Job description

Job responsibilities

We offer great CPD and training opportunities and have excellent links with the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health and Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training, which is hosted by the Trust. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. We also collaborate with Oxford Brookes University, Buckinghamshire New University, and the University of Bath.

We provide excellent opportunities for professional development to help you consolidate your therapy skills in a focused and supported way, monthly opportunities to meet psychological therapy colleagues from across the county for reflective practice groups and clinical updates.

You will be part of the Psychological Therapies Leadership Team who work together to ensure we provide the best psychological therapy care to our patients. You will help develop and make improvements to our service especially in the south locality.

As a Locality Lead you will be a key member of staff, supporting the other psychological therapy staff working in the locality, providing clinical supervision and line management. You will represent the psychological therapies south team with other senior colleagues within the south AMHT, you will help their staff work in a more informed psychological way, by providing advice for the care of their patients and how psychological therapy can help.

We really want to hear from you if you have the skills required for this role.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology (or equivalent training in Counselling Psychology with evidence of specific experience of an adult client group and neuropsychology assessment skills).
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Training and experience in supervision of qualified and unqualified staff
• Registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Desirable

• BABCP accreditation/eligibility

Skills

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of Clinical / Counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, * and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Knowledge of legislation and NHS policy and its implications for both clinical practice, professional management and service development in relation to the client group and mental health
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC/BPS.

Desirable

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality Disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience as a Principal Adult clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision of professional and clinical staff
• Significant experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified psychological therapist and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan

Desirable

• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical/counselling psychologists.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of collaborating with service users and carers in the development or review of service provision.

Personal

Essential

• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical/counselling psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.

Desirable

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.

Other

Essential

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical/counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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 .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

South AMHT

Abingdon AMHT

Abingdon

OX14 1AG

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