Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-OA6352268
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South AMHT
- Town
- Abingdon
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 Per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychological Therapist & Locality Lead - South Oxfordshire
Band 8c
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.
Job overview
Are you an experienced & innovative Clinical/Counselling Psychologist?
We are looking for you to join our service as a Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and Locality Lead.
This is a key role in the continuing development of psychological therapies within the integrated Adult Mental Health Teams (AMHTs) in Oxfordshire.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative person with extensive clinical experience, providing clinical leadership, service development, supervision, training and management.
You will be working closely with other senior Psychological Therapists and Adult Mental Health Team colleagues, together with the Clinical and Professional Lead, to develop and deliver the clinical service model in the South Oxfordshire Locality.
You will hold a small clinical caseload and will line manage psychological therapists within the locality.
Working for our organisation
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, 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”
At Oxford Health 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 may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We offer great CPD and training opportunities and have excellent links with the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health and Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training, which is hosted by the Trust. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. We also collaborate with Oxford Brookes University, Buckinghamshire New University, and the University of Bath.
We provide excellent opportunities for professional development to help you consolidate your therapy skills in a focused and supported way, monthly opportunities to meet psychological therapy colleagues from across the county for reflective practice groups and clinical updates.
You will be part of the Psychological Therapies Leadership Team who work together to ensure we provide the best psychological therapy care to our patients. You will help develop and make improvements to our service especially in the south locality.
As a Locality Lead you will be a key member of staff, supporting the other psychological therapy staff working in the locality, providing clinical supervision and line management. You will represent the psychological therapies south team with other senior colleagues within the south AMHT, you will help their staff work in a more informed psychological way, by providing advice for the care of their patients and how psychological therapy can help.
We really want to hear from you if you have the skills required for this role.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology (or equivalent training in Counselling Psychology with evidence of specific experience of an adult client group and neuropsychology assessment skills).
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Training and experience in supervision of qualified and unqualified staff
- Registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Desirable criteria
- BABCP accreditation/eligibility
Skills
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of Clinical / Counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, * and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge of legislation and NHS policy and its implications for both clinical practice, professional management and service development in relation to the client group and mental health
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC/BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality Disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience as a Principal Adult clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of professional and clinical staff
- Significant experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified psychological therapist and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Desirable criteria
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical/counselling psychologists.
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of collaborating with service users and carers in the development or review of service provision.
Personal
Essential criteria
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical/counselling psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
Desirable criteria
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical/counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Ryder
- Job title
- Oxfordshire Psychological Therapies Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 902005
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