Job summary
Are you passionate about changing the lives of vulnerable children?
Do you enjoy working in a variety of ways, including consultation, assessment and intervention?
Are you looking for further specialist training opportunities?
We're looking to recruit a Clinical Forensic Psychologist or a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to really make a difference to the lives of children and young people across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
The Child and Adolescent Harmful Behaviour Service (CAHBS) team works closely with other professionals to support young people who display signs of Harmful Sexual Behaviours. We offer consultation and specialist advice to other CAMHS services as well as supporting consultations to a wide professional network
Where necessary, we can offer highly specialist psychological assessments or supervise and co work these assessments.
Main duties of the job
On a typical day, you will have contact with a variety of teams about cases - both ongoing cases and new enquiries. Teams from NHS and social care, and schools and police all use the service to get advice or make referrals. As a lead for the service, you will co-ordinate the referrals and allocation of cases, supervise the staff and also undertake direct and indirect clinical work yourself. There is liaison around referrals in order to ensure multiagency responses and linking with safeguarding (within Trust) and the local MASH with social care.
Using your knowledge of clinical issues and models, you will ensure that colleagues are well trained and supervised in their clinical activity and be a resource for other agencies through consultation. The service is based upon a consultation model, with assessment and intervention as required, and you will be able to support these stages.
Some of the role will be ensuring that the team has sufficient resources to use/share, providing training to professionals, which include social workers, CAMHS clinicians, police and education. There are regular liaison/supervision with the Youth Justice Service (YOS).
On team meeting days you will chair/delegate the meeting and work with dedicated administration to make decisions on referrals/clinical input needed, ensure metrics are collated to measure service outcomes/performance. You will attend meetings with other services and teams, such as Child in Need and Child Protection meetings.
About us
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, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, some of your key duties will also include:
- Offering professional consultation & advice to multi-agency groups
- Facilitating training and offering resources to the wider professional network
- Offering direct treatment to young people with complex needs/displaying harmful sexual behaviour
- Close liaison and supervision of youth offending team and other clinicians
We are embedded within Specialist Services, so you will have unique opportunities to explore a career within Forensic CAMHS, as well as the wider CAMHS Teams. Across all these services and teams, you will be exposed to a range of professionals, such as Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Nurses who will be willing to share their knowledge with you and develop your expertise.
We understand just how important a healthy work-life balance is, so we have opportunities for flexible working; including hybrid working methods, flexible hours, and sometimes also offer you the chance to work compressed hours too!
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, some of your key duties will also include:
- Offering professional consultation & advice to multi-agency groups
- Facilitating training and offering resources to the wider professional network
- Offering direct treatment to young people with complex needs/displaying harmful sexual behaviour
- Close liaison and supervision of youth offending team and other clinicians
We are embedded within Specialist Services, so you will have unique opportunities to explore a career within Forensic CAMHS, as well as the wider CAMHS Teams. Across all these services and teams, you will be exposed to a range of professionals, such as Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Nurses who will be willing to share their knowledge with you and develop your expertise.
We understand just how important a healthy work-life balance is, so we have opportunities for flexible working; including hybrid working methods, flexible hours, and sometimes also offer you the chance to work compressed hours too!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical / counseling psychology or Psychotherapy
- Current registration with the relevant body
- Formal training in supervision of other staff
Desirable
- Professional Post graduate qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline
- Registration as clinical Supervisor
Knowledge
Essential
- 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 nonprofessional groups
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical forensic psychologist/systemic family therapist at a highly specialist level with young people
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional supervision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical / counseling psychology or Psychotherapy
- Current registration with the relevant body
- Formal training in supervision of other staff
Desirable
- Professional Post graduate qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline
- Registration as clinical Supervisor
Knowledge
Essential
- 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 nonprofessional groups
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical forensic psychologist/systemic family therapist at a highly specialist level with young people
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional supervision
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
