Assistant Psychologist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to join our Neuropsychiatry Service. The post involves working with adults who have either a functional neurological disorder such as dissociative seizures or have psychiatric complications of a long-term neurological condition such as Multiple Sclerosis., The post holder will work under the supervision of a Senior Clinical Psychologist and/or Consultant Clinical Psychologist to deliver high quality and responsive services in Kent.

Relationships with multidisciplinary colleagues are supportive and include Neuropsychiatrists and specialist Community Psychiatric Nurses.

We work closely with the wider Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Services where there are other Assistant Psychology posts. We have links with the Salomons Clinical Psychology training programme.

The post holder will be located with the other Clinical Psychologists and multidisciplinary team members, who are well established members of the Neuropsychiatry Service.

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The clinical work is undertaken mostly in the outpatient clinic on the Sevenoaks Hospital site or online. The role will involve running psycho-educational therapy groups for people with a variety of symptoms associated with functional neurological conditions using a broadly CBT framework.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

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

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

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Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.