Senior Clinical Psychologist - Eating Disorders - Oxford

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, and caring Clinical Psychologist?

We're looking for a dedicated individual to join our nationally recognised and expanding Oxford Child & Adolescent Eating Disorder Service.

Our well-established, busy service aims to deliver high standards of care to young people and their families, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and participation.

This is an ideal opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist with an interest in working in eating disorders or child and adolescent mental health and who wishes to develop more specialist skills. 

We welcome applications from Clinical Psychologists who have qualified this year and may be awaiting HCPC registration, and we can provide all necessary supervision and support that a newly qualified psychologist may need. 

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As our Clinical Psychologist, you will work as part of a passionate and experienced multidisciplinary team of nurses, Dietitians, Social Workers, Doctors, Support Workers, Assistant Psychologist and fellow Clinical Psychologists who work closely with wider CAMHS and partner agencies. 

You will be based in Oxford. In addition to direct clinical work (psychological assessment and intervention), this role provides service development and leadership opportunities such as, teaching, training, consultation, supervision, and audit/service evaluation.

We'll need you to hold a clinical caseload and provide family-based interventions for eating disorders and 1:1 CBT for Eating Disorders (CBT-E) to children and young people as part of a multidisciplinary team. 

You will also provide psychological therapies focussed on common psychological maintaining factors for eating disorders, such as anxiety, low mood, perfectionism, low self-esteem, emotion regulation and relational difficulties. The psychological interventions we offer, are drawn from a range of models, including CBT, ACT, Schema Therapy, and Adolescent Focussed Psychotherapy, depending on a client's needs. Supervision will be available to support implementation/skill development in application of all models utilised. 

An important part of the role will include provision of consultation and supervision to members of the team as appropriate, and contribution to multidisciplinary team meetings and care planning. 

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