Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 9 months (Secondment or Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 277-8054602-CMH
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Marys Hospital
- Town
- Sidcup
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
ADHD Specialist Psychological Therapist (CBT)
Band 7
Job overview
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Main duties of the job
The postholder will play a key role within the Adult ADHD Service, delivering high-quality, evidence-based psychological care while supporting service development and multidisciplinary working. Main duties will include:
- Undertaking specialist ADHD assessments using a range of evidence-based tools and clinical interviews
- Providing group-based psychological interventions, including CBT and structured psychoeducation programmes
- Leading the development, delivery and governance of ADHD psychoeducation groups and materials
- Offering specialist advice, formulation, and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues and external partners
- Delivering training to internal and external services to improve understanding and management of ADHD
- Supervising and supporting Assistant Psychologists and junior staff
- Contributing to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives, including outcome monitoring
- Working collaboratively with GPs, health and social care services, and voluntary sector organisations across Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- To be a qualified (HCPC registered) Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. Or To have undertaken a recognised Qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, social work, medicine AND to have continued your studies gaining a recognised post-graduate qualification in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Desirable criteria
- Accreditation as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the BABCP, or willingness to work towards this.
- Post-qualification training in specialised CBT provision with long-term health conditions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment using CBT approaches of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care
- Completion of two years of supervised clinical experience with the client group of the post or a related client group (adult mental health)
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising the clinical work of other psychological therapists
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy with clients experiencing psychological distress in relation to long-term health conditions.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- High level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within mental health.
Desirable criteria
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised evidenced based psychological therapies.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Doherty
- Job title
- Lead Psychological Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Josie Boxall
Operational and Clinical Lead
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