Main area: Psychological therapies
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Part time hours available)
Job ref: 267-OA6997948
Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Keystone Banbury and Witney Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs
Town: Banbury and Witney
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum | Pro rata (Plus incentive package £3,500)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/03/2025 23:59
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist - Oxfordshire
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.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Job overview
We’re looking for a skilled and passionate Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join our team at the Keystone Wellbeing Hubs. This role involves providing psychological assessments and interventions to adults experiencing severe and/or complex mental health challenges, as well as offering support to their families and carers.
Joining us at an exciting stage of development, you’ll have the unique opportunity to contribute to the design, development, and co-production of our service, as we work to implement the principles of the Community Mental Health Framework.
In this role, you’ll also provide triage, consultation, and advice to the Hub’s Multidisciplinary Team and key stakeholders, using your research and service evaluation skills to propose and drive forward policy changes that impact the services we provide.
This is a full-time role; however, part-time hours can be considered. With this role come some opportunities to work from home; however, you will be primarily based in the office.
This role is eligible for an incentive scheme of £3,500 paid at intervals over an 18-month period. All payments are pro-rata, non-pensionable and subject to a clawback clause. Please note that only employees external to Oxford Health NHS are eligible for this scheme.
If you’re ready to make a real difference in the lives of those experiencing mental health difficulties and to shape the future of our service, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We believe in a holistic approach to wellbeing, so your work will blend direct psychological therapy with supporting trauma-informed and psychologically-informed practices across teams and pathways. You’ll be contributing to an environment that champions recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based care for individuals and their families.
We are looking for a psychologist with a passion for working with people experiencing complex mental health difficulties. You’ll be part of an integrated team, collaborating across services, including primary care, voluntary, and community mental health organisations.
In addition to offering direct individual therapy, you’ll have the chance to innovate and implement evidence-based practices like CBT, CFT, DBT, IPT, and MBCT in group interventions while developing your own expertise.
This role requires resilience and the ability to thrive in a multidisciplinary team environment, building strong relationships within the team. You’ll be making critical triage decisions, handling referrals, and supporting client groups with complex trauma, emotional needs, and diagnoses of personality disorders.
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
* 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
You should be able to demonstrate your use of evidence-based psychological practice in primary care settings. You will have the opportunity to develop, implement and evaluate innovative forms of delivery, including group-based interventions that are based on CBT, CFT, DBT, IPT and MBCT.
The Primary Care Mental Health Teams are an innovative approach to providing joined-up, holistic and person-centred care within the community.
You will be working within an integrated setting with colleagues from primary care, voluntary and community mental health services. We are a trauma-informed organisation.
Please see attached JD/PS for full duties.
Person specification
Knowledge
* 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.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
Qualifications
* 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 equivalent.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Further training or job-related aptitude and skill
* 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.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient 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 working in the NHS.
* Experience of running / co-running groups.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of supervising others.
* Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust-wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Clare Crole-Rees
Job title: Consultant Psychologist
Email address: clare.crolerees@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07974 745147
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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