Assistant Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£33,262 - £36,027 pa inc
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sidcup, DA14 6LT
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	16 Sept 2026
Closing date:	16 Oct 2026

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Summary

We have a permanent post at Band 4 full time for a dynamic and creative assistant clinical psychologist. You would be working with the Bromley Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) based at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. 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. The post will be based in Sidcup, but will require work in various locations across Bromley, and some work in all the three boroughs covered by Oxleas. You will ideally have a car available, but it is essential that you can travel throughout the Oxleas area, using public transport where necessary.

Individual supervision will be provided by experienced psychologists and nurses. The psychology speciality is a creative and innovative one, encouraging research and service evaluation, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes.

The psychology speciality and Oxleas value highly the involvement and expertise of service users – from their being part of interviews for all posts, through to projects to enable their voices to be heard and to influence services.

For more information about this post, please contact Dr Sandra Baum, Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Bromley and Head of LD psychological therapies in Oxleas on 0203 871 5680 or sandra.baum@nhs.net

JOB SUMMARY

• To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist

• Working independently on a day-to-day basis according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

• To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

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

• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through:• (1) active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes in consultation with the post holder’s professional and team/operational manager(s), and

• (2) adherence to any local specialty standards.

• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the Health and Care Professions Council, British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.

• To prepare test materials and visual aids as required. To undertake specific administrative duties as required.

• To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time by their Psychology Manager and Team Leader (if this is not the Psychology Manager).

• In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

• To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Sep 2026

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