Are you a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist looking to work in the Maternal Mental Health Service? Do you want access to wider training to further develop your skills and knowledge? If so, a great opportunity has arisen for a skilled clinician to provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to women presenting with mental health needs during and after pregnancy.
Based in Oxford, covering the county-wide geography of Oxfordshire and working alongside the expertise within the Perinatal Mental Health Team, you will have the opportunity to work as part of a skilled and supportive team. The role has strong links with local Maternity Services and wider Perinatal networks.
As an accomplished clinician, you will engage in and provide clinical supervision to psychological therapies colleagues as well as practitioners from other clinical backgrounds. Working alongside a range of other professionals, you will provide specialist psychological advice and consultation regarding formulation, diagnosis, and treatment.
You will inform risk assessment and management plans as well as planning and reviewing care plans. There are opportunities to further develop the service, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and recommendations from the Birth Trauma Enquiry. This will involve evaluation of the service and service development as necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Specialist psychological assessment and therapy to women with mental health needs during and after pregnancy.
2. Providing face-to-face 1:1 and group interventions.
3. Supervision and consultation relating to psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions.
4. Contributing to the ongoing service development of the Perinatal Mental Health Team as part of the Leadership Team.
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.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
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Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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 actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion. 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, which is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, including amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck, and we hope to hear from you!
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