Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist2024-03-27T16:40:29+00:00
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Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist Job Vacancy in Oxford, England, UK
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Are you interested in complexity, longer-term therapeutic work, and close multi-disciplinary team working?
The Forensic Psychology department is seeking to recruit a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist to join both our Pre-Discharge unit based in Oxford and the Forensic Community Mental Health Team (FCMHT). The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high quality psychological service, engaging with a challenging but rewarding population. They will be encouraged to become actively involved in the promotion of psychological-mindedness across both services, including helping to promote a trauma-informed approach. They will join the senior leadership team at Lambourn House, helping to shape the culture and ethos of the unit. We welcome a range of psychological models and reflective thinking and creative approaches are highly valued. There is an emphasis on close multi-disciplinary team working. Staff support and working with families/carers are an important part of the role.
There will also be opportunities to lead on service wide projects in order to contribute significantly to improving the quality of the psychological services that we provide. Our psychology department is proud of the diversity of therapeutic approaches utilised in our work, where supervision and continuing professional development is prioritised.
For informal enquiries about the post, or to arrange a visit, please contact Dr Claudia Koch, Consultant Clinical Psychologist () or Dr Sarah Shanahan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (sarah.shanahan.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk).
This post is full-time. It includes an annual recruitment and retention payment for working in secure services.
Person specification
CertificatesTraining
Essential criteria
Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic psychology.
Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists.
Desirable criteria
Post qualification training in specialist area of clinical work, relevant to a forensic population.
Experience
Essential criteria
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
Desirable criteria
Experience of working therapeutically with difficult to treat clients.
Skills
Essential criteria
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging.
Desirable criteria
High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
Excellent opportunities for career progression
27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
Staff accommodation
Competitive pension scheme
Lease car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
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 positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
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.
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