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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.
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Senior Clinical Psychologist - Learning Disabilities - Banbury
Accepting applications until: 14-Sep-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 14-Sep-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Samuelson House
- Address
- Tramway Road
- Town
- Banbury
- Postcode
- OX16 5AU
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum | pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Specialist Clinical 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.
Job overview
We are recruiting for a part-time Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our North Learning Disability Team based in Banbury.
You'll be providing a highly specialist service that is culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice to help understand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder to improve the mental health and well-being of users of the learning disability service.
The role will in involve psychological assessment and intervention for adults with severe and/or complex presentations at Trust sites and community visits. You'll also be supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
If you have Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, are HCPC-registered and want to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients with learning disabilities, we would love to hear from you!
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- Provide psychological assessment and intervention for adults with severe and/or complex presentations served by the North LD Team.
- Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
- Supervise and support psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- Provide ad hoc advice and guidance to colleagues in Oxfordshire from the LDT, inpatient wards, social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with psychological care needs.
- The post involves independent travel between Trust sites and community visits, and there may be potential risk of exposure to aggressive or unpredictable behaviour from clients and carers or family members in distress. The post- holder should be guided by the local team’s lone worker policy and Trust risk policy and their supervisor when undertaking visits.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties. 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.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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”
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 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.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling psychology
Desirable criteria
- Experience working with a Learning Disability Population
- Qualifications / training in clinical supervision
- Eligible for BABCP accreditation
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.
- 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 supervising others.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of running / co- running groups
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of working in the NHS
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional and accrediting bodies.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of Specialised psychological therapies with people with Learning Disabilities
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
- 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.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Excellent IT and keyboard skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
Desirable criteria
- An interest in working with people with Learning Disabilities
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations
Contractual requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between sites and within the community
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Emma Drane
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775540151
- 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.
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