Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Woolwich is seeking a clinical or counselling psychologist to join their community psychosis pathway team. The ideal candidate will deliver psychological interventions for clients with psychosis or bipolar disorder and work within a multi-disciplinary team. Applicants should have substantial experience in adult mental health settings and a registered doctorate in clinical psychology. This position offers opportunities for professional development and supervision.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of working in adult mental health settings.
• Experience with clients having psychosis or bipolar disorder.
• Ability to provide clinical placements for trainees.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients.
• Implement psychological treatment and management plans.
• Evaluate treatment options and monitor client progress.
• Act as care coordinator when appropriate.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Psychological assessments

Multi-disciplinary team collaboration

Risk assessment

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Registered with the Health Professions Council

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical or counselling psychologist with substantial experience of working in adult mental health settings to join our community psychosis pathway.

We welcome applicants who enjoy working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and are passionate about equal opportunities and client‑centred care. You will lead on the delivery of psychological interventions for people with a diagnosis of psychosis or bipolar disorder, including groups, family and systemic interventions, and cognitive‑behavioural therapy.

You will work closely with psychologists and psychological therapists in a supportive and innovative team, as well as other psychology professionals across the service, and will have regular supervision and access to trust‑wide professional networks.

Key responsibilities

1. Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to Greenwich Intensive Case Management for Psychosis Team, integrating data from psychological and neuropsychological tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, structured observations and semi‑structured interviews.
2. Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and methods evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
3. Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
4. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
5. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically‑based standard care plans.
6. Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically‑based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
8. Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA, including clients, their carers, referring agents and other members of the care network.
10. Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care, and monitor progress during the course of both uni‑ and multi‑disciplinary care.
11. Provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience.
12. Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
13. Continue to gain wider post‑qualification experience of clinical psychology above that provided within the principal service area.
14. Develop skills in the area of professional post‑graduate teaching, training and supervision, and provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
15. Contribute to the pre‑ and post‑qualification teaching of relevant healthcare staff.
16. Contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams’ operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
17. Advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
18. Utilise theory, evidence‑based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
19. Undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
20. Undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

General duties

1. Maintain registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
2. 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.
3. Contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field.
4. 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.
5. Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both community and acute mental health.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025.