Job summary
We are recruiting an experienced and innovative Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide clinical and professional leadership within the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Project (RAMHP). Working alongside the team manager, the post holder will lead the development and delivery of psychological interventions, offer highly specialist clinical input, and provide consultation, supervision, and reflective practice to the wider team.
RAMHP is an Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust service supporting people sleeping rough across Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich. The project works closely with non-profit organisations and local services to strengthen pathways, fill gaps, and ensure homeless individuals are rapidly identified, assessed, supported, and directed towards sustained recovery.
The service enhances existing provision as part of a broader homeless wellbeing pathway, offering access to Oxleas' training, supervision, and Quality Improvement resources. Funded through NHS England's Long-Term Plan, RAMHP aligns with the Greater London Authority's homelessness priorities, including reducing the number of new rough sleepers, preventing repeat homelessness, supporting non-UK nationals, improving partnership working, ensuring better outcomes after hospital or prison discharge, meeting physical and mental health needs, increasing access to mental health services, expanding appropriate accommodation options, and strengthening data collection and use.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide skilled and experienced leadership to Oxleas RAMHP, overseeing the provision and development of the psychological interventions and wider psychosocial and trauma-informed practice in the team. The post will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to service users of RAMHP and their support networks (including families and carers).
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatment.
To provide consultation and reflective practice and incident debriefs to the service and to facilitate team working, psychologically informed practice, trauma-informed care and appropriate treatment pathways to optimise service user journey and experience across service transitions.
The post will also involve close organisational liaison with the wider Oxleas mental health system and third sector partners.
The post holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the teams. To contribute to the overall management of the service.
See attached Job Description for a full list of duties.
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 theBractonCentre, 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:
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We're Kind
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We're Fair
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We Listen
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We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
To line manage and supervise psychological therapists, lived experience practitioners and pre-qualified psychological therapists who are directly employed by the London Pathways Partnership, and to liaise with the line managers of those employed in split posts.
To develop service user involvement and lived experience practitioner roles in the service.
To interpret policies and guidance for application in the London Pathways Partnership and be responsible for policy implementation.
Responsibility for quality and performance of the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group, overseeing completion of quarterly and annual monitoring reports as well as clinical audits, where relevant to the role.
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group.
To be responsible to the operational lead for workforce planning, including staff engagement, fair recruitment, professional appraisal and staff continuing professional development activities.
To work closely with the administrator, psychological therapists and operational leads to ensure there are efficient administrative systems in place to effectively manage referrals, waiting lists, and recording of clinical activity and outcomes.
To support the budget holder for the service to manage the specialty within the specified budget.
To initiate audit, policy and service development and research activities within the service to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality and financially efficient service with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment and best clinical practice.
To interpret policies and guidance for application in the service and be responsible for policy development and implementation
To initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of services in the service and in partner services.
To ensure the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
To participate in, or lead when appropriate, Trust and Directorate strategic development and implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines), through membership of committees and/or working parties.
In partnership with professional and operational leads, to be responsible for service development and expansion, following best practice policy and guidance and local organisational priorities and to lead on service innovation and evaluation.
To be responsible for setting and implementing clinical governance standards within the service and ensure that these are maintained and improved.
To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To line manage and supervise psychological therapists, lived experience practitioners and pre-qualified psychological therapists who are directly employed by the London Pathways Partnership, and to liaise with the line managers of those employed in split posts.
To develop service user involvement and lived experience practitioner roles in the service.
To interpret policies and guidance for application in the London Pathways Partnership and be responsible for policy implementation.
Responsibility for quality and performance of the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group, overseeing completion of quarterly and annual monitoring reports as well as clinical audits, where relevant to the role.
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group.
To be responsible to the operational lead for workforce planning, including staff engagement, fair recruitment, professional appraisal and staff continuing professional development activities.
To work closely with the administrator, psychological therapists and operational leads to ensure there are efficient administrative systems in place to effectively manage referrals, waiting lists, and recording of clinical activity and outcomes.
To support the budget holder for the service to manage the specialty within the specified budget.
To initiate audit, policy and service development and research activities within the service to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality and financially efficient service with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment and best clinical practice.
To interpret policies and guidance for application in the service and be responsible for policy development and implementation
To initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of services in the service and in partner services.
To ensure the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
To participate in, or lead when appropriate, Trust and Directorate strategic development and implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines), through membership of committees and/or working parties.
In partnership with professional and operational leads, to be responsible for service development and expansion, following best practice policy and guidance and local organisational priorities and to lead on service innovation and evaluation.
To be responsible for setting and implementing clinical governance standards within the service and ensure that these are maintained and improved.
To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification
Essential
- Post doctoral training in relevant specialist areas of clinical psychology or equivalent as accredited by the BPS
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Leadership and management training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural context
Desirable
- Experience working with homeless or rough sleeping people
- Experience of leading and managing services including managing staff and initiating and implementing service development.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of neuropsychological and psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Ability to organise time effectively, use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Effort and Environment
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification
Essential
- Post doctoral training in relevant specialist areas of clinical psychology or equivalent as accredited by the BPS
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Leadership and management training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural context
Desirable
- Experience working with homeless or rough sleeping people
- Experience of leading and managing services including managing staff and initiating and implementing service development.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of neuropsychological and psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Ability to organise time effectively, use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Effort and Environment
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
