Overview
Join to apply for the Highly Specialist Psychologist role at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen within our Devon cluster prisons, to provide psychological therapies into HMP Channings Wood as part of a 12 month maternity cover starting from January 2026. The post holder will hold their own clinical caseload and be responsible for supervising pre-qualified psychological therapists. Supervision skills training will be provided if required and you will receive clinical supervision from an experienced Lead Psychologist. Your progression is key, and you will be offered development sessions to support your career planning and professional development.
Please contact Dr Khyati Patel, Consultant Forensic Psychologist & Head of Psychological Therapies, Prison Mental Health Service, Devon Cluster, (Khyati.patel10@nhs.net) for an informal conversation or to know more about the role. We would consider applications from newly qualified psychological therapists or those close to obtaining qualified status.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Key Responsibilities
* To provide direct psychological care (assessment and intervention) and support the delivery of psychologically informed care by all disciplines within the service.
* To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
* To provide line management to designated assistant psychologists.
About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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: Khyati Patel, Job title: Psychologist, Email address: khyati.patel10@nhs.net
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