Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE18 4QH |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7432353/277-7432353-AAC |
Summary
To provide a highly-specialist psychology service to adult mental health clients of Shrewsbury and Maryon wards. Providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.
• To maintain registration with the Health Professions Council as aClinical Psychologist or with the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapists.
• To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highestprofessional standards of practice, through active participation in internal andexternalCPD traininganddevelopmentprogrammes.
• To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychologywithin the service area and contribute across the service by exercising theskills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regularprofessionalsupervisionandappraisalandmaintaininganactiveengagementwith current developments in the field of clinical psychology and relateddisciplines.
• To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keepingincluding electronic data entry and recording, report writing and theresponsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance withprofessional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, HealthProfessions CouncilandTrustpoliciesandprocedures.
• Tomaintainuptodateknowledgeoflegislation,nationalandlocalpoliciesandissuesin relationto both thespecificclientgroup andmentalhealth.
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
Managementresponsibilities
Responsiblefor:
• AssistantPsychologists,GraduatePsychologists.
• Trainee clinical psychologists
• Teaching, training and supervision of members of other disciplinesonpsychologicaltheory&practice andpsychosocialinterventions
• To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listingprocess and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees andqualifiedclinicalpsychologists.
• Tocontribute totheoverallmanagementandfunctioningof theservice.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operationalpoliciesandservices,throughthedeploymentofprofessionalskillsin research, service evaluation and audit.
• Toadvisebothserviceandprofessionalmanagementonthoseaspectsofthe service where psychological and/or organizational matters need addressing.
• Tomanagetheworkloadsofassistantandtraineeclinicalpsychologists,withinthe framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
• InvolvementinHRpolicies.
• Involvementinrecruitment.
Leadership
Accountable to:
• Operationally - Psychology Lead/ Mental Health TeamManager
• Professional Lead
• Responsibleforthedevelopmentofmorejuniorpsychologicaltherapystaff.
• Participateinservicedevelopment.
• To contribute to the provision of a psychological therapies service to the Greenwich Acute Inpatient wards.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to Acute Inpatient wards based upon the appropriate use,interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety ofsources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-reportmeasures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in theclient’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatmentand/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon anappropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employingmethodsofprovenefficacy, across thefullrangeofcare settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawingupondifferentexplanatorymodelsandmaintaininganumberofprovisionalhypotheses.
• TodeliverNICEapproved psychological therapies.
• Tofacilitategroupsforclientsandcarers.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Sep 2025
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