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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
Family Therapist/Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist - Keynsham
Closed for applications on: 8-Jan-2026 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Jan-2026 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Temple House Temple Court
- Town
- Keynsham
- Postcode
- BS31 1HA
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum | pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health 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.
Job overview
Are you Clinical Psychologist seeking a new challenge in mental health?
seeking We are looking for an experienced CAMHS practitioner with an up to date core profession and registration to join our Crisis and Home Treatment (CAHTS) team.
We are a close knit leadership team who provide a crisis and home treatment service to children and young people across Bristol, Swindon and Wiltshire CAMHS. This role would involve some home working and a clinical base can be agreed in one of our 5 CAMHS teams (Keynsham, Salisbury, Melksham, Marlborough or Swindon). We are looking for an individual who is keen to use their clinical skills to support children, young people and their families in crisis and the clinical and professional network around the young person.
We have a strong emphasis on training and the team has received training in NVR, Positive Behaviour Support, Motivational Interviewing and Eating Disorders over the last 6 months. We would be keen to hear about your area of clinical interest and are able to think about creating a job plan that will support your skills and expertise.
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- To provide a high provide therapeutic support to clients with complex mental health problems including severe, enduring and multiple disorders, and challenging behaviour.
- To offer advice, consultancy and supervision, and support the work of colleagues providing care and treatment, according to expertise.
- To provide training to a range of qualified and unqualified staff across mental health areas, as agreed.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, and contribute to research and training within the areas served by the teams and service.
- To be involved in service developments, as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
We are hugely committed to investing in our staff. Part of this commitment is our unique training strategy. By joining our team you will be able to access our comprehensive CAMHS training programmes, specifically adapted to you and your role.
We will work with you to identify any learning and development needs you have and to ensure you receive adequate time to attend training, as well facilitate your access to high quality management supervision to maintain your skills gained from this training. This will equip you to be the best you can be in your role, whilst also helping you to focus on your future and career development.
Our teams work together to provide support, treatment, advice and signposting to their patients, including the facilitation of short term interventions up to long term interventions and crisis care. You will be working alongside psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychotherapists and children’s wellbeing practitioners.
Other benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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We have full time and part time posts available but we can consider flexible working hours and would encourage you to have a conversation with us ahead of making a formal application if you have any questions.
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.
- 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy or Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Master’s level pre-clinical training at a training school recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and post–graduate training at doctoral level in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the ACP.
- Family Therapist: Registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent body.
- Clinical Psychologist: Registered with Health Care professionals Council.
- Psychotherapist: Maintenance of ACP Registration.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification in systemic therapy (for psychologists)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of Systemic Psychotherapy assessment, intervention and management
- Knowledge of and skill in using the variety of approaches and methods within systemic practice (i.e. social constructionist, narrative, solution focused, etc.) as required to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations.
- Skills in both live and indirect supervision of therapists and/or multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Evidence of continuing Professional Development as required by professional body guidelines
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post qualification experience of working as a therapist within a mental health setting.
- Experience of working with a Multi-Disciplinary Team Experience of supervising staff in systemic approaches.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and families.
- Experience of working with patients in mental health crisis.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Fry
- Job title
- Clare Fry, Consultant Mental Health Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785 663323
No longer accepting applications
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