Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Erith; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist at Band 7 based in Bexley area. The post involves providing a qualified specialist clinical/counselling psychology service across care sectors, including assessment and therapy, and offering expert advice to non-psychologist colleagues and carers.

The role requires active engagement in CPD, professional supervision, and adherence to HCPC and Trust policies, within a multidisciplinary team and wide partner

Qualifications

• Must be HCPC registered and abide by HCPC standards and Trust policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology assessment and therapy to clients across care sectors.
• Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers.
• Contribute to development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service; participate in CPD training and supervision.
• Maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry, reporting, and governance in line with professional codes.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team with close links to a wide range of agencies.

Job description

Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Bexley CAMHS are pleased to be able to offer a full time Clinical or Counselling Psychology post which is available at band 7.

The post holder willprovide a qualified specialist clinical / counselling psychology service to clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.

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 post holder’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 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 HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.

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 new values:

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 specialist 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.

This advert closes on Sunday 22 Nov 2026