Senior Specialist Psychological Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 pro rata pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 February 2026 |
| Location: | Eltham, SE9 5AB |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7726996/277-7726996-CMH |
Summary
Greenwich Time to Talk NHS Talking Therapies is seeking to recruit a Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist to improve access, experience and recovery rates for clients aged 65 and above. We welcome applicants with specialist knowledge of older adult psychology and a passion for meeting the needs of this client group in NHS Talking Therapies through best practice, innovation, and formulation driven approaches.
The successful candidate will join a well established and high performing NHS Talking Therapies Service, supporting Greenwich residents, aged 16 and over, seeking to overcome symptoms of anxiety and depression. The service offer a range of NICE recommended interventions to clients, and opportunities for continued professional development to staff.
The successful post holder will have a robust understanding of formulation driven psychological principles for older adults. They will lead our interface with Older Adult Secondary Care Mental Health Services and will offer specialist psychological assessments and interventions to service users referred to our service aged 65 and above.
The postholder will be motivated to further support the service to best meet the needs of older adults through evidenced skill in supervision, consultation and training, innovative service development, sound referral management, and excellent communication with clients, team members and relevant services.
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
The successful post holder will:
Demonstrate best practice in delivering and supervising psychological assessment, formulation and interventions for clients aged 65 and above.
Lead the interface between our service and Older Adult Community Mental Health Services.
Be responsible for expanding on our existing established older adult Psychology pathway within Greenwich Time to Talk.
Disseminate relevant knowledge and skills to the wider team through training and consultation.
Support regular referral management and screening of referrals.
Supervise qualified members of the team and trainees/assistants.
Support the service to maintain safe and stable waiting lists.
Engage in community networking to help increase referrals of clients aged 65 and above.
Lead in promoting the service to secondary care and third sector organisations supporting older adults.
Oversee evaluation and audit within this pathway, supported by team members.
This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Feb 2026
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