Job Description

Job Reference

JOB0196

Location

Greenwich

Salary

34,676 per annum, including allowances

Vacancy Type

Permanent/Full Time

Working Hours

37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline

Friday, June 13, 2025

Job Summary

Do you want to be part of a passionate community of practitioners delivering trauma-informed care, and committed to making a difference? We've got an exciting full-time assistant psychologist opportunity at our Greenwich service.

The Role

This well supported post is ideal for someone seeking a career as a psychological professional and who wants to grow diverse skills that contribute to trauma-informed working. We offer:


Weekly supervision with a registered practitioner psychologist. Support to prepare for applying to the clinical psychology doctoral training courses, if and when you are interested in doing so. To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package.

You will:


support and enhance the provision of psychologically-informed care of clients within Via's Greenwich service, particularly with those who are experiencing homelessness, criminality, and those most disaffected. work directly with individuals and groups who are seeking support for substance use, providing flexible delivery of psychological assessment and interventions under the supervision of a registered psychologist. assist in clinically related administration, development and implementation of audit/research/service development projects, teaching and other project work. join a multi-disciplinary team made up of psychology, recovery workers, nurses, psychiatry, and peer mentors.

The Service

Via offers community and residential services for substance use. We nurture new ideas, put co-production at the heart of what we do, and provide practitioners with the support to explore and grow. Within this role, you will work directly with individuals and groups, flexibly delivering psychological support that responds to the context of people's lives and works with the social determinants of health.


Launched in 2020, Via Greenwich is a fully-integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions, operating from a main treatment hub in Woolwich.




For an informal chat about the role please contact

Anastasia Sgoumpopoulou, Practitioner Psychologist

via A.Sgoumpopoulou@viaorg.uk


The closing date for applications is

Friday 13 June at midnight.

However, we urge to apply as soon as possible, as this advert may close earlier due to high application numbers.

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).




We accept applications via https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.


Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.


We're a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.


Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.


Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.