Job summary
Are you passionate about mental health and want to make a difference in the lives of people in Oxfordshire and beyond?
Do you have the skills and experience to lead a team of professionals and foster a culture of learning and excellence?
If so, you might be the person we are looking for.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) is a leading provider of mental health services in the UK, offering high quality care to our local communities and specialist services nationally. We are also a teaching and research Trust, with strong links to Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University. Our values of caring, safe and excellent guide everything we do, and we expect our staff to share and demonstrate these values.
OHFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.
NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies provides evidence-based treatments such as CBT, IPT, Counselling for Depression for anxiety or depression and can also help people who have a comorbid long term physical health conditions.
If you are interested in growing professionally, while keeping your clinical skills up to date, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist or other High Intensity Talking Therapies Practitioner such as IPT, DIT or Counselling for Depression Practitioner to join our leadership team. You will be part of the Oxfordshire Talking Therapies leadership team and help ensure the quality of service delivery, including the work of psychological wellbeing practitioners at step 2 and high intensity therapists at step 3; with a special focus on the oversight of non-CBT modalities. You will offer clinical supervision and also line management with assistance from our operational team, advise on non-CBT treatment planning and scoping, consider non-CBT CPD needs and contribute to the well established role of Locality Lead in the service.
As a leader and manager, you will also have your own clinical caseload to maintain and enhance your clinical skills. We are dedicated to helping you grow professionally and clinically, and we care deeply about the wellbeing of our staff.We have a very engaged, wellbeing team in the service and we strive to create a supportive, collaborative, and productive culture.
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
Please see job description and person specification for further information or get in touch with us.
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- 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.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational 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 that we serve.
- 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 where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values safe, caring and excellent.
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for further information or get in touch with us.
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- 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.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational 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 that we serve.
- 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 where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values safe, caring and excellent.
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and eligible to apply for BABCP accreditation or Professional clinical qualification e.g. RMN, Dip SW or OT and either completion of the IAPT High Intensity Therapist course or BABCP accreditation as well as experience of delivering psychological therapies
- Qualification relating to Supervision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS and in a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of providing clinical supervision (at step 2 and step 3?)
- Experience of supervising therapeutic Group work
- Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts or working within a multicultural framework
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
- Well-developed skills and understanding in group dynamics and therapeutic group work
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body and BABCP
- Sound and practical knowledge of the IAPT programme and Stepped Care Model
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to collect routine data and use electronic audit and case management tools in an accurate and timely fashion.
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- High level of knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.
Desirable
- access to a vehicle to use for work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and eligible to apply for BABCP accreditation or Professional clinical qualification e.g. RMN, Dip SW or OT and either completion of the IAPT High Intensity Therapist course or BABCP accreditation as well as experience of delivering psychological therapies
- Qualification relating to Supervision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS and in a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of providing clinical supervision (at step 2 and step 3?)
- Experience of supervising therapeutic Group work
- Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts or working within a multicultural framework
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
- Well-developed skills and understanding in group dynamics and therapeutic group work
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body and BABCP
- Sound and practical knowledge of the IAPT programme and Stepped Care Model
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to collect routine data and use electronic audit and case management tools in an accurate and timely fashion.
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- High level of knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.
Desirable
- access to a vehicle to use for work
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
