Assistant Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated psychology graduate looking to gain experience and progress towards applied clinical psychology training. This role is based within the Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team.

The team is a multidisciplinary service providing rapid assessment, crisis intervention, assertive outreach, and therapeutic support to young people aged 12–18 and their families presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties. We work within an Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) model.

You will join a large, well-established psychology team offering regular supervision, strong peer support, and excellent CPD opportunities, with links across Oxleas boroughs and shared professional development events.

Greenwich CAMHS is a friendly, busy, and innovative service, currently redesigning its model in line with the Thrive framework to deliver a more needs-led approach. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from BAME backgrounds to ensure our workforce reflects the communities we serve.

Greenwich CAMHS is based at Highpoint House, close to the beautiful Oxleas Woods. There is parking on site and in nearby residential streets. There are also close by bus routes.

The post-holder will support data collection processes for Children and Young People’s IAPT (CYP-IAPT) within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. This includes assisting with clinically related administration, completion of audits, collection of statistics, and the development of audit and/or research projects.

There will also be opportunities to undertake clinical work under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, supporting the psychological care of clients across all sectors of the service, within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Strong IT skills (particularly in Excel and SPSS) and excellent communication skills are essential, alongside a genuine interest in working with children and young people.

The post-holder will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist and will have opportunities to undertake clinical work under supervision.

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

Key Task and Responsibilities

Research and Service Evaluation

To undertake data collection, data inputting, analysis and the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.

To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.

To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To support clinical staff and managers with regards to the collection and recording of routine data through training and regular attendance at team meetings.

To provide monthly reports of multi-disciplinary clinical activity as requested by the supervising clinical psychologist and team manager.

Clinical

To undertake protocol based psychological assessment of client applying psychological theory, including neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.

To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects.

To work with other staff to assess or support service users in residential and day service settings and contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.

To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

To understand and work within the CYP IAPT framework.

Please see job description for full details.

This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Jun 2026

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