Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Littlemore Mental Health Centre
Town: Oxford
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 plus an RSU allowance of £1,466 per annum | pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/03/2025 23:59
Highly Specialised Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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Job overview
The Forensic Psychology department is seeking to recruit a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist to join Thames House, our low secure women’s in-patient service. This role is either suitable for a Band 7 Psychologist who would like to develop into an 8a role, or for a person already working at 8a level.
You'll be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high quality psychological service within the unit, engaging with a challenging but rewarding population. The model of care at Thames House is based on attachment theory and is trauma-informed. There is an emphasis on close multi-disciplinary team working. Staff support and working with families/carers are an important part of the role.
This is a full-time role, although part-time applicants will be considered. The role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary.
Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to hold HCPC registration in order to be considered for this role
Main duties of the job
You'll be providing a highly specialist psychology service to a 26-bed low secure women's inpatient unit, including:
* Holding a clinical caseload, providing therapeutic input to individuals, groups, and family/carers, and contribute towards multi-disciplinary team meetings.
* Providing supervision to Assistant and/or Trainee Psychologists, and develop and deliver teaching and training.
* Service development, both at Thames House, and within the wider Forensic service.
* Undertaking highly specialist psychological assessments of complex cases.
* Utilising assessment techniques directly with clients and collects information from family members and others involved in the client’s care.
Person specification
Qualifications/Professional
* Completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology), Forensic Psychology or Counselling Psychology.
* Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
* Specialist Trauma Training, e.g. EMDR, NET or CBT-PTSD.
Knowledge and skills
* Knowledge and skills in use of psychological assessment, formulation and interventions with complex presenting problems.
* Skills in providing consultation and training from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific ‘difficult to treat’ groups.
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of working therapeutically with clients with complex needs.
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
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.
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.
Name: Claudia Koch
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address: Claudia.Koch@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 902790
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