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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
Assistant Clinical Psychologist & Personal Assistant
Closed for applications on: 5-Jun-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Jun-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Peach Tree House
- Address
- Bierton Road
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Postcode
- HP20 1EG
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- AHP
- Interview date
- 20/06/2024
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.
Job overview
Are you a graduate psychologist looking for an interesting and varied role?
I am looking for an Assistant Psychologist to support me in my role as Clinical & Professional Lead and Head of Service for NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies. You will need to be well organised with excellent administrative skills. I am registered blind, so a guide dog friendly applicant is a must!
NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies serves adults and older adults with Depression and Anxiety disorders across Buckinghamshire. Working in the service there are over 250 psychological therapists, psychological wellbeing practitioners, assistant psychologists, employment advisors and administrators, who help over 12,000 people each year.
As an Assistant Psychologist you will have a role in supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of patients within the service. You will also provide a professional and confidential PA service for me in my role. Being a car driver and having access to a car for work purposes is essential for this post. Applicants from the Buckinghamshire area would be particularly welcome to apply.
Please note that depending on the interest in this post we may close for applications earlier than the deadline advertised.
Interviews to be held 27.06.24 in person in Aylesbury.
Advert
- To provide a high level, professional and confidential Personal Assistant service to Dr Pimm in his role as clinical and professional lead and head of service for the Buckinghamshire IAPT service.
- Covering all aspects of administrative and organisational support including specific support to Dr Pimm relating to his visual impairment (assisting with access to information both electronic and paper based, performing delegated tasks requiring vision such as responding to approval requests).
- To assist Dr Pimm with access to physical and virtual environments. This includes travelling with Dr Pimm and his guide dog to meetings, conferences, clinical settings etc locally, regionally and nationally.
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of patients within the Bucks Talking Therapies service. The post holder will provide under the supervision of qualified psychological therapist, low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions and telephone assessments to clients with mild to moderate anxiety and depression in the Bucks Talking Therapies service.
Working for our organisation
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post-holder will work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychological therapist and within the overall framework of the service policies and procedures including providing telephone assessment and delivering some group based low intensity interventions in different locations across Buckinghamshire.
- The Assistant’s work is managed and supervised weekly.
- To work alongside Dr Pimm at a number of venues across Bucks including Peach Tree House (Aylesbury) and Prospect House (High Wycombe).
- To work individually with patients in person or digitally, in primary care settings, clients’ homes and other locations.
- To lease with GPs and members of Psychological Therapies Pathway services, professionals from other statutory and non-statutory agencies responsible for client care.
- The CBT group work involves working with clients in community venues. The work sometimes involves working with clients in emotionally charged or hostile situations. Work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, use interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
See attached job description. Subject to job evaluation review.
- 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities specifically anxiety and depression.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High level of written communication skills.
Other
Essential criteria
- Holds a current driving licence and with access to a car for work purposes
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support a visually impaired person and their guide dog to access physical and virtual environments
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Pimm
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07798893900
- 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.
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