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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-BM7330834-2B Vacancy ID: 7509711

Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Closed for applications on: 13-Oct-2025 00:02

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 13-Oct-2025 00:02

Location

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

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time
Flexible working

22.5 hours per week (would be discussed at interview)

Salary

Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum | pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8b)

Specialty

Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Getting Help Services

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 are delighted to be able to offer a new opportunity in Buckinghamshire CAMHS. This role is a chance to be at the forefront of our new way of working in our Getting Help Services, ensuring that services receive the clinical oversight and professional development of staff required to deliver safe and effective care.

This role involves the post holder working across our current Mental Health Support Teams and Targeted Services (low intensity), and High Intensity CBT clinicians. You will be required to work closely alongside the Service Manager and Operational Leads (Team Managers) for these services.

The post holder will be key to the service embedding the changes and ensuring, alongside our Service Manager and Operational Leads, that consistent and good quality care is given during the transition period and beyond.

Please refer to the attached job description for a full summary of the main responsibilities

We strongly encourage prospective candidates to get in touch for an informal discussion about the 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

Education

Essential criteria

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
Accredited or able to demonstrate that you are now accreditable with the BABCP as a high intensity CBT supervisor

Desirable criteria

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

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

Desirable criteria

Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups

Experience

Essential criteria

Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level within CAMHS
Experience of clinical or professional supervision of trainee or assistant psychologists or other psychologists.
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Post qualification experience of working with young people with complex presentation and co-morbid issues