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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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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.
Cysylltu
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Consultant Family Therapist & Locality Lead
Closed for applications on: 31-Hyd-2024 00:02
Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on: 31-Hyd-2024 00:02
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- South AMHT
- Cyfeiriad
- Abingdon AMHT
- Tref
- Abingdon
- Cod post
- OX14 1AG
- Major / Minor Region
- Swydd Rydychen
Math o gontract a phatrwm gwaith
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Rhan-amser - 22.5 awr yr wythnos
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £74,290 - £85,601 Per annum/pro-rata
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (Band 8c)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- 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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you an experienced & innovative Family Therapist?
We are in need of an experienced and innovative Family Therapist to join our service at Consultant level. This pivotal role will contribute to the ongoing development of psychological therapies within the integrated Adult Mental Health Teams (AMHTs) in Oxfordshire.
As a Consultant Family Therapist, you will play a crucial role in helping to shape the future of adult mental health services in Oxfordshire, demonstrating leadership in clinical practice, service development, supervision, training, and management. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing the quality and reach of our services, ensuring that we provide the best possible care to our patients and their families.
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We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with extensive clinical experience, providing clinical leadership, service development, supervision, training and management.
You will be working closely with other senior Psychological Therapists and Adult Mental Health Team colleagues, together with the Clinical and Professional Lead, to develop and deliver the clinical service model, with a particular focus on the ongoing development of our family therapy clinic, which take referrals for adults across Oxfordshire. The clinic also offers opportunities to trainee clinical psychologists and trainee doctors as well as other health care professionals.
One day a week will be working with the South Oxfordshire locality, the remaining days will have a focus on the delivery of the family clinic.
You will engage in multidisciplinary team meetings, triage case consultations, and joint initiatives, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives are respected and integrated into our service delivery.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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”
We offer great CPD and training opportunities and have excellent links with the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health and Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training, which is hosted by the Trust. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. We also collaborate with Oxford Brookes University, Buckinghamshire New University, and the University of Bath.
We provide excellent opportunities for professional development to help you consolidate your therapy skills in a focused and supported way, monthly opportunities to meet psychological therapy colleagues from across the county for reflective practice groups and clinical updates.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
You will be part of the Psychological Therapies Leadership Team who ensure that we remain at the forefront of psychological therapy excellence.
Your expertise will be vital in shaping the future of our services, implementing innovative approaches, and maintaining the high standards of patient care. Your role will also involve collaboration with a diverse team of professionals, fostering a supportive work environment.
If you believe you have the qualities we are looking for, we encourage you to apply and contribute to our vision of delivering exceptional psychological care.
- 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
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Manyleb y person
Training & Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Professional postgraduate qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association for Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent.
- Postgraduate qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy.
- Maintenance of UKCP registration.
- Registration as Clinical Supervisor by the Association for Family Therapy (AFT)
Meini prawf dymunol
- Couples Therapy qualification
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified family and systemic psychotherapist with post qualification experience at a highly specialist level.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified family and systemic psychotherapist and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of professional and clinical staff.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified Family and systemic psychotherapists and/or other psychological therapies staff
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
- Experience of the application of family and systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of collaborating with service users and carers in the development or review of service provision.
Personal
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical/counselling psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
Meini prawf dymunol
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
Knowledge & Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Advanced knowledge and skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need, developmental stage of the client and work setting.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Analytic and judgment skills in processing complex information arising from systemic understandings and ability to prioritise from a range of options while maintaining collaborative alliance with family members and fellow professionals.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Masters or doctoral level knowledge of research methodology consistent with systemic practice.
- Knowledge of legislation and NHS policy and its implications for both clinical practice, professional management and service development in relation to the client group and mental health
- Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements.
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide range of contexts including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality Disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised systemic psychotherapies.
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical/counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Joanne Ryder
- Teitl y swydd
- Oxfordshire Psychological Therapies Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01865 902005
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