Job summary
Are you a senior phycology professional looking for your next role? Or are you looking to take a step up into a senior/supervisory role?
We are seeking a friendly, compassionate, flexible, and creative HCPC registered senior psychologist to join our team as a fully integrated member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in adult acute inpatient wards.
You will be split across two acute wards (male and female), each with a full-time assistant psychologist, and offers opportunities to provide placements to trainees.
You will have a co-created job plan that is varied and flexible, with a supportive and visible consultant psychologist on site, and allocated time to pursue special interests or develop skills in line with the service. This position is crucial in ensuring patients receive high-quality psychological treatments within adult inpatient wards, and you will be a valued member of the team.
Our fast-growing service encourages innovation, with exciting plans for involvement in research trials, and offers excellent CPD and training opportunities to support career progression.
Main duties of the job
- Psychological assessments and time limited psychological interventions within an inpatient setting.
- Opportunities to work with a wide range of presentations on a 1:1 and with families.
- 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
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role
About us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"
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 apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job description
Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person Specification
Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registration
Desirable
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Other
Essential
- 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.
Person Specification
Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registration
Desirable
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Other
Essential
- 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.
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).
