Job Description

The Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Service is one of the largest Neuropsychology Departments in the country. We provide neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation across Kent. We work with a variety of health and social services teams to support the needs of adults with acquired brain injury and those with long-term neurological conditions.



The post is based in the cosmopolitan and vibrant city of Canterbury, which boasts excellent high-speed (one hour) links to London. You will be based within the East Kent Neurorehabilitation Unit at Kent & Canterbury Hospital. A key aspect of this role will be to provide specialist neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation, and to offer psychological therapy to people during their inpatient neurorehabilitation journey.



The wider Neuropsychology service has a strong rehabilitation ethos and members of the service have interests in a range of different therapeutic approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Narrative therapy, mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and systemic approaches.

In this role, you will:

support people who have sustained acquired brain injuries and long-term neurological conditions in an inpatient setting

work collaboratively towards helping people achieve meaningful goals

identify the psychological needs of patients and provide psychological therapy

provide neuropsychological assessments and cognitive rehabilitation

undertake consultative and advisory interventions on the unit

liaise with colleagues across the NHS, Social Care, and voluntary agencies

undertake research and service development projects

contribute to continuing professional development events



Many of our department members are actively involved in teaching and research. There are ample opportunities to teach allied health professionals and in the Salomons Clinical Psychology doctorate. Members of our service receive regular clinical, management and peer supervision and there is a commitment to ongoing training and professional development.



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

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. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.



Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.



At Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.



Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.