Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a) or Preceptorship (Band 7)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 33.75
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 11/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work across acute in-patient and community mental health services for older people in Greenwich. The post involves working at Memorial Hospital and Oxleas House, providing specialist clinical services, assessment, formulation, and interventions. It also includes supporting the wider inpatient team psychologically and supervising trainee psychologists. This is a permanent, part-time position with opportunities for flexible working.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Experience of working in older people's mental health services, including with people with dementia and their carers
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient, and assessment and intervention with patients with a wide variety of neurological deficits
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge & Skills
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, dementia etc).
- Effort & Environment
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to contain the stress of others.
- Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods of time during service user contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- Genuine interest in working with Older People
- Training & Qualifications
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS
- HCPC registration
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Experience of working in older people's mental health services, including with people with dementia and their carers
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient, and assessment and intervention with patients with a wide variety of neurological deficits
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge & Skills
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, dementia etc).
- Effort & Environment
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to contain the stress of others.
- Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods of time during service user contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- Genuine interest in working with Older People
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £70,887 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a) or Preceptorship (Band 7)
The closing date is 11 October 2026
Job summary
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) or Preceptorship (Band 7)
Permanent Post 0.9 (33.75 hours) opportunities for flexible working.
We are seeking to recruit a skilled, innovative and compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work across the acute in-patient and community mental health services in the London borough of Greenwich.
Psychology's contribution in these settings is well established, and the link that this post provides for older people who are transferring between the in-patient and community setting has been shown to be effective and highly valued.
This role involves 2.5 day based in the Older People CMHT at Memorial Hospital, Greenwich, and 2 days on Shepherdleas, the Older People acute ward at Oxleas House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This post would suit someone who has a genuine interest in working therapeutically with this varied and rewarding client group.
The post holder will join well established multi-professional teams and benefit from close working relationships with other on-site psychological therapists. This is an exciting opportunity to improve the service user's experience of the interface between hospital and community services and to provide innovation and leadership in
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