Principal Clinical Psychologist Learning Disability Team

NHS; Banbury; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Banbury seeks a Principal Clinical Psychologist for a part-time position within the Community Learning Disability Team. The ideal candidate will provide clinical expertise and leadership in psychological assessments, risk management, and training for a multidisciplinary team. This role requires extensive experience in treating individuals with learning disabilities and a doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology. Join us in delivering outstanding community care!

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation options

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people with learning disabilities.
• Substantial experience in clinical and management supervision.
• Experience in integrated MDT settings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver direct assessment and intervention work with service users.
• Lead risk formulations and management plans.
• Foster psychological thinking within a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Risk management

Consultation

Psycho-education

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Principal Clinical Psychologist Learning Disability Team

Are you a highly skilled Principal Clinical Psychologist (Band 8b) ready to make a significant impact on the lives of adults with learning disabilities?

We are seeking a dedicated professional to join our dynamic Community Learning Disability Team. In this crucial part-time role, you will use a combination of direct therapeutic interventions and indirect consultation to support our clients and their networks across North and West Oxfordshire. While your primary focus will be regional, you will occasionally contribute to specialist assessments or clinics across the wider county.

Join us and help shape outstanding community care!

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will extend beyond direct service, establishing you as a key clinical leader:

Clinical Expertise: Deliver direct assessment, formulation, and intervention work with service users.

Consultation & Risk Management: Lead risk formulations and management plans through consultations with the team and external services.

Psycho-Education & Training: Deliver training and actively support other professionals to work in an effective, formulation-driven, and evidence-based way, managing risk and improving long‑term health outcomes.

Psychological Thinking: You will be instrumental in fostering and supporting the psychological thinking within the entire multi-disciplinary team.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the "candidate guide to making an application" which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.

As a Trust we provide 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
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups

Job responsibilities

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

qulifications

• Extensive experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people with learning disabilities across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services
• Substantial experience of conducting clinical and management supervision.
• Substantial experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of practice in highly integrated MDT settings
• Experience of the application of psychological therapies practice in different cultural contexts

Knowledge

• Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training, and supervised experience during a substantive period as a qualified psychologist.
• Experience of working with people with learning disabilities in developing, designing and delivering services and/or of reflecting on their own lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Experience

• Assessed experience of specialist and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of risk assessment, risk communication and risk management.

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.