CBT Therapist & Clinical Psychologist

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a part-time CBT Therapist or Clinical Psychologist to support the Wiltshire Mental Health Service. The role entails delivering mental health assessments, developing care plans, and managing a clinical caseload of children and young people. Ideal candidates will possess HCPC registration and experience in multi-disciplinary teams. This is an opportunity to work in a supportive environment, committed to developing clinical skills and career progression, with flexible working options available.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

NHS discounts

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Psychologist with demonstrable experience in CBT.
• Ability to deliver mental health assessments of children and young people.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mental health assessments and risk assessments.
• Develop holistic care plans in collaboration with families and agencies.
• Hold a clinical caseload of children and young people.

Skills

CBT skills

Clinical assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

HCPC registration

Postgraduate qualification in Psychology

Job description

Overview

Are you an HCPC registered Psychologist seeking a new challenge? We are looking for a part time CBT Therapist or Clinical Psychologist who is committed to supporting developing services as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This post would suit someone who is keen to develop their skills in the Getting More Help pathway. You will be part of our Wiltshire Mental Health Service. The service is designed to provide young people with expert help from a single point of access, and is part of the wider multi-disciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). You will be joining the Getting More Help Pathway within Melksham CAMHS, a rapidly evolving service which is committed to adapting to meet diverse and challenging demands and to maintaining high quality specialist assessment and intervention whilst being mindful of throughput, innovation and efficiencies. The Melksham CAMHS team is a supportive team with a particular focus on clinicians wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that clinicians are well supported. Teams managers work alongside clinicians to ensure that individual job plans are created to support clinicians in managing capacity of caseloads. We ensure that we celebrate our successes and acknowledge the hard work we do to support children and YP.

Responsibilities

• There will be opportunities to develop clinical skills through ongoing training.
• Work along side our multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Family therapists, Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrists.
• Deliver generic mental health assessments and risk assessments of children and young people. Depending on the needs of the YP this could either be on an urgent or routine basis.
• Working collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies you will develop holistic plans of cares which are evidence based.
• Hold a clinical caseload of children and young people who require a psychology/CBT intervention. You will be joining our psychology team and will also be expected to provide consultation/support to other members of the team to discuss possible CYP that may require a psychology intervention.

Role and team context

You will be joining the Getting More Help Pathway within Melksham CAMHS, a rapidly evolving service which is committed to adapting to meet diverse and challenging demands and to maintaining high quality specialist assessment and intervention whilst being mindful of throughput, innovation and efficiencies. The team emphasises a supportive environment and clinician wellbeing, with managers helping to create individual job plans to support caseload management.

Applicant guidance

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.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure that the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

What happens next

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. We are advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

Organisation values and commitments

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 and are an Equal Opportunities employer with internal networking groups to support our employees. We will look to make reasonable adjustments where possible to help you fulfil the role. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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. Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our reach and benefits

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 for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to increasing diversity in the workforce and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups including people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. 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" and our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent". We offer benefits including career progression opportunities, learning and development, generous annual leave, NHS discounts, pension, cycle to work, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders, staff accommodation (where available), and staff networks and support groups through our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.