Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
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. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Key details
Location
Site: Warneford Hospital
Address: Warneford Lane
Town: Oxford
Postcode: OX3 7JX
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 18.75 hours per week
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata if part time
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8a)
Specialty
Main area: Adult Acute Inpatient
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 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.
Job overview
We are looking for a friendly, compassionate, flexible and creative HCPC registered psychologist who enjoys working as a fully integrated member of the MDT in adult of working age acute inpatient wards.
Post is 18.75 hours however, if you would like more hours, please contact us to consider what we can offer. We are able to offer up to full time working if you would prefer.
You would work as part of Allen ward situated at Warneford Hospital site in Oxford. There is already a part time psychologist working on this ward along with a full time assistant psychologist. There would be opportunity to offer placements to trainees.
You would have a clear co-created job plan that is varied and flexible with a supportive and visible consultant psychologist on site. There would also be allocated time to pursue a special interest or develop skills that would be in line with the service.
This role is recognised as crucial in ensuring that patients get access to high quality psychological treatments within the adult inpatient wards. You will be a valued member of the team.
We are a fast growing service that encourages innovation. There are exciting plans for the service to be part research trials.
We offer excellent CPD and training opportunities to support career progression.
We support flexible working, recognising the importance of a good work life balance and the need for your work to fit with external commitments.
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* Psychological assessments and time limited psychological interventions within an inpatient setting.
* Facilitating team formulation sessions.
* Facilitating team reflective practice groups.
* Offering CPD workshops to multi-disciplinary staff.
* Consultation and encouraging staff teams to think psychologically.
* Attending and offering a psychological perspective in ward reviews and professional meetings.
* Developing and facilitating groups on acute inpatient wards.
* Experience of supervising therapists and other clinical staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Contribute to care provision of patients by providing consultation to the multidisciplinary team and giving ongoing support to create and implement care and treatment plans.
* Undertake psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments where appropriate.
* Deliver individual and group psychological interventions, where appropriate.
* Evaluate the effectiveness of individual and group interventions.
* Provide consultation and supervision to team colleagues in the delivery of psychologically informed treatments.
* Be a member of the ward leadership team alongside the Ward Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to assist with service improvement and the implementation of service changes.
* Supervise and support psychological assessment and therapy provided by any assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
* Facilitate reflective practice groups, team formulation groups and CPD workshops for ward teams.
* Support initiatives that help to encourage a psychologically informed environment on the ward.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of local policies and procedures to exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the ward to which the post relates.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
* HCPC registration.
Desirable criteria
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
* Qualifications / training in clinical supervision.
* Eligible for BABCP accreditation.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including inpatient, outpatient, community, and day services 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 supervising others.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of running / co-running groups.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working in the NHS.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
* 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.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional and accrediting bodies.
Other
Essential criteria
* An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* 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.
Desirable criteria
* An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Dr Kelly Buffham
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07586516998
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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