Oxleas are seeking to recruit to a CBT Therapist (Band 7) permanent post to join one of our established and MDT integrated secondary care psychological therapies teams. The ADAPT East Team (Anxiety, Depression, Affective disorders, Personality and Trauma) is based in Orpington and serves the east of the London Borough of Bromley. This is essentially the non-psychosis pathway for secondary care, 18-65yr olds.
This is an exciting opportunity for the post holder to join a team that is currently piloting new ways of working with people with complex emotional needs. Specifically, the service is developing ‘whole team approach’ interventions such as SCM (Structured Clinical Management), alongside more established ways of working with attachment and trauma approaches (i.e. MBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, EMDR). Oxleas has a strong tradition in promoting psychological therapies and embracing different approaches.
Personal therapeutic interests and specialty development are actively encouraged and supported. This can be via formal training as well as established specialist supervision forums which are provided across the Trust.
The post holder will be involved in delivering individual and group-based psychological interventions as well as psychological assessments for new referrals into the team. They will contribute to the MDT and wider process of team working for complex cases.
The psychological therapies team includes clinical and counselling psychologists, as well as art and clinical psychotherapists. There is an established and respected regular reflective practice space for the psychological therapies team that runs alongside regular individual supervision provide by the Locality Lead Clinical Psychologist.
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
Current registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) is desirable. The post will also be open to those awaiting BABCP accreditation.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is located in South East London/North Kent and provides a wide variety of high quality mental health, community health and learning disability services in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Oxleas welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds. Our Building A Fairer Oxleas (BAFO) initiative aims to involving frontline staff, senior managers and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work at Oxleas, particularly for BAME staff, disabled staff and LGBTQ+ staff.
The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys as result of an organisational culture which supports staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.
The Psychology profession in Oxleas is well respected and represented at a high level within the Trust, and the Director of Therapies is a member of the Trust’s executive. Professional development is encouraged within all professional groups.
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025
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