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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.

Contact

Address: Trust Headquarters; Warneford Hospital; Warneford Lane; Headington; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX3 7JX
Contact Number: 01865 901000

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Ref: 267-SS6928006 Vacancy ID: 6928006

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - City and South Oxfordshire

Closed for applications on: 11-Feb-2025 00:00

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 11-Feb-2025 00:00

Location

Site: The Lambourn
Address: Wyndyke Furlong
Town: Abingdon
Postcode: OX16 1UJ
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum | pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Learning Disabilities

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 refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role

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

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Well-developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training and supervised experience as a Specialist Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist.
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing.
Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems.
Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
Ability to provide teaching and training on relevant psychological topics, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Awareness and understanding of the differential needs of people from black and minority ethnic groups and of the service issues arising within a multicultural area.
Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the British Psychological Society and relevant subdivisions (Division of Clinical Psychology, Division of Forensic Psychology, Division of Counselling Psychology).

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups (e.g., personality disorder, challenging difficulty, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.
Knowledge of relevant legislation and DoH policy and implementation guidelines in relation to mental health in general and the client group with which this post is concerned.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical or counselling psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology) the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Must be registered Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Desirable criteria

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Post graduate qualification in Forensic/Clinical/Counselling Psychology, and or eligible for chartering in Psychology.

Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to accept and use and provide supervision appropriately and effectively.
Commitment to working within a multicultural framework.

Desirable criteria

Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group-based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
Experience of working with people with learning disabilities.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities.
Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism, and to reflect on and manage own emotions and those of others, when faced by highly distressing material, problems and circumstances (e.g. when dealing with family breakdown, sexual abuse) on a frequent basis.
Commitment to the involvement of service users and carers on the development and delivery of mental health and other care services.

Desirable criteria

An interest in working with people with Learning Disabilities

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria

Willingness to travel between sites within the Trust and undertake community visits as required.
Current driving licence and car/motorbike owner

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Siobhan Duke

Job title

Principal Clinical Psychologist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07747767926

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.

As I work part-time it may be easier to initially make contact via email so we can arrange a time to discuss in more detail as needed.