Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal Principle Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist-Oxford
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent: WTE 0.6
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (between 9-5.)
- Job ref
- 267-OA6270110-B
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Slade House
- Town
- Headington, Oxford
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Perinatal Principle Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist-Oxford
Band 8b
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 & enthusiastic Perinatal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist?
Are you passionate about making a real difference to patients with mental health difficulties who require the support of the Perinatal service?
This is a key role in the continuing development and leadership of our Perinatal Service in Oxfordshire.
We would really like to hear from you if you can demonstrate you have the following skills required for this role:
Main duties of the job
- Experience of leadership and Management of therapy staff
- Significant knowledge in your specialist therapy area
- A good working knowledge of effective treatments
- Sound clinical risk assessment and management
- Experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- Substantive experience of supervision with therapists and other clinical staff
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.
You will work together with the Psychological Therapies Clinical and Professional Lead, the Older Adult and Adult Mental Health Service Manager and the Perinatal Team to ensure we provide the best psychological therapy care for our patients. You will help develop and make improvements to our service.
You will be a key member of staff, supporting other staff working in the perinatal service. You will be working as part of a supportive and friendly team in Oxfordshire, helping staff work in a more informed psychological way, by providing advice for the care of patients and how psychological therapy can help.
Person specification
qualification
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996, as accredited by the British Psychological Society, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Qualifications / training in clinical supervision
- HCPC registration
- Full accreditation relevant to post
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Eligible for BABCP accreditation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist with post-qualification experience working at a Highly Specialist level
- 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 having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in perinatal mental health.
- 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. Experience of providing teaching and training to psychologists or other professional groups
- Experience of carrying out research, audit or service evaluation projects
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical/counseling psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for women presenting with mental health difficulties in the perinatal period
- Advanced knowledge of the impact of maternal mental illness of the baby, including impact on the mother-infant relationship.
- 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.
- 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.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload Excellent IT and keyboard skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
other
Essential criteria
- An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenny Guest
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771 890077
- 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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