Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Assistant Psychologist

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Job Opportunity at Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to join us in delivering evidence-based Clinical Care Pathways across Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. Grounded in innovative, psychologically informed practice, these pathways deliver high-quality interventions across our Secondary Care Mental Health Services.
As part of our team, you will play a key role in delivering brief, manualised clinical interventions and co-facilitating therapy groups—all under the close supervision and guidance of qualified psychological practitioners.
What We Offer
We are deeply committed to supporting our team members and helping you grow professionally. When you join us, you can expect:
- Exceptional Supervision & Support: Regular, structured supervision to support your clinical development.
- Strong Academic Links: Excellent connections with the Salomons Institute for Clinical Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University, including regular clinical placements for Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
- Clear Career Progression: A supportive environment designed to help you gain the core skills needed to advance your career in mental health and psychological therapies.
- Direct Clinical Work: Participate in the provision of direct clinical work through delivery of manualised psychologically informed structured interventions as part of Psychological Services to adults with mental health difficulties within the community & recovery service line.
- Initial Interventions: Deliver ‘initial interventions’ to people accessing adult mental health services as part of the Clinical Care Pathways in the CMHT. Specific and targeted training will be provided by experienced Psychological Practitioners and all interventions supported by weekly clinical supervision from Psychological Practitioners.
- Structured Therapeutic Interventions: Undertake other structured therapeutic psychological interventions in an identified service or services using own independent initiative within guidelines provided by a qualified psychologist.
- Administration, Audit, and Research: Undertake clinically and service performance-related administration, audit and research projects, teaching and service improvement project work under the professional guidance of a qualified psychologist.
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About Us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).


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Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
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. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join Us
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ona Russell
- Job Title: Interim Consultant Couns Psychol and Clinical Lead
- Email Address: ona.russell@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01304 802076
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