Psychologist/Psychotherapist/Psychological Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS healthcare provider is seeking a Psychological Therapist to join the Greenwich ADAPT team. The role requires expertise in mental health therapies such as MBT and CBT, as well as experience in a multidisciplinary environment. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, implementing treatment plans, and contributing to team strategies. This is an opportunity to work with diverse modalities in a supportive setting, aimed at improving patient care in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Interest in mental health and interpersonal difficulties.
• Training in psychological therapies.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments for clients.
• Formulate and implement treatment plans.
• Evaluate treatment options and manage care.

Skills

Mentalisation-based therapy

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Art therapy

Education

Relevant degree in psychology or psychotherapy

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Psychological Therapist to join Greenwich ADAPT (Anxiety, Depression, Affective disorders, Personality disorders & Trauma), a secondary care multidisciplinary service providing place-based care for people living in the Borough of Greenwich.

You will have a passion for working in multidisciplinary teams supporting people with emotional regulation and interpersonal difficulties. We are particularly interested in candidates with interest, experience and/or training in mentalisation-based therapy (MBT) as the successful candidate will join our MBT team. Broader groupwork or group analytic skills are also welcome.

You will join a dynamic and skilled Psychological Therapies Team comprised of psychologists, psychotherapists, cognitive behavioural therapists, art therapist, assistant psychologist, a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner, as well as trainees. The service offers a range of modalities including MBT (Mentalisation-based therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapist), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), art therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and MBCT (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy). The team also work closely with the wider MDT to provide Structured Clinical Management (SCM). New developments this year include the planned launch of a comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) programme, and the service is acting as a site for a randomised controlled trial evaluating a trauma focused adaptation of MBT.

The role involves a variety of duties including taking a team’s approach, attendance and offering of a psychological perspective in MDT meetings, brief psychoeducation groups (8 weeks), longer term groups (up to 18 months) as well as opportunities for individual work (some brief and some up to 12 months).

Organisation and Context

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 values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Clinical responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Greenwich ADAPT teams based on the integration of data from psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in care.
• Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems and offending behaviour, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based methods across the full range of care settings.
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, individually and in synthesis, refining formulations using different explanatory models and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluate and decide on treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors related to historical and developmental processes.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
• Contribute to a psychologically based framework or understanding and care across settings and agencies.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and advise other professionals on psychological aspects of risk.
• Act as care coordinator where appropriate, including planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA with clients, carers, referring agents and others in the network of care.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner about assessment, formulation and treatment plans and monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025