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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About

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. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Contact

Address: Trust Headquarters; Warneford Hospital; Warneford Lane; Headington; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX3 7JX
Contact Number: 01865 901000

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Ref: 267-BM5998215 Vacancy ID: 5998215

Assistant Psychologist - Aylesbury

Closed for applications on: 29-Jan-2024 10:08

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 29-Jan-2024 10:08

Location

Site: The Whiteleaf Centre
Address: Bierton Road
Town: Aylesbury
Postcode: HP20 1EG
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum, pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 4)

Specialty

Main area: Adult Mental Health Services

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.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be based full time on Amber Ward, with a highly skilled multi-disciplinary mental health staff team that include Nurses, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Health Care Assistants and Peer Support Workers .

1. To undertake, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including neuropsychological, tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews, as appropriate, with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. To undertake standardised, protocol-based, psychological therapy procedures.

2. To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings.

3.Where required and appropriate, to assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.

4. Where required and appropriate, to prepare psychology reports, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist.

5. Where required and appropriate, to attend and contribute to appropriate multi- disciplinary meetings.

6. To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

7. To participate in the running of therapeutic groups, collate, analyse and produce reports and outcome summaries

8. To maintain the highest standard of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Applicant requirements

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.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with people with mental health problems or social care needs
Experience of working autonomously and managing a caseload of patients (under the clinical supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist)
Experience in communicating sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues

Desirable criteria

Experience of delivering evidence based Psychological Therapy interventions for people with complex mental health difficulties
Experience of under taking client assessment including risk assessment
Experience of delivering psycho-educational groups

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships including telephone work with clients.
High degree of organisational skills, ability to adjust priorities
Good computer skills and the ability to use computer based information systems to record all client clinical information

Desirable criteria

Experience or knowledge of applying psychological input in different cultural contexts and / or different socio-demographic and marginalised social groups.
An understanding of research in health care settings

Other

Essential criteria

Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
Skills in engaging positively with a wide range of people with respect for diversity and encouraging inclusion.
An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.