Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for their Buckinghamshire Urgent Care Pathway. The ideal candidate will join a dynamic team, providing therapeutic interventions and leading clinical practice, ultimately improving the psychological wellbeing of service users facing acute challenges.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Access to tailored learning and development

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with clients across the life course.
• Experience in NHS mental health services and multidisciplinary teams.
• HCPC registration required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership in crisis intervention.
• Conduct psychological assessments and interventions.
• Supervise assistant psychologists and trainees.

Skills

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Leadership

Therapeutic Skills

Education

Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Accreditation with BABCP, ACAT or SfDBT

Job description

We're recruiting aSenior Clinical/Counselling Psychologistto join our friendly, skilled, and developingUrgent Care Pathwayin Buckinghamshire.

Working clinically within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). You will be based in Aylesbury but may be requested to support service users alongside the High Wycombe team.

You will be expected to provide direct interventions including Assessment and Formulation and Brief Psychological Therapy, and Indirect Interventions supporting the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. There may be scope for you to embark upon slightly longer courses of Intervention if that would more effectively prepare service users to access the next stage of their psychological therapy pathway.

The role will require you to work with service users directly face to face and support psychosocial intervention work of colleagues and as the Senior Psychologist you will be supporting service users in a crucial point in their lives. This is a rewarding and creative role, one which has the potential to have a significant positive impact on a person’s life.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical Leadership: Provide clinical leadership within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), ensuring model fidelity and best practice adoption
• Psychological Assessment and Intervention: Conduct highly specialised psychological assessments and interventions for adults with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Supervision and Support: Supervise and support assistant psychologists, doctoral trainees, and other clinical team members in providing psychologically based care and treatment
• Service Development: Develop, coordinate, and ensure the systematic provision of a psychological service to theBuckinghamshire Crisis Resolution and Psychiatric Liaison teams
• Research and Governance: Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and propose policy changes impacting the team

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East 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”

At Oxford Health 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 may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion tea

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The teams have regular reflective practice and supportive, open cultures. As a member of the team, you will work closely with colleagues in our CMHTs and in-patient teams and play an important role in developing the crisis psychology pathway within Buckinghamshire Mental Health Services.

You will join our established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary teams which are part of the wider Buckinghamshire Urgent Care Services. We provide a wide range of evidence-based and innovative psychological therapies. The post will be attractive to clinical or counselling psychologists with a track record in working with people with acute and/or complex mental health problems.

You will receive expert clinical supervision and will have access to a wide range of CPD activities. There are excellent opportunities for service development, service evaluation/research and teaching/training.

We look forward to receiving your application if you have skills in delivering therapy to this client group, evidence of significant knowledge in your specialist therapy area, sound clinical risk assessment and management skills, experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, experience and enthusiasm to work collaboratively with colleagues in the wider mental health system and a desire to play a positive and proactive role within the Urgent Care Pathway as a colleague and clinical supervisor and as part of the leadership team.

The post is based at The Whiteleaf Centre and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals in Aylesbury, both of which are easily accessible by road and public transport and within walking distance of the town centre.

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.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of working with complex patients in time-limited therapies

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of different, specialised psychological therapies and how they are used for patients with severe and complex presentations

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996, as accredited by the British Psychological Society, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, ACAT or SfDBT
• HCPC registration or BABCP accreditation

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Experience of working in Mental Health services in an NHS setting working closely with others as part of a multidisciplinary team

Desirable criteria

• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working as part of a leadership team
• Experience of line managing other staff

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