Job requirements
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Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills
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.
- Experience
Experience of working in older people’s mental health services, including with people with dementia and their carers
- Experience
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient, and assessment and intervention with patients with a wide variety of neurological deficits.
- Qualifications
Doctoral level training in clinical 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.
- Qualifications
HCPC registration
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
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, dementia etc).
- Experience
Experience of facilitating psychoeducation, skills-based and/or therapeutic groups
- Qualifications
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Job overview
** Previous applicants need not apply **
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. We would welcome applications from qualified clinical psychologists with transferable skills.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist (Clinical Psychologist) with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Dartford, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £63,665 - £70,887 pro rata pa inc. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 15 Sep 2026.
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