# Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist/Psychotherapist

**Company**: Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Dartford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £49387.00 to £56515.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Are you an enthusiastic and energetic Psychologist or Psychotherapist looking for a rewarding role in Acute Mental Health?

We are seeking a compassionate clinician to join our dynamic service. In this supportive, fast-paced environment, you will have ample space to grow your therapeutic and systemic skills while bringing creative, evidence-based ideas to patient care. Working at the heart of our service, you will deliver high-quality psychological interventions, foster strong reflective practices for our staff, and act as a key liaison to support smooth patient transitions between services.

**Main duties of the job**

- Clinical Assessment & Treatment: Deliver specialist psychological assessments, individual treatments, and psychological formulations tailored to acute inpatient needs.

- Group Interventions: Facilitate evidence-based group work, including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)-informed skills groups and structured patient support sessions.

- MDT Consultation & Systemic Support: Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team, offering psychological consultation, advice, and systemic insights to guide holistic care.

- Staff Support & Reflective Practice: Lead reflective practice sessions and case discussions for ward staff, helping the team process complex care environments and maintain professional well-being.

- Service Development & Innovation: Contribute to creative, evidence-based improvements in how our care is delivered, bringing new ideas to team processes and ward-based groups.

- Liaison & Service Transitions: Build strong working relationships across internal and external teams to ensure safe, seamless transitions for patients moving between services.

- Family & Carer Engagement: Provide psychological guidance and intervention formats that involve families, carers, and wider care networks where appropriate.

**Benefits**

- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum, plus High Cost Area allowance

- High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance: 5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,346 per year and a maximum payment of £2,270 per year

**Requirements**

- HCPC/UKCP registered

- Doctoral level training in psychology (desirable)

- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management

- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress

- Excellent communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- psychological assessment
- therapeutic skills
- communication skills
- reflective practice

### Nice to have
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- psychosis
- EUPD
- biopolar

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