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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-OA7335649 Vacancy ID: 7335649

Assistant Psychologist

Closed for applications on: 23-Jul-2025 00:00

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 23-Jul-2025 00:00

Location

Site: The Elms Centre
Address: Oxford Rd
Town: Bnabury
Postcode: OX16 9AL
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £27,485 - £30,162 per annum, prorata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 4)

Specialty

Main area: Assistant 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.

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.

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

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

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

A first class honours degree or higher in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Desirable criteria

Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Essential criteria

High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive. Experience using microcomputers for databases Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues. An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities. An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context High degree of organisational skills, ability to adjust priorities.

Desirable criteria

High standard of report writing.

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities. Experience of data entry and data analysis.

Desirable criteria

Experience of paid work in direct care provision. Experience of working with older people and or people with dementia

PERSONAL

Essential criteria

An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines. An ability to interact with people with mental health problems and disabilities. Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.

Desirable criteria

An interest in working with people with mental health problems or other disabilities

OTHER

Essential criteria

OTHER Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively. Ability and willingness to travel for business purposes.
Driving licence and use of a vehicle

Desirable criteria

A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology./and /or mental health

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Philip Parker

Job title

Team Manager

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

01865 902 726

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.