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 with community neuropsychology colleagues at Gregory House, St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury. A key aspect of this role will be to provide specialist neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation.
The 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 Behavioral Therapy and systemic approaches. The post will be mainly clinic based but will also involve home visits.
• Working with people with acquired brain injury or long term neurological conditions, and their families, living in East Kent.
• Seeing people referred to the Kent Clinical Neuropsychology Service in one of our clinics (Eureka, Ashford; Newington Road, Ramsgate; Gregory House, Canterbury) or at the person's home.
• Providing neuropsychological assessments
• Providing cognitive rehabilitation.
• Providing evidenced based psychological therapies to support adjustment to diagnosis and symptom management.
• Providing clinical supervision to junior members of staff, including trainee clinical psychologists.
• Undertaking clinical audits and research.
• Many of our department 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.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Oct 2025
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