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Job overview
This is a part-time role (22.5 hours per week) on a fixed contract of 12 months based at the Department of Experimental Psychology in central Oxford.
Would you like to make a difference and use your own experience to do something positive for others in the field of psychosis?
We are recruiting for a Peer Support Worker to join our Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis clinical research group to work on delivering a new six-month guided online programme called Feeling Safer. We hope to substantially improve outcomes for the large number of people with persecutory delusions who have not responded sufficiently to current treatment.
You'll work in a team including a site lead, a clinical/counselling psychologist and research assistants to engage individuals at the early stages of psychosis and deliver this specialist CBT intervention (Feeling Safer) with close supervision from a clinical psychologist; working within NHS services and clinical trials methodology.
If you have lived experience of psychosis, bipolar disorder, or severe depression, with particular experience related to feeling unsafe due to inaccurate worries of harm from others, and would like to share this to help others then we would love to hear from you.
We have provisionally reserved the afternoon of Thursday 22nd May for interviews. If you are unavailable then please mention this in your application and in certain circumstances we may be able to offer an alternative interview slot.
Main duties of the job
You'll deliver a new six-month guided online programme for the treatment of persecutory delusions: Feeling Safer. It is an accessible and expanded version of the face-to-face therapy called Feeling Safe. Users can access Feeling Safer whenever they choose via smartphone/computer/or tablet. A range of mental health workers can support the delivery of the treatment over six months. Six face-to-face sessions will be reserved for a key task: going out with patients into everyday situations to relearn safety. By providing Feeling Safe in an accessible version for use across the NHS, we aim to achieve substantially improved outcomes for people with persecutory delusions who have not responded sufficiently to current treatment.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
Working for our organisation
We are a large clinical research team working to understand why mental health problems happen and how they can be best treated psychologically. The O-CAP team, led by Prof Daniel Freeman, comprises approximately 30 people, including clinical psychologists, project coordinators, peer researchers, VR computer scientists, research assistants, DPhil students, and administrators. The key focus is on improving outcomes for patients with psychosis.
As a Trust we provide 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 or where you are, you will receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount
* Lease car scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Qualifications
* To be willing and able to complete OHFT Peer Support Worker Training.
* Qualified through experience as a ‘service user’ with personal experience of psychosis or bipolar disorder or severe depression, and experience of using mental health services.
Experience
* Experience of working with patients diagnosed with psychosis.
* Experience of recruiting to a research study.
* Experience of psychological research.
* Experience of working within the guidelines of the Data Protection Act and an understanding of the code of ethics and confidentiality in research.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of psychological approaches to psychosis.
* Ability to engage patients having experiences such as paranoia, hearing voices, anxiety, and depression.
* Knowledge of clinical trials methodology and experimental psychology.
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
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 Dr Felicity Waite Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address felicity.waite@psy.ox.ac.uk Telephone number 01865 618192 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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