Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling / Forensic Psychologist

NHS; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Oxford is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling / Forensic Psychologist to join their Forensic Community Learning Disability Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing psychological care to service users with intellectual disabilities and/or autism, ensuring quality patient support. This role offers flexible working options and potential career growth within the organization. Previous experience in forensic mental health is preferred.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS discount for various retailers

Training and development opportunities

Competitive pension scheme

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified clinical, forensic or counselling psychologist.
• Experience in a forensic mental health setting is essential.
• Ability to provide supervision and consultation to other professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological interventions for clients with intellectual disabilities.
• Conduct psychological assessments and evaluations.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings and training.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Forensic psychology

Counseling skills

Communication skills

Report writing

Education

Doctoral level training in psychology

HCPC registration

Job description

Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling / Forensic Psychologist

The Forensic Community Learning Disability Team (FCLDT) psychology role is varied and involves a combination of direct work with forensic service users (with an intellectual disability and/or autism) and indirect work with teams/services with the aim of ensuring psychological thinking is integral to FCLDT patient care.

The service sits within the forensic service's Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT). The role of the newly established FCLDT is to support our service users to improve their quality of life, health and wellbeing; who are at risk of being admitted to secure services, or who are being discharged from hospital.

We are committed to becoming a trauma-informed service which focuses on being needs-led and service user centred, with an acknowledgement that transitions are an incredibly challenging time for many service users. The postholder will play an integral part in ensuring trauma-informed care is at the heart of the FCLDT's work.

This is a full-time role based at the Oxford Clinic in Littlemore. We can consider 30 hours per week for this role and we offer flexible working options. This is a preceptorship position, so could either be taken as a Band 7 development post, or a Band 8a. If commencing on a Band 7, you will be supported through supervision and CPD to progress into an 8a position within a given timeframe (usually between 1 year and 18 months).

Main duties of the job

• Accountability for own professional actions, exercises discretion in determining how objectives are to be achieved and works independently on a day-to-day basis within the overall framework of relevant policies and professional codes. Direct clinical services to clients, families and carers, undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing psychological intervention
• Dissemination of effective evidence-informed psychological practice within the team.
• Teaching and training for the MDT.
• Consultation, and supervision where agreed, to enable and support client related work of the MDT.
• Where required, supervises qualified and non-qualified psychologists.
• Governance, audit and clinical administrative activities.
• Applied research and development activities related to the needs of the clients and broader Psychology Service.
• Participates in supervision, appraisal and CPD
• Draws upon on advanced level specialist knowledge commensurate with a doctoral degree in psychology, eligibility for registration as a practitioner psychologist, and further specialist training and practice.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties. Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to hold HCPC registration in order to be considered for this role.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

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:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

As a clinical, forensic or counselling psychologist holding doctoral level professional qualifications, the postholder will provide highly specialist input to help understand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress, disorder, or difficulties arising from having an intellectual disability; and improve the mental health, well-being or quality of life of users of the service.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology, or its equivalent, as accredited by BPS
• HCPC registration
• Post qualification training in specialist area of clinical work, relevant to a forensic population clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology. HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist. or forensic psychology.
• Qualifications or training in use of specialist psychometrics relevant to working with people with an intellectual disability and/or neurodiversity.

Other

• Willingness and ability to travel between sites
• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance
• Commitment to working within a multicultural framework.

Knowledge

• Well developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical, counselling or forensic psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training
• Evidence of CPD
• Familiarity and working in line with ethical code of conduct
• Further post qualification study, training and supervised experience as a Specialist Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and DoH policy and implementation guideline

Further training

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level trainin
• Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problem
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to respond safely to physical aggression and to promote personal safety
• Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to provide teaching and training on relevant psychological topics
• Awareness and understanding of the differential needs of people from black and minority ethnic groups and of the service issues arising within a multicultural urban area
• Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
• Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with an intellectual disability and/or autism and forensic needs.
• Ability to work independently, reliably, consistently, flexibly and with initiative in circumstances where the post-holder has discretion to work within defined remit
• Commitment to the involvement of service users and carers on the development and delivery of care services.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group/system-based treatment of clients across the full range of care setting
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of working within forensic mental health services.
• Experience of working with people with an intellectual disability and/or neurodiversity.
• Experience of clinical risk assessment, formulation, and management.
• Formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise psychology trainees

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.

The Oxford Clinic, Littlemore Mental Health Centre

£47,810 to £62,682 a year+ Regional Secure Unit uplift

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Job share,Flexible working,Home or remote working,Compressed hours,Term time hours,Annualised hours

Reference number

267-FS7426742

Job locations

The Oxford Clinic, Littlemore Mental Health Centre