Principal Psychotherapist / Art Psychotherapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,396 - £80,837 pro rata pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | Orpington, BR6 0JB |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7777973/277-7777973-CMH |
Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Psychotherapist / Art Psychotherapist (Band 8B) to join The Woman’s Service, a specialist psychotherapy service within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust supporting women who are survivors of child sexual abuse. The service is based in the London Borough of Bromley (Orpington), and this post plays a key leadership role in delivering high‑quality, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy within a trauma‑informed framework.
The post holder will provide expert assessments, complex formulations, specialist therapeutic interventions, and clinical leadership within a highly specialised service. They will work closely with colleagues across the referral network and contribute to supervision, consultancy, staff development, and governance.
This post is restricted to female applicants only, as being a woman is a Genuine Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010, due to the specialist nature of the service and the needs of the women accessing it.
Provide highly specialist assessments for women referred to The Woman’s Service, integrating complex clinical information from multiple sources. Formulate and deliver specialist psychotherapeutic treatments using psychoanalytic or psychodynamic models in situations of high emotional complexity. Offer clinical supervision, consultancy, and professional guidance to colleagues, trainees, and honorary therapists. Deliver psychologically informed advice to multi‑disciplinary teams and wider professional networks. Maintain high‑quality clinical records, communication, and risk management in line with Trust policies. Contribute to service development, governance, and evaluation, including audit and research activities. Participate in recruitment, professional development, and general service functioning. Uphold Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust values:We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
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
Clinical Responsibilities
• Deliver specialist psychotherapy assessments and formulations for women referred to the service, using psychoanalytic or psychodynamic frameworks.
• Provide individual psychotherapy and make treatment decisions in highly complex clinical situations.
• Maintain high standards of clinical documentation, risk assessment, safeguarding practice, and communication with referrers and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Offer psychologically informed advice to other professionals to support patient care.
Supervision, Teaching & Consultancy
• Provide clinical supervision, teaching, and professional guidance to team members, trainees, and honorary clinicians.
• Offer specialist consultancy to internal teams and external agencies involved in the care of traumatised or vulnerable women.
Service Development, Research & Governance
• Contribute to service governance, audit, quality improvement, and research aligned with Trust priorities.
• Participate in service development work to enhance clinical pathways and maintain high standards of psychotherapeutic practice.
Professional Requirements
• Maintain registration with UKCP, BPC or HCPC and engage in regular CPD and supervision.
• Uphold Oxleas Trust policies, including confidentiality, equality, safeguarding, infection control, and health & safety.
• Demonstrate commitment to Oxleas values:We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Feb 2026
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