Are you qualified in psychology and seeking a new challenge in a rewarding field?
We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join the Oxfordshire Adult Community Eating Disorder (ACED) team based in Oxford. Over the past few years, the service has undergone significant transformation, including a skill mix review and successful recruitment, developing our internal pathways and collaborating with our system partners to enhance the Eating Disorder Pathways across primary and secondary care. We are passionate about continuing to build on these developments.
If you have interests you wish to develop, please discuss with us. We will also consider applications from trainee counselling and clinical psychologists/CBT therapists who will soon be eligible for registration with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) or BABCP.
Main duties of the job:
The main duties of the role will be assessment and formulation, and delivering high-quality NICE concordant psychological treatment (both on a 1:1 and in group format) to patients and their carers/families referred to the eating disorder service. The responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
1. Provide specialist assessments, including CBT assessments of clients referred to the team based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources, including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client's care.
2. Plan and implement formal CBT treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems based on the client's issues, employing methods of proven efficacy.
3. Implement appropriate CBT interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
4. Be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by CBT-based standard care plans.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
8. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just, and fully inclusive organizational 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 we serve.
9. 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 wherever possible, will always look to make reasonable adjustments to help you fulfill the role and recognize your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behavior our core values - safe, caring, and excellent.
10. 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 achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organizations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from various 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. If you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values but feel unsure about applying, 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 groups currently under-represented, including but not limited to: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing, including:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
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