Children & Young Person's Clinical Psychologist

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Aylesbury is seeking a part-time Psychologist to work with children and young people with complex needs. The role involves conducting psychological assessments, direct clinical work, and supporting multidisciplinary teams in service development. Applicants should have relevant qualifications in psychology and experience in clinical settings. Strong collaboration skills are essential, along with a commitment to high quality care.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with complex needs.
• Ability to conduct psychological assessments and brief interventions.
• Familiarity with multi-agency consultation and evaluations.

Responsibilities

• Work in a team to support children with complex needs.
• Conduct psychological assessments and develop intervention plans.
• Assist in the collection of data for research and evaluation.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Trauma-informed practice

Interprofessional collaboration

Education

Relevant psychology qualification

Job description

Are you looking for a new role in Psychology? Or looking to a step up from being newly qualified? We're looking for a part-time Psychologist to join us in Buckinghamshire CAMHS working 30 hours per week. This is a new post in a new development working from a mental health/neurodevelopmental perspective with children and young people with complex needs. You will work alongside clinical colleagues in a small team in Buckinghamshire as part of a wider associated development for the whole Thames Valley area. The development will be led by Oxford Health NHS FT following award of national 'Vanguard' status and associated funding from NHS England within the context of its long-term plan for children and young people. The Thames Valley-wide programme for children and young people with complex needs is centred around the implementation of a practice framework known as the 'Framework for Integrated Care' (FIC, outline attached). It is designed to improve outcomes for a cohort of vulnerable children and young people with complex needs who experience some of the highest levels of health inequality in society. Their needs are defined as 'complex', as they often are. The framework focuses on trauma-informed practice, cross-agency working and achievement of consensus across professionals and family by clinical formulation and support for professionals and others who are directly involved with young people., Clinicians working within the new development will be involved in direct clinical work, interprofessional liaison and training. In Buckinghamshire, clinicians will be co-located with a range of other services already working along the lines of the FIC frequently with young people with complex needs. These services already have strong links with other teams across CAMHS, within children's social care, youth justice, education and the voluntary and community sector. The successful applicant will be expected to support in every aspect of the service to ensure high quality service delivery to children, families and professionals. This will include contributing to, and writing up, multi-agency consultation and specialist assessments, supporting the Clinical Lead in service development and ongoing research, and will lead in the collation of outcome data for research and service evaluation. A significant part of the role will be to support the service in collection of routine data and create reports and assist in the development of service evaluation within the service with service users and stakeholder professionals as part of this evaluation. Other aspects will include to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and brief psychological interventions., 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 the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values. + 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're 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. + 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. + We are 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.
Band 8a 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 for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you. We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. Good luck and we hope to hear from you., As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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" 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 apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team