Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist (Clinical Psychologist) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking a qualified Clinical Psychologist to work across the Greenwich Older People’s Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Shepherdleas Inpatient Mental Health Unit. This exciting four and a half day a week post will include providing highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions to individuals, families/networks and groups, along with offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

There areopportunities to become involved in a range of activities, including FIP, SCM, Service User Involvement and Community Engagement initiatives, and we would be keen to hear about the successful candidates therapeutic interests. You will be joining teams with well established Psychology provisions and have access to a range of specialist supervision forums available, including Neuropsychological, EMDR, CBT, FIP, and Systemic Therapy

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 provide regular Reflective Practice Meetings to the ward team.

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 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 Sunday 21 Jun 2026

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