Assistant Psychologist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Denbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to work at HMP Channings Wood. This role involves providing psychological assessments and interventions under supervision and contributing to service improvements within a trauma-informed care framework. The ideal candidate will have training in psychological assessment and interventions, possess strong teamwork skills, and demonstrate a commitment to professional development. The position offers flexible working patterns with a focus on enhancing the mental health of offenders in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience or training in psychological assessment and interventions under supervision.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Commitment to professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions for offenders.
• Deliver psychological therapy services within the mental health team.
• Support prison colleagues through teaching and consultation.
• Contribute to service improvements within the prison setting.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Psychological interventions

Team collaboration

Independent working

Trauma-informed care

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast-paced work environment? We are expanding recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join our friendly team at HMP Channings Wood.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

As part of our mental health team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

20 hours per week - flexible working pattern available but ideally will work 2x shifts one week and 3x shifts the next

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance the professional psychological care of offenders within the service. This will include providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures and to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching.
• Provide psychological therapy services to service users residing in HMP Channings Wood as part of the integrated mental health team within the prisons, which provide a range of psychological services from self-help literature to individual and group therapies.
• Work within a trauma-informed care model which includes supporting prison colleagues by providing teaching, training and consultation.
• Be part of the integrated mental health team’s delivery of care within the prison setting and contribute to the development and implementation of service improvements.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Experience or training in psychological assessment and interventions under supervision (within a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist).
• Ability to work both as part of a team and independently within professional guidelines and policies.
• Commitment to trauma-informed care and to professional development.

Additional information

Interviews will take place on Monday 23rd February 2026 face to face at HMP Channings Wood. There will be no online interviews for this role.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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. Our wider 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. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. 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

Contact for further details

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Khyati Patel | Job title: Head of Psychological Therapies | Email: [e-mail] | Telephone: [phone]