Job summary
- Main area
- 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-BM6313800-A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whiteleaf Centre
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum pro rata plus incentive of £3,500
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Aylesbury
Band 8a
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
We are looking for 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist(s) to join the Buckinghamshire Adult Inpatient Teams!
Have you been wanting to work more flexibly whilst growing your skills and experience and progressing up the career ladder? Would you like to develop your leadership skills further? Are you interested in developing your skills while developing the services we provide to patients within mental health services?
We are keen to hear from psychological practitioners who are either ready for something new in their 8a role, ready the step to an 8a role, or who would be ideal for the support of a 7-8a preceptorship / development opportunity. We are interested in speaking to qualified/accredited psychological practitioners with systemic, CBT, or psychotherapy expertise.
We have a range of roles and sessions in the acute care pathway (Buckinghamshire) and lots of opportunities to work across or within several services. We have roles within the Acute Inpatient setting, female and male wards, as well as the newly formed Buckinghamshire Community Rehabilitation Team!
We would really love to hear from you – you know what you want to develop further, as well as roles you want to pursue, and we are really open to hearing your ideas and supporting your professional development!
This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 (pro-rata) which will be paid in instalments over an 18 month period. Please note that this scheme is not open to existing employees of Oxford Health.
Main duties of the job
The core work of the 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologists in acute inpatient services are to provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for adults with severe and/or complex mental health problems while they are on the ward, as well as working with teams to provide consultation, support and training and working with families and carers. The post holder(s) will also be working with the patients and teams for co-produced service growth and development as well as being involved in supervising trainees and assistant psychologists.
If you have had ideas about what might develop better services for the populations we serve, we would like to speak to you!
In the post you will receive expert clinical supervision and management support and will have access to a wide range of CPD activities alongside a strong network of psychological therapists in Buckinghamshire. There are excellent opportunities for service development, service evaluation/research and teaching/training. The service has excellent links with the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research and regularly has trainees doing clinical placements and research.
We are happy to support flexible working hours to fit with work life balance aspirations and external commitments.
For further details/informal visits please contact:
Dr Nargis Islam (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead, Inpatient Psychological Therapies, Bucks):
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
Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Patients on the in-patient wards and in the community rehabilitation service all have severe and/or complex mental health needs and the main job purpose will be:
1. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality, evidence based, specialist clinical psychology services to Buckinghamshire adult acute care pathway services (inpatient and community rehabilitation), This includes psychological assessments, and individual and group psychological interventions appropriate to acute care pathway settings.
2. To contribute to the provision of care to patients through direct and indirect consultation with the multidisciplinary team and ongoing support to create and implement care and treatment plans. Involvement in the ward leadership team alongside the Ward Senior Management Team and the Consultant Psychologist Clinical Lead for Inpatient Psychology to assist with service improvement and implement service changes.
3. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
4. To provide ad hoc consultation to, and to engage in collaborative working with colleagues in Buckinghamshire from in the acute and community services, i.e. CRHT, Adult Mental Health Teams, in-patient wards, social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with psychological care needs.
5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of local policies and procedures. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the In-patient teams.
6. To utilise research skills, as a major requirement of the job, for audit, policy and service development and research.
7. To propose and implement policy changes which may impact on other professionals working in the acute care and community pathway teams.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral Level training in clinical or counselling psychology, or due to qualify in 2024
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC or eligible for registration in 2024
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications, training and/or experience in clinical supervision
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methids of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
- Well-developed communication skills, written and orally to convey clinically sensitive information to clients and their families, and to professional colleagues and teams
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and / or complex mental health difficulties
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
- Experience of working in the NHS or social care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
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
- Dr Nargis Islam
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901620
- 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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