Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-8055225-ALD
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Mary's Hospital
- Town
- Sidcup
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
We have a permanent post at Band 8a full-time for a dynamic and creative clinical psychologist working in an innovative community learning disabilities team in Bromley. You will be working with other clinical psychologists and psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary teams. You will have a key leadership and consultation role as a senior psychologist in the team.
The post is based at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup but you may also work across the three boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Bexley. It is essential that you can travel throughout the Oxleas area, using public transport where necessary.
You will be working in a variety of community settings, with individuals, groups, families and staff teams, providing assessment, support and intervention and applying a range of therapeutic approaches. You would be working with other clinical psychologists and psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team, sharing psychological knowledge and ideas and fostering psychological mindedness. You will have a key leadership and consultation role as a senior psychologist in the teams. You will be supervising clinical psychologists and trainees, assistant practitioners and other psychological therapists.
Main duties of the job
- 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 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.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Working for our organisation
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:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We have a thriving learning disability psychology speciality with 27 wte clinical staff working in three community learning disability teams across three boroughs. Group systemic supervision is provided to all psychologists in the service and individual supervision by experienced colleagues. The psychology speciality is a creative and innovative one, encouraging research and service evaluation, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes:
- To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a practitioner psychologist and maintain this registration, including maintaining the standards of conduct, performance and ethics required by HCPC.
- 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 postholder’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, forensic 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 British Psychological Society, the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relevant areas particularly (1) adults with learning disabilities and (2) mental health.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent (e.g. counselling 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
- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with complex needs, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- 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
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups and working with networks of support around a client
Desirable criteria
- 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 etc)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sandra Baum
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 871 5680
- Additional information
For more information about this post, please contact Dr Sandra Baum, consultant clinical psychologist on 0203 871 5680 or [email protected]
Please quote appropriate ref number in all correspondence.
We routinely involve service users in our interview process.
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