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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

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Ref: 267-OA6795981 Vacancy ID: 6795981

Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist / Psychotherapist

Closed for applications on: 10-Dec-2024 00:02

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 10-Dec-2024 00:02

Location

Site: Keystone Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub - Banbury and Witney
Address: Unit 11a Castle Quay Shopping Centre
Town: Banbury and Witney
Postcode: OX16 5UH
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week (Hybrid office and home working pattern)

Salary

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Keystone Primary Care Mental Health Teams

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification for further information. If you wanted to have an informal chat, please do contact Clare Crole-Rees on [email protected]

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

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

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and eligible to apply for BABCP accreditation or Professional clinical qualification e.g. RMN, Dip SW or OT and either completion of the CBT High Intensity Therapist course or BABCP accreditation as well as experience of delivering psychological therapies

Desirable criteria

Training in secondary modality such as DBT, MBT or CFT

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working within the NHS and in a Multi-disciplinary team
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
Experience of working with serious mental health conditions and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
Experience of group-based interventions

Desirable criteria

Experience of working with neurodivergent individuals with complex mental health difficulties

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body and BABCP
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Ability to collect routine data and use electronic audit and case management tools in an accurate and timely fashion.
High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies

Desirable criteria

access to a vehicle to use for work

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Clare Crole-Rees

Job title

Consultant Psychologist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07974 745147

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.