Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
We are recruiting an experienced and innovative Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide clinical and professional leadership within the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Project (RAMHP).
Working alongside the team manager, the post holder will lead the development and delivery of psychological interventions, offer highly specialist clinical input, and provide consultation, supervision, and reflective practice to the wider team.
RAMHP is an Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust service supporting people sleeping rough across Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich. The project works closely with non-profit organisations and local services to strengthen pathways, fill gaps, and ensure homeless individuals are rapidly identified, assessed, supported, and directed towards sustained recovery.
The service enhances existing provision as part of a broader homeless wellbeing pathway, offering access to Oxleas’ training, supervision, and Quality Improvement resources.
Funded through NHS England’s Long-Term Plan, RAMHP aligns with the Greater London Authority’s homelessness priorities, including reducing the number of new rough sleepers, preventing repeat homelessness, supporting non-UK nationals, improving partnership working, ensuring better outcomes after hospital or prison discharge, meeting physical and mental health needs, increasing access to mental health services, expanding appropriate accommodation options, and strengthening data collection and use.
Duties
- The post holder will provide skilled and experienced leadership to Oxleas RAMHP, overseeing the provision and development of the psychological interventions and wider psychosocial and trauma-informed practice in the team.
- The post will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to service users of RAMHP and their support networks (including families and carers).
- To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatment.
- To provide consultation and reflective practice and incident debriefs to the service and to facilitate team working, psychologically informed practice, trauma-informed care and appropriate treatment pathways to optimise service user journey and experience across service transitions.
- The post will also involve close organisational liaison with the wider Oxleas mental health system and third sector partners.
- The post holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the teams. To contribute to the overall management of the service.
Overview
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
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Mazen Nazzal
Job title: Senior Clinical Practitioner
Email address: mazen.nazzal@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07920410597
