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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
Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Aylesbury
Closed for applications on: 7-Ion-2025 00:02
Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-Ion-2025 00:02
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- Whiteleaf Centre
- Cyfeiriad
- Bierton Road
- Tref
- Aylesbury
- Cod post
- HP20 1EG
- Major / Minor Region
- Swydd Rydychen
Math o gontract a phatrwm gwaith
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Llawnamser
- Rhan-amser
- Gweithio hyblyg
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £46,148 - £60,504 pro rata per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (Band 8a)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
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
We are looking for an 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to join the Buckinghamshire Adult ASD and ADHD Services
We are eager to hear from psychologists who are keen to work in autism and ADHD diagnosis and intervention. You will have knowledge and experience of working with this client group, a desire to provide a high-quality service and be a part of our enthusiastic team. This would also be an ideal opportunity for someone about to qualify, or recently qualified, looking for a band 7-8a preceptorship development opportunity.
The successful applicant will join a small but supportive and skilled multi-disciplinary team. Roles in the team include psychiatry, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, nursing and psychology, including an embedded Reasonable Adjustments Service. We will provide opportunities for training in autism and ADHD diagnosis and will support you to develop your skills in therapeutic work with autistic people and those with ADHD. You will work closely with an experienced consultant clinical psychologist who will provide supervision and support as you progress in your career. In addition, the team has close links with CMHTs, inpatient wards, Social Care and other mental health services.
We welcome conversations, or visits to our modern purpose-built base at The Whiteleaf Centre, in Aylesbury.
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This will be an interesting and varied role. The 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist will provide autism diagnostic assessments and assessments for ADHD as well as assisting with triage and waiting list management.
In addition, the psychologist will provide psychological assessments and interventions, in group and individual formats, using CBT, ACT, CFT and other relevant models.
The post holder will also be working with the patients and teams towards co-produced service growth and development as well as being involved in supervising trainees and assistant psychologists.
In the post you will receive expert clinical supervision and management support and will have access to a wide range of CPD activities alongside a strong network of psychological therapists in Buckinghamshire. There are excellent opportunities for service development, service evaluation/research and teaching/training. The service has close links with the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research and regularly has trainees doing clinical placements and research.
We are happy to support flexible working hours to fit with work life balance aspirations and external commitments.
For further details or to arrange an informal visit please contact:
Dr Rebecca Mitchell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and ASD Lead
[email protected] / 01865 901620
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”
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
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data, from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, as appropriate and commensurate with competencies.
To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary 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
Gofynion yr ymgeisydd
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Doctoral Level training in clinical or counselling psychology, or due to qualify in 2024
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC or eligible for registration in 2024
Meini prawf dymunol
- Qualifications, training and/or experience in clinical supervision
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Skills in the use of complex methids of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
- Well-developed communication skills, written and orally to convey clinically sensitive information to clients and their families, and to professional colleagues and teams
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and / or complex mental health difficulties
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of working in the NHS or social care
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Dr Rebecca Mitchell
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01865 901620
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
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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