This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, innovative and inspiring Psychologist to join our Bridgeways Older Adults Teams. The post holder will be the Psychology Clinical Lead (0.6 WTE) within the Bromley Memory Service, alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, with dedicated time to offering neuropsychological assessments and expertise to the dementia assessment process. The role is varied and involves supporting and developing a range of meaningful post-diagnostic interventions and groups to patients, family and carers.
Working in the Bromley Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (0.2 WTE) there is flexibility to be involved in a range of psychological interventions and exciting initiatives. The post holder will join well-established, friendly and diverse multidisciplinary teams. The position would suit an experienced psychologist looking to develop their skills in senior roles, leadership tasks, supervision, operational and strategic development.
This is a varied role, which includes providing specialist individual, family and group interventions, neuropsychological assessment, as well as contributing to the therapeutic functions of the teams. You will support the teams with oversight and embedding of NHS transformation and exciting developments in more diverse and new psychological roles, and will contribute to service planning and development, including attendance at relevant management meetings. You will be professionally accountable to the Bromley OPMH Head of Psychological Therapies, and specialist clinical supervision will be provided within the OPMH service. You will also be supported by team managers.
As well as service development and clinical governance roles, we welcome and encourage research and audit interests, including co-producing research with our service users through our programme of service user involvement. Supervision and CPD are prioritised in the Trust, with a range of training and specialist supervision opportunities available. Some of the modalities used in the team are CAT, EMDR, Psychodynamic, CBT, ACT and Art Psychotherapy, with access to the relevant specialist supervision. We encourage trauma-informed working, integrated multidisciplinary working and embrace a wide range of modalities and approaches.
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
Professional / Governance
Maintain clinical psychology registration and adhere to professional and NHS codes of conduct.
Ensure accurate, timely and professional clinical documentation.
Comply with relevant Trust policies including confidentiality, risk management, infection control, safeguarding, health & safety, equality and diversity, sustainability and no‑smoking policy.
Clinical
Provide advanced specialist assessments and interventions for older adults in the CMHT and Memory Service.
Offer psychological perspectives and formulations to support multidisciplinary understanding and care planning.
Manage a caseload with autonomous responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge.
Provide expert consultation on risk, safeguarding, diagnosis and formulation.
Leadership & Management
Support strategic and operational service development.
Be responsible for governance of psychological practice and resources.
Lead recruitment activities for psychology roles.
Manage psychology therapy staff within the service.
Provide leadership across multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
Training, Teaching & Supervision
Provide placements and supervision for trainee psychologists.
Deliver training, consultation and supervision to multidisciplinary staff.
Contribute to internal and external teaching programmes.
Research, Evaluation & Service Development
Lead and participate in service audits, evaluations and quality improvement projects.
Use research skills to support evidence‑based practice.
Support and advise staff undertaking research activities.
General Responsibilities
Participate in appraisal, CPD and mandatory training.
Demonstrate Oxleas’ organisational values (“We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care”).
Provide high‑quality customer care and maintain professionalism.
