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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.
Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Abingdon
Closed for applications on: 7-May-2024 00:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-May-2024 00:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Clockhouse
- Address
- 22-26 Ock Street
- Town
- Abingdon
- Postcode
- OX14 5SW
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent 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.
Job overview
We, in the Getting More Help Pathway within The South Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health team, are looking for a dedicated Psychologist who is looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
The service is designed to provide young people with expert help from a single point of access, and is part of the wider multi-disciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
We are a rapidly evolving service, committed to adapting to meet diverse and challenging demands and to maintaining high quality specialist assessment and intervention whilst being mindful of throughput, innovation and efficiencies.
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, personable, and resourceful. Someone who is also committed to supporting developing services as part of a multi-disciplinary team. We'll need you to have excellent communication and organisational skills, and a keenness to be part of a busy and vibrant pathway.
This is an exciting opportunity and would suit someone who is keen to develop their skills in the CAMHS Getting More Help pathway. We can offer some flexibility around the hours you want to work (from 0.6 to 1 WTE).
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A day in the life of a Clinical Pscyhloigist in CAMHS consists of multi-disciplinary working with the team which is made up of a passionate bunch of clinicians. This may be attending clinical case discussion, joining assessment clinics or supervision groups, no day is the same.
In addition to holding your own clinical caseload of young people offering evidence based interventions you will be responsible for supervising the B7 Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologist; as well as managing/ overseeing the psychology treatment waiting list allocating cases to specific clinicians.
Other duties will include attending the Team Meeting taking part in the clinical duty rota and joint working as appropriate. There will also be opportunities to attend training and take part in the ongoing development of our clinical service
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
Our service provides assessment and treatment interventions tailored to the needs of children and young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties. We offer a range of evidence-based treatments and deliver these within the community.
The community team is multi-disciplinary and comprises of Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists, CBT Therapist, Consultant Psychiatrists, Senior and Mental Health Practitioners, Social Worker, Assistant Psychologists and Team Administrators.
The service offers excellent opportunities for supervision, service development, service evaluation and research, teaching and training. We have good supervision and operational structures and an excellent track record of CPD, as well as good links with Oxford University, particularly with the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology and Oxford Brookes. The service is committed to evidence-based and evidence generating practice.
Other key duties include:
- To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist psychology service to clients with complex mental health problems including severe, enduring and multiple disorders, and challenging behaviour.
- To offer consultation and supervision, and support the work of other service staff and psychology clinical team members providing psychologically based care and treatment, according to expertise.
- To provide training placements for Doctoral Trainee psychologists, a range of qualified and unqualified staff across mental health areas, as agreed.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, and contribute to research and training within the areas served by the teams and service. To be involved in service developments, as appropriate.
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oxford Health is 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
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical / counselling psychologist within CAMHS.
Contractual or other requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post. Car owner / driver
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rebecca Tyrer
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920 823817
- Additional information
Dawn Bagwell-Cox, Joint Clinical Team Manager
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.
No longer accepting applications
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