Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who wishes to make a difference to patients with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties, providing evidence-based treatments across Bath and North East Somerset?
We are a diverse and thriving team of professionals working together with the same goals to offer excellent and safe care to our patients. Our team is friendly, compassionate, and staff wellbeing sits at the forefront of our leadership.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our service for 12 months as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. This is a key role to be part of the psychological therapies team working within the CAMHS service across Bath and North East Somerset.
As a flexible employer, we would welcome discussions about opportunities we can offer in posts both full and part time.
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
We would really like to hear from you if you have skills in delivering therapy to this client group and can demonstrate:
* A good working knowledge of effective treatments.
* Sound clinical risk assessment and management.
* Experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
* Supervising and consulting with therapists, trainees or other clinical staff as appropriate to the role.
Working for your 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 Northeast 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, with monthly opportunities to meet psychological therapy colleagues from across the county for reflective practice groups and clinical updates.
We provide excellent accredited supervision by senior therapists to help you consolidate your therapy skills in a focused and supported way.
As a part of this role, you will:
* Work as part of the locality psychological therapies team within the Adult Mental Health Teams, providing formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems.
* Be responsible for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning the patient's mental health difficulties.
* Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to the wider Adult Mental Health Team to help develop their patients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
* Receive professional clinical supervision for yourself from other appropriately trained senior psychological therapy staff.
* Contribute to the development and evaluation of the team's operational practices to ensure high-quality, responsive, and accessible services are available.
For further details/informal visits contact:
Name: Rochelle Barden
Job title: Clinical & Professional Lead
Email address: rochelle.barden@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 903889
Additional contact 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Desirable criteria
* Pre-qualification training and qualification or experience in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with severe and complex mental health problems.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* 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.
* Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
Experience
Essential criteria
* 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 specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services, and inpatient settings.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in a multicultural framework.
* Experience of running/co-running groups.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* 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.
* A positive approach to working with adults with mental health difficulties.
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
Desirable criteria
* An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
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