Senior Clinical Psychologist

Under the direction of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to contribute to the assessment and psychological treatment of outpatients referred to the West Kent Neuropsychiatry Service. The service provides complex assessment and treatment of functional neurological conditions (e.g. dissociative seizures), and psychiatric complications associated with long term neurological conditions (e.g. multiple sclerosis). The role requires close working and excellent communication with members of the multidisciplinary team as well as patients and their families. It also requires liaison with outside care agencies, health professionals and voluntary services as required.
To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in the neuropsychiatry service, taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in their professional practice. Individual and/or group treatments may be offered to patients.

An interest, or previous experience in neuropsychology and/or neuropsychiatry would be an advantage, as would an interest in mind-body connections and dissociative symptoms.
Neuropsychological assessment skills would be an advantage but not essential. Referrals are often via Neurology and we support people with both functional neurological symptoms, and complex psychiatric problems secondary to long-term neurological conditions.
The post holder will join a team which currently has input from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, two Senior Clinical Psychologist's a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, and specialist CPN's.

Working for our organisation
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.
Our strategy
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.