Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	29 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 September 2025
Location:	Newton Abbot, TQ12 6DW
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7439706/277-7439706-CHAN

Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a Psychologist or Specialist Psychological Therapist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare teams have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. Our Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well regarded specialty. Psychologists are highly valued within the trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative.

Join us in a stimulating role where we are seeking a dynamic and passionate psychologist who has the skills required to work within a trauma-informed care service

We welcome applications from newly qualified; Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologists, CBT Therapists, Systemic, Arts or Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists or those close to obtaining qualified status

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
This is a maternity cover position based at HMP Channings Wood, available from the end of January 2026, where you will work within the Mental Health team, consisting of psychological therapists and multi-professional mental health colleagues to embed psychologically informed care in the service.
You will provide a specialist psychological therapies service to offenders in emotional distress in HMP Channings Wood, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
You will promote an environment in which therapeutic relationships facilitate safety and change, by offering psychological perspectives and emotional support to nursing teams, and promoting psychological thinking in teams. You should have interests in working with personality difficulties and complex trauma, including providing direct psychological assessments and interventions, and working in mutli- disciplinary and multi-agency contexts.

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
• To travel to clinical venues, training activities and meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow Trust policies relating to its management.
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations of people in distress or in crisis and who may be abusive and to support others involved in such situations.
• To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics or weekend working, within the overall Job Plan.
• To be proficient in the use of IT for purposes such as email, electronic calendar, intranet, video calls and electronic clinical records.
• To be familiar with word processing, database and statistical packages, and to use such packages appropriately as necessary.
• To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic clinical records and report writing, in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues pertaining to the client group.
• To provide clinical supervision to designated assistant psychologists.
• Provide supervision to students and trainees and to multi-disciplinary colleagues delivering psychological interventions.
• To support recruitment of assistant psychologists to the service.
• For those line managing, to ensure local standards are implemented for the allocation and review of work, job planning, review of performance, sickness management and initial stages of grievance or disciplinary action.
• To oversee quality line management and supervision within the team structure, ensuring that staff and trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
• To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training of staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. This may include work with the Criminal Justice System and Children’s Services.

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&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. 


 


Address History: 


5 years address history will be needed.  


Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. 


Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.


 


In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants


If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).



This advert closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025

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