# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinical-psychologist/ef8f184f-62be-4db3-8a43-155291c3b6da - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinical-psychologist/ef8f184f-62be-4db3-8a43-155291c3b6da.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Dartford - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 pro rata inc - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term) - **Employment type:** Part time - 26.25 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T07:02:09.966Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Learning_Disabilities/Adult_Learning_Disabilities-v8054854 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8054854?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have a fixed term post at Band 8a for a dynamic & creative clinical psychologist working in an innovative community learning disabilities team in Greenwich. You will be working with other clinical psychologists & psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams. You will have a key leadership & consultation role as a senior psychologist in the team. The post is based at the Woolwich Centre, Woolwich, but you may also work across the three boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich & Bexley. It is essential that you can travel throughout the Oxleas area, using public transport where necessary. You will be working in a variety of community settings, with individuals, groups, families & staff teams, providing assessment, support & intervention & applying a range of therapeutic approaches. You will work with other clinical psychologists & psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team, sharing psychological knowledge & ideas & fostering psychological mindedness. You will have a key leadership & consultation role as a senior psychologist in the teams. You will be supervising clinical psychologists & trainees, assistant practitioners & other psychological therapists. ### Main duties of the job - To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. - To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. - To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. - To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We have a thriving learning disability psychology speciality with 27 wte clinical staff working in 3 community learning disability teams across 3 boroughs. Group systemic supervision is provided to all psychologists in the service & individual supervision by experienced colleagues. The psychology speciality is a creative & innovative one, encouraging research & service evaluation, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes: - To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a practitioner psychologist and maintain this registration, including maintaining the standards of conduct, performance and ethics required by HCPC. - To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder’s professional and service manager(s). - To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology, forensic and related disciplines. - To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and Trust policies and procedures. - To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relevant areas particularly (1) adults with learning disabilities and (2) mental health. ## Job Details We have a fixed term post at Band 8a for a dynamic & creative clinical psychologist working in an innovative community learning disabilities team in Greenwich. You will be working with other clinical psychologists & psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams. You will have a key leadership & consultation role as a senior psychologist in the team. The post is based at the Woolwich Centre, Woolwich, but you may also work across the three boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich & Bexley. It is essential that you can travel throughout the Oxleas area, using public transport where necessary. You will be working in a variety of community settings, with individuals, groups, families & staff teams, providing assessment, support & intervention & applying a range of therapeutic approaches. You will work with other clinical psychologists & psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team, sharing psychological knowledge & ideas & fostering psychological mindedness. You will have a key leadership & consultation role as a senior psychologist in the teams. You will be supervising clinical psychologists & trainees, assistant practitioners & other psychological therapists. ## Job Description To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. ## Responsibilities We have a thriving learning disability psychology speciality with 27 wte clinical staff working in 3 community learning disability teams across 3 boroughs. Group systemic supervision is provided to all psychologists in the service & individual supervision by experienced colleagues. The psychology speciality is a creative & innovative one, encouraging research & service evaluation, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes: To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a practitioner psychologist and maintain this registration, including maintaining the standards of conduct, performance and ethics required by HCPC. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder’s professional and service manager(s). To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology, forensic and related disciplines. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and Trust policies and procedures. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relevant areas particularly (1) adults with learning disabilities and (2) mental health. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with complex needs, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. **Desirable** - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent (e.g. counselling psychology), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. - Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists. - Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist. ### Skills/Abilities/Knowledge **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups and working with networks of support around a client. **Desirable** - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10344619) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.