Assistant Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,199 - £34,876 pro rata pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2026 |
| Location: | Northumberland Heath, Erith, DA8 3EE |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7932183/277-7897191-CYP-A |
Summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated psychology graduate who is keen to gain experience in order to progress towards applied training in clinical psychology. The post is focused upon undertaking of young people attending special schools in Bexley and identified as benefitting from as assessment for learning disability.
The role involves, under supervision, undertaking cognitive and functional assessments with the young person, school staff and parents, interpreting the assessments, writing and feeding back reports. Having experience of administering, scoring and interpreting Weschler Intelligence Scales would be an advantage. Excellent time management skills are essential to manage the throughput of assessments while working part time. be able to liaise and support clinical staff and teams, and an interest in working with children and young people is essential. The post will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist.
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
Bexley CAMHS is a friendly, busy and thriving service, regarded as an accessible and effective service. Staff that work in Bexley CAMHS describe a warm and caring environment across the whole service. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from individuals from BAME backgrounds to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities with whom we work. We are based in a purposely designed building at Park Crescent (Erith Hospital Site), Park Crescent, Erith DA8 3EE. The site is easily accessible from Kent, SE and East London, as well as parts of Essex and Surrey. There is parking on site and nearby streets. There are also excellent public transport links including a direct train to Erith from London Bridge in under 40 mins.
Please see attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Apr 2026
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