Job Summary
We are looking for a friendly, compassionate, flexible, and creative HCPC registered psychologist who enjoys working as a fully integrated member of the MDT in adult of working age acute inpatient wards.
The post is 18.75 hours; however, if you would like more hours, please contact us to consider what we can offer. We can offer up to full-time working hours.
You would work as part of one of the acute inpatient wards situated at Littlemore Mental Health Centre in Oxford. There is a full-time assistant psychologist on each ward and other inpatient psychologists on site inputting into the wards. There would be opportunities to offer placements to trainees.
You would have a clear co-created job plan that is varied and flexible with a supportive and visible consultant psychologist on site. 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 recognized as crucial in ensuring that patients get access to high-quality psychological treatments within the adult inpatient wards. You will be a valued member of the team.
We are a fast-growing service that encourages innovation. There are exciting plans for the service to be part of research trials.
We offer excellent CPD and training opportunities to support career progression.
We support flexible working, recognizing the importance of a good work-life balance and the need for your work to fit with external commitments.
Main Duties of the Job
* Psychological assessments and time-limited psychological interventions within an inpatient setting. Opportunities to work with a wide range of presentations on a 1:1 and with families.
* Facilitating team formulation sessions.
* Facilitating team reflective practice groups.
* Offering CPD workshops to multi-disciplinary staff.
* Consultation and encouraging staff teams to think psychologically.
* Attending and offering a psychological perspective in ward reviews and professional meetings.
* Developing and facilitating groups on acute inpatient wards.
* Experience of supervising therapists and other clinical staff.
About Us
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.
Job 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.
* 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 practice groups, team formulation groups, and CPD workshops for ward teams.
* Support initiatives that help to encourage a psychologically informed environment on the ward.
* 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 ward to which the post relates.
Person Specification
Training
Essential
* Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
* HCPC registration.
Desirable
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
* Qualifications/training in clinical supervision.
* Eligible for BABCP accreditation.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including inpatient, outpatient, community, and day services 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 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.
Desirable
* Experience of running/co-running groups.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working in the NHS.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* 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.
Other
Essential
* An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
* An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address
Littlemore Mental Health Centre
Sandford Road
Oxford
OX4 4XN
Employer's Website
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