Overview
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).
An experienced forensic, clinical, or counselling psychologist/psychotherapist is required to join a strong multi-disciplinary team in a community Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway service providing specialist care to men and women who have personality difficulties, mental health needs, neurodiversity and forensic histories.
The role will be primarily clinical, although it is hoped that the individual will actively pursue research and evaluation within the forensic field and contribute to the provision of supervision and training to other psychologists and professions.
You will be joining a diverse and dynamic multi-disciplinary team including psychology, occupational therapy, social work and probation staff who are actively engaged with the development of trauma informed, recovery centred best practice in forensic mental health.
Responsibilities
* The OPD pathway includes the Psychologically Informed and Planned Environment (PIPE) Unit at Fleming House in Maidstone, a team of psychologists undertaking case consultation, formulation and joint working in the probation offices across Kent and the highly regarded Kent Chiron Community IIRMS (Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service).
* The main task is to provide specialist consultation/formulation and supervision to the Probation Service in the Canterbury and North Kent (Medway) PDU for their work with offenders with severe and complex personality disorders.
* Provide specialist consultation/formulation and supervision to the Probation Service – East/West Kent PDU for their work with offenders with severe and complex personality disorders.
* Undertake work with the Probation Service – East/West Kent PDU for offenders with severe and complex personality disorders. To record and submit performance data in a timely fashion.
* Undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychology interventions in these services, taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in their professional practice.
* Ensure the clinical effectiveness of one's own practice and of service functioning by undertaking research and development activities relevant to the service area.
* Be regularly responsible for providing supervision to trainee psychologists in this specialism.
About KMPT and the Workplace
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 and Vision
Our strategy: Our mission is what we set out to do every day. We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people. Our vision: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Recruitment and Role Details
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The job requires travel to different probation offices, working with probation staff who are managing high risk of harm clients. There is a psychological impact from the work and robust self-care and commitment to supervision opportunities are required.
The role requires the processing of a high volume of information and the capacity to summarise into an accessible case formulation.
Effectively provide clinical/forensic psychology services to a range of other agencies and to develop and maintain the forensic psychological service with colleagues to ensure it is seen as a centre of excellence in its field.
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
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).
At KMPT, 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.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025
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