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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-BM7245225 Vacancy ID: 7245225

Newly Qualified | Senior Clinical Psychologist

Accepting applications until: 19-Jun-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 19-Jun-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Whiteleaf Centre
Address: Bierton Road
Town: Aylesbury
Postcode: HP20 1EG
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7 to 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Clinical Psychology

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

Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies is a nationally recognised, high-performing NHS Talking Therapies service, supporting around 10,000 adults every year to manage anxiety and depression. Our service has over 200 staff including PWPs, clinical and counselling psychologists, CBT therapists, referral coordinators, employment advisors, managers and administrators.

Our main bases are in High Wycombe in the south and Aylesbury in the north of the county. We offer flexible working arrangements.

Staff wellbeing is a top priority for us. We have a very active, award winning, wellbeing team within the service and work hard to ensure that a supportive, collaborative and productive culture is in place.

You will have responsibility for ensuring the delivery of specific aspects of the service requiring the expertise of a clinical psychologist. This may include supervising, line managing and coordinating the clinical and research work of attached doctoral trainees and assistant psychologists. You will also hold your own clinical caseload.

You should be able to demonstrate use of evidence-based practice, preferably in a primary care setting. BABCP accreditation is desirable or you can work towards obtaining this during your first year in post. We also welcome applications from Clinical Psychologists who are either recently qualified or due to qualify in Autumn 2025 who can be appointed to a band 7 development post. The development post (previously known as a preceptorship) provides an opportunity for newly qualified Clinical Psychologists to be supported to develop their skills across the core dimensions of therapy, supervision, team work and leadership, with a view to being eligible for future promotion to the 8a post in the service.

Oxford Health NHS FT has a strong track record for supporting the development of psychological therapists. The Trust has two Talking Therapies services, a range of specialist psychological therapy services and employs over 1000 psychological therapists. The Trust hosts the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology. Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies is actively involved in research, participating in local and national studies. The service benefits from being a member of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire Talking Therapies Clinical Network led by Professor David Clark.

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

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
HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Accredited or willing to work towards accreditation with BABCP during first year in post

Experience

Essential criteria

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.

Desirable criteria

Experience of supervising others
Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention
Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies with people with Common Mental Health Disorders
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

Desirable criteria

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

Skills

Essential criteria

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
Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
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

Desirable criteria

An awareness of own strengths and limitations

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria

Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults

Desirable criteria

• Current clean Full Driving Licence and use of a car that can be used for work

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Dr. John Pimm

Job title

Clinical Psychologist/Lead and Head of Service

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07798893900

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.