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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.
Getting Help Lead Clinician- Aylesbury
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Sue Nicholls
- Address
- Bierton Road
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Postcode
- HP20 1EG
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Getting Help 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
If you are an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and ready for a new challenge, you may be interested in joining our supportive and forward thinking Getting Help Services as their Lead Clinician.
You would be joining Bucks CAMHS at an exciting time as we are embarking on an improvement journey to re-shape our Getting Help Services to operate in a way more aligned to iThrive.
You will be involved in clinically supporting all 3 of these service areas that make up Getting Help, which provides great variety to this role.
Working across a large pathway offers plenty of opportunity to use higher-level skills including supervision, consultancy and leadership. Having strong clinical leadership oversight for these teams is particularly important given the significant number of trainees these teams employ. With this comes an excellent opportunity to shape and grow this developing workforce.
You will be working in a leadership role, supervised by the Psychology Professional Lead/Head of Psychological Therapies, and as part of an inclusive and supportive team of qualified low intensity CBT practitioners.
Working closely with the Operational Leads, you will be responsible for overseeing the recruitment, training and supervision of all staff employed to work directly within the pathway.
Tasks will include agreeing suitability of cases for the pathways, managing any waiting lists and pathway development work.
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- To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical / counselling psychology and CBT service to clients of the team for the locality, across all sectors of care.
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment to clients referred to the team.
- To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, CBT therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
- To take a lead in coordinating specialist therapeutic activity within the team and participate in disseminating skills to the wider service.
- To lead and co-ordinate the training and supervision of psychologists and CBT therapists within the Getting Help pathway (low and high intensity).
- To lead on the development of psychological interventions including through digital technology.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/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
We are delighted to be able to offer a new opportunity in Buckinghamshire CAMHS. This role is a chance to be at the forefront of our new way of working in our Getting Help Services, ensuring that services receive the clinical oversight and professional development of staff required to deliver safe and effective care.
This role involves the post holder working across our current Mental Health Support Teams and Targeted Services, and in the future our High Intensity CBT clinicians. You will be required to work closely alongside the Service Manager and Operational Leads (Team Managers) for these services.
The post holder will be key to the service embedding the changes and ensuring, alongside our Service Manager and Operational Leads, that consistent and good quality care is given during the transition period and beyond.
Please refer to the attached job description for a full summary of the main responsibilities
- 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
Education
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
- Accredited or able to demonstrate that you are now accreditable with the BABCP as a high intensity CBT supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level within CAMHS
- Experience of clinical or professional supervision of trainee or assistant psychologists or other psychologists.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Post qualification experience of working with young people with complex presentation and co-morbid issues
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of setting up and running groups
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Rowsell
- Job title
- Head of Psychological Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901951
- 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.
Lucy Eaves
Service Manager
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