Job overview

Are you an experienced Clinician seeking a new challenge in a new initiative?

In the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services teams we are focused on ensuring young people gain access to the right care.

We are launching an initiative for one year to focus on young people and their families who require assessment and treatment from the Getting Help and Getting More help teams. You would be joining a specific team to focus on these young people and their families.

The team has a hybrid working model, combining face-to-face and remote working, with different bases across the county. Flexibility depending on where you live would be on an individual basis.

We are looking for clinicians who enjoy working with others, have a flexible approach to delivering treatment and enjoy a challenge. You will have a clear job plan setting out the expectations and will be fully supervised as well as working closely with the rest of the team for support.

We have a reputation for being creative, innovative, forward thinking, dynamic and research led. We have a strong ethos of collaboration, shared reflection and team working, with various opportunities to learn from one another and support ongoing professional development.

The role provides opportunities to work with a wide range of mental health presentations and to develop understanding of and skills in working with young people presenting with neurodiversity and would work closely with the current Multi-Disciplinary Teams.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to really get involved in the Psychology provision offered within the Oxford North Locality. On a day-to-day basis, this will include:

• Offering assessments.
• A focus on offering mental health assessment to young people who require the support and treatment from Oxfordshire CAMHS.
• Delivering psychological interventions using a range of models through 1:1 sessionsand joint parent and young person work.
• If required there may be involvement within various group interventions (including a CBT for OCD group, trauma-focused groups (including parent groups).

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

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.

• • Doctoral level training in clinical/ counselling psychology or Masters/Diploma in CBT with a core qualification in a field of mental health, including psychiatric nursing, social work, or occupational therapy.
• • Registration with HCPC or equivalent

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• BABCP accreditation OR Willingness to work towards accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, SfDBT or ACAT.

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for clients with severe and complex mental health problems
• 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 professional
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

• • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• • Knowledge of evidence models of treatment for Eating Disorders(MANTRA/CBT- ED/CBT-E/SSCM/CBT-T)
• • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient settings
• Demonstrate experience in providing CBT as a therapy
• 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 working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of running/co-running groups.
• Experience of working with people with an eating disorder presentation

• A positive approach to working with adults with mental health difficulties.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• 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
• Willingness to work flexibly

• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning
• strong abillty to reflect on practice

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Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Name: Mat Lister

Title: Head of Psychological Therapies

Email: matthew.lister@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone: 01865 902613