Assistant Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	10 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£31,944 - £34,937 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	10 July 2025
Location:	London, SW18 3HU
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7251584/277-7251584-WANDS

Summary

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of offenders within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching.

Specifically, to provide psychological therapy services to service users residing in HMP Wandsworth.

We are looking to recruit three assistant psychologists who will be part of the integrated mental health team within the prison, which provides a range of psychological services from self-help literature to individual and group therapies.

The integrated mental health team work within a trauma informed care model which includes supporting prison colleagues by providing teaching, training and consultation.






Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:


All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.  


You will need to provide: 


Proof of right to work documentation 


Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID


Proof of address documentation 


Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. 


Clinical:
• To undertake psychological assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the prison setting.
• To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects.
• To work with other staff to assess or support service users in the prison and contribute to multidisciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the psychologist/psychological therapist providing supervision.
• To assist in the development of a psychological based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

IT responsibilities (clinical):
• To create graphs or charts to collate or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.
• To assist in producing visual or material or user-friendly information for interventions with clients.

Teaching, training and supervision:
• In common with all assistant psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
• To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
• To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
• To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care.

Management, recruitment and service development:
• To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects with the service as required.
• To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.

Research and service evaluation:
• To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
• To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.


This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Jun 2025

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