Senior Clinical Psychologist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join us in the Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Service for Stroke. This post is to work in the Thanet area (Margate & Ramsgate).

The role is a community position involving specialist neuropsychological assessment, cognitive rehabilitation interventions, and psychological therapy. You will support stroke survivors, their families and carers, working closely with colleagues in the Community Neurorehabilitation Teams.

The post is based at Gregory House in Canterbury, co‑located with other colleagues in the service. The trust supports hybrid/flexible working models. You will work closely with a Principal Clinical Psychologist who will provide supervision and informal support. The post would suit someone with previous neuropsychology experience, but we would also consider newly qualified candidates or those wishing to move across from another specialty.

The Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Service has a strong rehabilitation focus and staff are interested in a wide range of therapeutic models, including ACT, CFT, Narrative Therapy and Systemic Family Therapy approaches.

The service is committed to ongoing training and professional development and is linked with the Canterbury Christ Church Clinical Psychology training course.

• Provide systematic specialist clinical neuropsychology services to stroke survivors and their families and carers in the Thanet locality.
• Conduct high‑quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist neuropsychological interventions, exercising autonomous judgment and taking substantial professional responsibility.
• Ensure clinical effectiveness of practice and service delivery by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
• Work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team with the local Community Neurorehabilitation Team.
• Provide regular training placements for trainee clinical psychologists in clinical neuropsychology.

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, caring for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Covering 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 hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

• Experience as a qualified specialist clinical psychologist for a minimum of one year.
• Experience conducting standardised neuropsychological assessments.
• Experience working with people with stroke, acquired brain injuries or other neurological conditions.
• Experience working in a neuropsychology setting.

• Good undergraduate honours degree in Psychology.
• Post‑graduate doctorate‑level training in clinical psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) or equivalent.
• Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Evidence of further CPD/training in stroke, brain injury or neurorehabilitation.

• Ability to comprehend and communicate complex and sensitive information verbally and in writing to diverse audiences, including highly emotive situations and those with impaired communication capacities.
• Ability to analyse and manage complex multi‑factorial clinical information from a range of sources and integrate it into a formulation from various psychological perspectives.
• Ability to organise workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and meeting agreed deadlines.
• Experience working with individuals, couples, families and groups.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice and professional management with this client group and mental health.
• Knowledge of stroke, acquired brain injury and neurorehabilitation approaches.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£55,690 to £62,682 a year (pro‑rata)