Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical / Counselling Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover for 12 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-BM6476493
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sue Nicholls Centre
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist Neurodevelopmental teams
Band 7
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Job overview
Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who wants to develop your skills with neurodivergence in a friendly, supportive and innovative team? Do you want to work in an organisation that values being caring, safe and excellent? Are you passionate about delivering mental health support and quality diagnoses for the neurodivergent population in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?
Then this role is for you.
You will join a well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, including developing your leadership skills and supervision of others as and continuing professional development and research opportunities. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.
Please contact us or arrange a visit if you want to know more
Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll be contributing to the triaging, assessment and intervention process for neurodivergent children and young people and those who are exploring a diagnosis, including those experiencing mental health needs. You'll be assessing the mental health component of their experience and delivering evidence based interventions.
We work closely with families to build care plans and there's a lot of multi-agency networking involved, as you'll be in contact with schools. the local authority, play organisations and charities.
We'll need you to participate in duty cover and liaison cover as well - please get in touch with us if you'd like more information about this.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main duties of the job include:
- Comprehensive assessment
- Shared formulation
- Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence-based interventions
- Collaborative risk management
- Support and supervision of colleagues
- Multi-agency working
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Compliance with professional registration practice
- Safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
- Addressing safeguarding concerns were appropriate or necessary
You will be supported by excellent team knowledge and experience on a formal/informal basis. Clinical and managerial supervision are augmented with profession specific supervision as required with systemic/psychodynamic opportunities.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with conditions appropriate to the post.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology including specifically models of Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Current HCPC registration as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology ,training and/or other fields of applied psychology. staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
- 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 threat of physical abuse
Desirable criteria
- Experience of running / co-running groups
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with conditions appropriate to the post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Bailey
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901325
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
Please note Rachel Bailey will be on leave between 29/7/24 and 16/8/24. Please also contact Catherine Fava Consultant Clinical Psychologist at [email protected]
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