Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist (Clinical Psychologist) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £63,665 - £70,887 pro rata pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2026 |
| Location: | Bexleyheath, DA6 8DW |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7957041/277-7957041-CMH |
Summary
We are seeking a qualified clinical psychologist to work across the Bexley Older People’s Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Bexley Memory Service to provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments, and individual and group-based psychological interventions to our client group and their carers.
This two-day a week post is based at the Bexleyheath Centre and involves working alongside colleagues in the well-established multidisciplinary teams, the CMHT recently being awarded as Best Team in Oxleas.
• To provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation, and interventions to clients and their carers both individually and in groups
• To offer advice and consultation on clients’psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and non-professional carers
• To have management and supervision responsibilities of trainees and junior members of the team
• To undertake research and evaluation of the service
• To work as a part of the multi-disciplinary teams which have close links with a wide range of agencies
• The post holder will also be a member of the Older People's Mental Health Psychological Therapies teams and the Directorate Psychological Therapy teams, attending and contributing to meetings, CPD and wider developments and tasks pertaining to Psychological Therapies.
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
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
This advert closes on Monday 25 May 2026
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