Job summary
** Previous applicants need not apply *** We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Band 7 ADHD Specialist Psychological Therapist (CBT) to join our Adult ADHD Service within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, working across Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. This role offers an exciting opportunity to deliver specialist ADHD assessments, evidence-based psychological interventions, and structured psychoeducation in line with NICE guidance, while also leading on the development and governance of psychoeducation groups. The postholder will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, providing consultation, training, and supervision to colleagues, as well as contributing to service development, quality improvement, and outcome monitoring. This is an ideal position for a skilled clinician passionate about improving outcomes for adults with ADHD and shaping innovative, patient-centred services within a supportive and forward-thinking organisation. This role is offered a secondment to internal staff and fixed term for external staff.

Main duties of the job
The postholder will play a key role within the Adult ADHD Service, delivering high-quality, evidence-based psychological care while supporting service development and multidisciplinary working. Main duties will include:

• Undertaking specialist ADHD assessments using a range of evidence-based tools and clinical interviews
• Providing group-based psychological interventions, including CBT and structured psychoeducation programmes
• Leading the development, delivery and governance of ADHD psychoeducation groups and materials
• Offering specialist advice, formulation, and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues and external partners
• Delivering training to internal and external services to improve understanding and management of ADHD
• Supervising and supporting Assistant Psychologists and junior staff
• Contributing to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives, including outcome monitoring
• Working collaboratively with GPs, health and social care services, and voluntary sector organisations across Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich

Job responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.

About us
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

Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential

• To be a qualified (HCPC registered) Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. Or To have undertaken a recognised Qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, social work, medicine AND to have continued your studies gaining a recognised post-graduate qualification in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Desirable

• Accreditation as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the BABCP, or willingness to work towards this.
• Post-qualification training in specialised CBT provision with long-term health conditions

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment using CBT approaches of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care
• Completion of two years of supervised clinical experience with the client group of the post or a related client group (adult mental health)
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

Desirable

• Experience of supervising the clinical work of other psychological therapists
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy with clients experiencing psychological distress in relation to long-term health conditions.

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• High level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within mental health.

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised evidenced based psychological therapies.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Lead Psychological Therapist
Liz Doherty
liz.doherty1@nhs.net