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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-OA7178006 Vacancy ID: 7178006

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Accepting applications until: 22-May-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 22-May-2025 23:59

Location

Gwefan: North AMHT
Cyfeiriad: Elms Centre
Tref: Banbury, Oxford
Cod post: OX16 9AL
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent: Can be offered as a preceptorship
Oriau: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Cyflog: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum | Pro rata
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 7)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: 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.

Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

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.

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

Qualifiacations

Meini prawf hanfodol

Doctoral level training in clinical /counselling psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology

Meini prawf dymunol

Pre-qualification training and qualification or experience in research methodology, staff training and /or other fields of applied psychology.

Knowledge

Meini prawf hanfodol

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with severe and complex mental health problems

Meini prawf dymunol

Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health

Skills

Meini prawf hanfodol

Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
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.
Good Organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload

Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol

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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient settings.

Meini prawf dymunol

Experience of working in a multicultural framework
Experience of running / co-running groups.

Personal Qualities

Meini prawf hanfodol

Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
A positive approach to working with adults with mental health difficulties
Ability to work as part of a team and independently.