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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p></p><p>Oxleas are seeking to recruit to a highly motivated, Band 8a clinical/counselling psychologist or CBT therapist to join our Greenwich team as Maternity Cover.It is an exciting time to join the team as it is a burgeoning and innovative field for perinatal psychology. Our Perinatal team offers a unique opportunity to develop skills in both adult mental health and also to develop skills in parent infant and family work. It is an ideal opportunity for psychologist with an interest in attachment, developmental psychology, infant mental health and working with family systems.</p> <p>The trust wide service is based at Queen Mary's hospital and consists of a multidisciplinary team of professionals including consultant psychiatrists, specialist perinatal nurses, clinical psychologists, CBT therapists, nursery nurses and OTs. We offer a community service for pregnant and postnatal women with severe and complex mental health difficulties. The team has close links with other services, including IAPT, secondary care mental health teams and maternity as well as third sector organisations. We work collaboratively with other services (eg maternity service and health visiting) and with experts by experience to continue to provide high quality care and are committed to ensure excellent outcomes for women and their families.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p></p><p>Main Clinical Duties;</p>
<p>The main clinical work undertaken is to provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for mothers and their babies and families in the community. The post holder will also offer clinical supervision to more junior staff and trainees.</p>
<p>The post holder will be involved in delivering evidence-based individual and group-based interventions. The psychological therapies team include clinical and counselling psychologists, as well as CBT therapists. The successful applicant will be part of a friendly and supportive team. There is an established reflective practice space for the whole team as well as regular individual supervision provided by the senior psychologist. Opportunities to develop supervision skills are consistently available and Oxleas has a longstanding relationship with clinical and counselling doctorate programs in taking trainees and developing the wider workforce.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p></p><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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:</p> <ul>  <li>We're Kind</li>  <li>We're </li>  <li>We Listen</li>  <li>We Care</li> </ul>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>31 December 2025</p>

  
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    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
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      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
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      £61,631 to £68,623 a year
      
        pro rata pa inc
      
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  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>277-7696763-CMH</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Queen Marys Hospital</p>
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      <p>Sidcup</p>
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      <p>DA14 6LT</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
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<li>To be responsible for the day to day management of psychological provision to the team. They will identify areas for development or challenges and work closely with the clinical leads, operational manager and senior psychologists to implement and address these.</li>
<li>To operate as an integrated member of the team, placing the patient at the centre of service planning and delivery.</li>
<li>To bring a psychological perspective to the work of the team. To develop and support the psychosocial work of other staff through teaching, training supervision and consultation.</li>
<li>To provide psychosocial assessment, formulation and interventions to patients.</li>
<li>To promote and facilitate psychological capability within the team and to promote psychosocial interventions within the teams. To provide specialist advice to the teams and voluntary sector agencies concerning the assessment, treatment and management of patients accessing team.</li>
<li>To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.</li>
<li>To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc). Follow defined practices and procedures under the management and co-ordination of a senior psychologist.</li>
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<li>To be responsible for the day to day management of psychological provision to the team. They will identify areas for development or challenges and work closely with the clinical leads, operational manager and senior psychologists to implement and address these.</li>
<li>To operate as an integrated member of the team, placing the patient at the centre of service planning and delivery.</li>
<li>To bring a psychological perspective to the work of the team. To develop and support the psychosocial work of other staff through teaching, training supervision and consultation.</li>
<li>To provide psychosocial assessment, formulation and interventions to patients.</li>
<li>To promote and facilitate psychological capability within the team and to promote psychosocial interventions within the teams. To provide specialist advice to the teams and voluntary sector agencies concerning the assessment, treatment and management of patients accessing team.</li>
<li>To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.</li>
<li>To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc). Follow defined practices and procedures under the management and co-ordination of a senior psychologist.</li>
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        <li>Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.</li>
        
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        <li>Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist</li>
        
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        <li>Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.</li>
        
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          <li>Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.</li>
          
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
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      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
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          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Queen Marys Hospital</p>
      <p></p>
      <p>Sidcup</p>
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      <p>DA14 6LT</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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          <p>Queen Marys Hospital</p>
          <p></p>
          <p>Sidcup</p>
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          <p>DA14 6LT</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="http://oxleas.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

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