Assistant Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£33,262 - £36,027 pa inc
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, SE18 3RZ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Sept 2026
Closing date:	21 Oct 2026

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Summary

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

This is an exciting opportunity to join specialist teams, the Early Intervention in Schools Team (EIT) in CAMHS & the Integrated Clinical Team (ICT) in Children's Services. The teams offer specialist mental health expertise for CYP experiencing difficulties in behaviour/emotional well-being & vulnerable to mental health difficulties. ICT works alongside Children’s services staff with YP & families open to social care, where YP experience anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, family conflict, gender related distress or trauma experiences. The team offer therapeutic treatments to YP/families. EIT provide training to schools, consultation & brief evidence-based intervention. The post holder will work with clinicians, e.g. Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists & Psychotherapists.

To help support the data collection processes for Children and Young Peoples (CYP-IAPT) within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. To assist in clinically related administration, completion of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work. There will also be opportunities to undertake clinical work under supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist and support the psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care and within the overall framework of the team’s 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:

• We’re Kind

• We’re Fair

• We Listen

• We Care

The roles involve supporting clinical staff in using and interpreting routine outcomes measures in a meaningful way within care pathways, including staff training, supporting the analysis and reporting on clinical outcomes at a team, borough and tri-borough level. Having good IT skills and knowledge of Excel and SPSS would be desirable. Excellent communication skills are necessary to liaise and support clinical staff & teams. An interest in working with children and young people (CYP) is essential.

This advert closes on Monday 5 Oct 2026

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