week:7

	<i>Working Pattern</i>Mon - Fri

	<i>School Website URL</i>Not Specified
 
	       

        

        
		<h2>About The Role</h2>
	
		
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    <li><strong>Thank you for your interest in a Counselling Placement at a Place2Be partner school!&nbsp;Click this link to view a map of our placement schools:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en&amp;mid=1FifS_0M0IiXmPX8eVUc-1EAlBcG_xag&amp;ll=53.72628311420423%2C-1.5667679000000136&amp;z=6" target="_blank">Placement Map</a>&nbsp;</strong></li>
    <li><strong>Please note that not all schools will have placements available, but we will try our best to match you to a convenient placement.</strong></li>
    <li><strong>We recruit for Counsellors to start in school in January, April or September in line with school term time. Please note the recruitment and onboarding process can take 2-3 months.</strong></li>
    <li><strong>Please only apply for one vacancy as multiple applications are rejected on the system. If successful upon interview, you will have the opportunity to discuss your location preference.</strong></li>
    <li><strong>All successful applicants would need a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) or Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check that is&nbsp;enhanced, checked for&nbsp;children’s and adult’s barred list, and is&nbsp;registered on the Update Service.</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Counsellors&nbsp;on Placement provide emotional and therapeutic support to children and young people aged 4-18 in Place2Be partner schools. As an organisation that has adopted the BACP ethical framework of good practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy, counsellors working within the organisation are dedicated to improving the mental health and well-being of the children they work with.</p>
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    <li>Place2Be provides a high level of support to counsellors on placement through regular supervision, tailored training workshops and offers a well-recognised clinical placement*.</li>
    <li>We provide a comprehensive induction programme and clinical supervision is undertaken at the end of each day.</li>
    <li>We need you to be available for a minimum of one day per week to work in a therapeutic capacity with up to 3 children offering one-to-one counselling.</li>
    <li>Placements are term time only and run for one academic year. There are opportunities for you to stay with us beyond one year.</li>
    <li>You will have the opportunity to attend up to six optional workshops throughout the year which are recognised as continuing professional development time.</li>
    <li>Sessions spent with children are accepted as clinical hours towards professional accreditation, and are recognised by the BACP and UKCP.</li>
    <li>A placement is an excellent stepping stone into a job opportunity and career with Place2Be, over&nbsp;⅔&nbsp;of our clinical staff were once Counsellors on Placement.</li>
    <li>We have places available in our projects in both primary and secondary schools nationwide.</li>
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<p>*<strong>Counting your hours</strong></p>
<p>All clinical hours gained on placement can be used towards accreditation with a body such as BACP and UKCP. However if you need to gain clinical hours for your course, we would strongly advise that you check with your course tutor as to whether child hours are accepted before applying. If your course does not accept child hours but you would like to gain counselling experience of working with Children and Young People, you can still apply for a Place2Be placement as a second placement.</p>
<p><strong>Diversity and Inclusion</strong></p>
<p>Place2Be is committed to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are particularly interested in attracting applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.<br>
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Additionally, for our clinical roles we are particularly keen in attracting male candidates to reflect the diversity of the partner schools and communities we work in.&nbsp;</p>

		
	
		<h2>About You</h2>
	
		
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<p>You will be a fully qualified Counsellor, Therapist or studying towards one of these professions at the following levels:</p>
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    <li>Diploma in Counselling (Level 4 or above). If you are in your first year you will have completed a full academic year Certificate Course in Counselling or the equivalent of 9 - 12 months.</li>
    <li>Degree, MSc or MA in Counselling or Psychotherapy - if you are in your first year you will have relevant experience of direct work with children.</li>
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<p>We are always looking for suitable counsellors on placement, so if you believe you have what it takes to thrive in this challenging, rewarding environment please apply.&nbsp;Please view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification on our website for further details.</p>

		
	
		<h2>About Us</h2>
	
		
			

<p>Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families,&nbsp;teachers&nbsp;and school staff. The charity currently provides an embedded mental health service in 500 UK primary and secondary schools supporting a school community of around 243,000 children and young people.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life.&nbsp; Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the comprehensive CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) system.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
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Through our professional development programme, we are training around 1,200 Counsellors on Placement each year who build their mental health and counselling skills and experience through practice in our partner schools. We also provide a range of professional development programmes on mental health and wellbeing for school leaders, teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people, so we can help to build ‘mentally healthy’ schools and communities where all children can thrive and flourish.</p>
<p>We continue to pilot,&nbsp;trial&nbsp;and explore new ways in which we can develop our practice as well as share learning, expertise and findings from the robust evidence and evaluation we gather.&nbsp;<strong>HRH The&nbsp;Princess of Wales</strong>&nbsp;is our Royal Patron and Place2Be is one of the founding charity partners of Heads Together. We also work collaboratively with a range of charities and expert organisations to leverage best-in-class knowledge and expertise to inform, develop and improve outcomes for the children,&nbsp;families&nbsp;and schools we support.&nbsp;We ask our staff team to share our core values of perseverance, integrity,&nbsp;compassion&nbsp;and creativity, and to have the skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and families.</p>
<p><strong>Our values:</strong></p>
<p>We believe that how we approach our work is as important as the work itself. Our four key values shape everything we do:</p>
<p><strong>Compassion</strong>&nbsp;– We bring empathy and kindness to all we do, to better understand and meet the needs of children and young people, colleagues and other stakeholders.</p>
<p><strong>Integrity</strong>&nbsp;– We demonstrate sound ethical values in all our work, and we are honest, transparent, courageous and authentic.</p>
<p><strong>Perseverance</strong>&nbsp;– We have the courage to continue in the face of adversity and do this with determination to find effective solutions.</p>
<p><strong>Creativity</strong>&nbsp;– We bring an open-minded approach and flexibility to our thinking and actions and enable others to do the same.&nbsp;</p>


		
	

        
            
            
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