Job overview

This flexible and well supported preceptorship post is ideal for newly qualified or experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologists seeking to develop well-rounded skills in our Bromley Older People’s Memory Service. 

The service offers assessment, diagnosis and provision of psychosocial interventions. There is a range of evidence based interventions including individual, family and group work. The Memory service has achieved accreditation with MSNAP since 2014. 

The memory service psychologists attend regular specialist neuropsychology supervision and training offered within the Trust. There is a monthly newly qualified psychologist meeting to develop within a supportive environment. 

The Memory team is an approachable and supportive team which has previously won the Oxleas Recognition Award. The team works within the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and there are opportunities to work therapeutically with clients in the CMHT.

We welcome applications from Clinical/Counselling Psychologists who are either newly/recently qualified and starting at Band 7 level, or from those already working at Band 8a level. 

If starting at Band 7, you will be able to progress to a Band 8a role within 18-24 months post-qualification on the condition of meeting a range of competencies. Clinicians who are already Band 8a would be appointed at an equivalent level if they meet the required competencies.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to clients of the Older People’s Mental Health Service and other teams when necessary or appropriate; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Working for our organisation

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