Psychologist/CBT Therapist -Oxon Adult Community Eating Disorders

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.

Job overview

Are you a qualified in psychology and seeking a new challenge in a challenging yet interesting & rewarding field?

We are passionate about continuing to imbed and build on these developments.

If you have interests you wish to develop, then please discuss with us. We will also consider applications from trainee counselling and clinical psychologists/CBT therapists who will soon be eligible for registration with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) or BABCP.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will be assessment and formulation, and to deliver high quality NICE concordant psychological treatment (both on a 1:1 and in group format) to patients and their carers/families who are referred to the eating disorder service.

The responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• To provide specialist assessments, including CBT assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To plan and implement formal CBT treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
• To implement appropriate CBT interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by CBT based standard care plans.

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 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 team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on the role, please refer to the attached job description.

or telephone 01865 902722/902315.

Person specification

Qualifications

• • Doctoral level training in clinical/ counselling psychology or Masters/Diploma in CBT with a core qualification in a field of mental health, including psychiatric nursing, social work, or occupational therapy.
• • Registration with HCPC or equivalent

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• BABCP accreditation OR Willingness to work towards accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, SfDBT or ACAT.

knowledge/skills

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for clients with severe and complex mental health problems
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and professional
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

• • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• • Knowledge of evidence models of treatment for Eating Disorders(MANTRA/CBT- ED/CBT-E/SSCM/CBT-T)
• • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.

experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient settings
• Demonstrate experience in providing CBT as a therapy
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course 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 working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of running/co-running groups.
• Experience of working with people with an eating disorder presentation

personal attributes

• A positive approach to working with adults with mental health difficulties.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Willingness to work flexibly

• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning
• strong abillty to reflect on practice
• 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.
• 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.
• Oxford Health is 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