Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	08 April 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£63,665 - £70,887 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 May 2026
Location:	Dartford, DA2 7AF
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7901280/277-7901280-FOR

Summary

Due to the nature of being a small, specialist service, we are seeking a candidate who will work on site full-time.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as Highly Specialist Psychologist / Psychological Therapist at a small, specialist psychological service at the William Morris Centre. The William Morris Centre is a community psychological service, working with adults who exhibit complex emotional and relational problems that cause harm to others. The service provides psychological assessment and intervention utilising therapies such as Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) and EMDR. There is opportunity for family and couples work (adult only). There is also a social inclusion provision. The William Morris Centre is co-commissioned by the forensic and general adult mental health directorates in Oxleas. While located in the forensic directorate, there is a close working relationship with general adult community services in the Trust.

We are seeking a candidate who is passionate about working to reducing violence and sexual harm while improving the lives of service users. This is a service highly valued by the people who use it and we seek candidates who are energised by a role that combines clinical practice and leadership skills.


• Having a senior presence at the service under supervision of the service lead.
• Provide psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to individuals.
• Provide highly specialist advice and consultation to referrers.
• Utilise research skills in audit and other research and development activities.
• Supervise and direct the work of assistant and trainee psychologists as required.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures, and the department's objectives.

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 associated with the service.
• Senior presence at the service, to support and manage any risk issues as they arise.
• To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
• To provide specialist consultation to other professionals in health and probation.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
• To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
• To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
• To undertake risk assessment, risk monitoring and risk management for individual clients in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory agencies as appropriate.
• Liaison with other relevant services in health and probation.
• Implement outcome measurement as determined by the local service.
• Attend and contribute to psychological therapies and directorate meetings and forums.
• Lead on research and quality improvement projects.
• Supervise pre-qualified staff.


This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Apr 2026

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