About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and within a friendly and welcoming psychology team. We provide a highly specialist psychology service to clients of the Intensive Case Management for Psychosis Team (ICMP), a community mental health team providing support to people with a primary diagnosis of a psychotic disorder or bipolar disorder. Psychology is seen as central to providing formulation driven treatment and supporting team development. There is an emphasis on relational and trauma informed care as well as systemic working.
The role includes providing highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment including CBT for Psychosis, Family Interventions, and trauma focused therapies. In addition to direct client work, the role incorporates offering consultation, support, and training to MDT colleagues and to clients' personal and professional networks.
All of the psychosis teams within Oxleas are currently undergoing a redesign process, with the new service model commencing in August 2026. The ICMP team will be moving to a Care Teams Approach, which will include more dedicated assertive outreach teams. Whilst there will be no major changes in how the psychology service in ICMP operates and its staffing, this post does present an exciting opportunity with some flexibility to shape how this role and the psychology team functions and best serves the broader ICMP team.
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist psychology service to clients of the Intensive Case Management for Psychosis Team (ICMP). To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment including CBT for Psychosis, Family Interventions, and trauma focused therapies. In addition to direct client work, the role incorporates offering joint working, consultation, support, and training to MDT colleagues and to clients' personal and professional networks, and supervising trainee clinical psychologists or other junior members of the psychology team. The role involvesworking assertively to engage clients and promote social inclusion and recovery, and to participate in early detection or relapse.
It is a requirement for this post that the post holder develop specialist skills in undertaking therapy with people with psychosis, and as such it is expected that, subject to available places, they will complete the year long CBT for Psychosis top up training, commencing in January 2027. Following this there will be training opportunities to develop specialist competencies in other evidence-based models - e.g. Family Interventions for Psychosis and EMDR. There are also opportunities to undertake, or develop skills in neuropsychological assessments, and be involved in our family therapy clinic (without the need for any specialist systemic training, although this is very welcome).
About us
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
Job description Job responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
Person Specification
registration and qualifications Essential
HCPC, BABCP or UKCP accreditation
Desirable
pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, family interventions in psychosis, and/or other fields of applied psychology
work experience Essential
experience of working in a community mental health setting
Desirable
experience of CBT with clients experiencing psychosis experience of working with carers and families
MDT working Essential
experience of working in a multidisciplinary mental health team
Desirable
experience of offering consultation to MDT staff, including team formulations of clients and teaching/training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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 UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Erith Centre
Park Crescent
Erith
DA8 3EE
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)