Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-OA6298226
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Littlemore Mental Health Centre
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Per annum | Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal 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 passionate about and committed to working in acute inpatient care settings?
We are seeking a Principal Practitioner Psychologist to work both directly on our acute inpatient wards and provide expert supervision to other practitioner psychologists in the service. It would be a good opportunity to develop leadership skills and be part of an innovative and fast growing service.
You would work as part of one of the acute inpatient wards situated on the Littlemore Mental Health Centre site in Oxford. There will be assistant psychologists situated on the wards and opportunity to offer placements to trainees.
You would have a clear co-created job plan that is varied and flexible with a supportive consultant psychologist. There would also be allocated time to pursue a special interest or develop skills that would be in line with the service.
This role is recognised as crucial in ensuring that patients get access to high quality psychological treatments within the adult inpatient wards.
We are a fast growing service that encourages innovation. There are exciting plans for the service to be part research trials looking at adapting psychological interventions to inpatient wards.
We offer excellent CPD and training opportunities to support career progression.
We are open to part time and support flexible working, recognising the importance of a good work life balance and the need for your work to fit with external commitments.
Main duties of the job
Provide psychological assessment and intervention for adults with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties in an inpatient setting.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by Clinical/ Counselling Psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To work as part of the inpatient team providing advice and guidance to colleagues as well as to social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with psychological care needs.
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 inpatient wards.
To utilise research skills, as a requirement of the job, for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes which may impact on other professionals working in the inpatient service.
To take delegated leadership in specific area of clinical responsibility.
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 tea
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Contribute to care provision of patients by providing consultation to the multidisciplinary team and giving ongoing support to create and implement care and treatment plans
Offer support and clinical supervision to other practitioner psychologists working in inpatient care.
Undertake psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments where appropriate
Deliver individual and group psychological interventions, where appropriate
Evaluate the effectiveness of individual and group interventions
Provide consultation and supervision to team colleagues in the delivery of psychologically informed treatments
Be a member of the ward leadership team alongside the Ward Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to assist with service improvement and the implementation of service changes.
Supervise and support psychological assessment and therapy provided by any assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
Facilitate reflective practise groups, team formulation groups and CPD workshops for ward teams and psychology staff.
Support initiatives that help to encourage a psychologically informed environment on the wards
Working 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 ward to which the post relates.
Please see attached JD/PS for further details of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of working with complex patients in time-limited therapies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of different, specialised psychological therapies and how they are used for patients with severe and complex presentations
Qualifications
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
- HCPC registration or BABCP accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, ACAT or SfDBT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
- Experience of working in Mental Health services in an NHS setting working closely with others as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of offering clinical supervision to other psychological therapists
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working as part of a leadership team
- Experience of line managing other staff
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 Kelly Buffham
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07586516998
- 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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