Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - CAMHS

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Aylesbury

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

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5 days ago

Job description

Job overview

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist passionate about working with children and young people, who wants to work flexibly in the community? Do you want to work in an organisation that values being caring, safe, and excellent? Do you have the skills and knowledge to help us deliver mental health support to children with intellectual disabilities and their families in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?

Then this role is for you.

You will join a friendly and supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision and use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions, influencing service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career and continuing professional development. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person, including their neurodivergence, mental health, and developmental profile.

If you are recently qualified or qualifying soon, please contact us to discuss the possibility of a Band 7 - 8a preceptorship.

This role is 0.8 WTE, but there are opportunities to make this full-time. If you are looking for a full-time position, please contact us.

Main duties of the job

Lead on dynamic, holistic, and evidence-based assessments to tailor quality, evidence-based psychological interventions for children with intellectual disabilities and their families.
Contribute to multi-professional assessment and formulation of the needs of the child and their family.
Work closely with families and the education and social care systems to empower them to help the child/young person reach their potential.
Assess and manage risk with a specialist understanding of how neurodivergence and intellectual disability contribute to and complicate presentations.
Ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to clients with complex mental health problems, including severe, enduring, and multiple disorders, and challenging behaviour.
Offer consultation and supervision, and support the work of other service staff and psychology clinical team members providing psychologically based care and treatment, according to expertise.
Provide training placements for Doctoral Trainee psychologists and a range of qualified and unqualified staff across mental health areas, as agreed.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist within CAMHS.

Contractual or other requirements

Essential criteria

Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post. Car owner/driver.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups.

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.
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.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.