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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
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorders
Closed for applications on: 28-Apr-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 28-Apr-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Sue Nicholls Centre
- Address
- Bierton road
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Postcode
- HP20 1EG
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 Per Annum | Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Adult Eating Disorders
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.
Job overview
Are you a HCPC registered Psychologist looking to make a move in your career? Or someone who's looking to take a step up into a Clinical role?
We are seeking an HCPC Registered Clinical Phycologist looking to develop your skills in a supportive developmental role. You will be joining the Adult Eating Disorders Service (AEDS) based in our Aylesbury site.
You'll be supporting junior staff and trainees, develop innovative care pathways, and contribute to audit and research projects to enhance service delivery. Your expertise will be central to delivering compassionate, patient-focused care and driving excellence in clinical outcomes.
If you have a passion for supporting individuals affected by eating disorders, we’d love to hear from you.
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- Provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
- Make skilled evaluations to formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems.
- Implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
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 hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to hold HCPC registration in order to be considered for 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist within Adult Mental Health Service
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of supervision of junior and/or trainee psychologists.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist within Adult Eating Disorder Service.
- Experience of running groups.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of or qualified in CBT-E or MANTRA
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirstie Swan
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901091
- Additional information
You can also contact: Dr Jo Holliday, Consultant Clinical Psychologist: [email protected]
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.
Additionally, we welcome the opportunity to meet in person with people who are interested in working with our team and we would encourage a visit to our base in Aylesbury.
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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