Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Oxford EIS

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

Do you have experience in working with clients with psychosis and looking for a new challenge?

The Early Intervention in Psychosis Team at the Oxford Health Foundation Trust is looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist on a full-time basis (although part time/flexible will be considered).

You will have a Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and will be HCPC registered and BABCP accreditable. Previous experience in working with clients with psychosis and their carers using a CBT framework is essential.

Post-graduate training or experience in CBTp and FIp is required, and we are looking to support the post holder to develop their skills in delivering these interventions.

At the core of the role is clinical leadership and the post holder will provide clinical supervision and consultation to other members of the multi-disciplinary team, and will be able to contribute to audit, service development and clinically-relevant research.

Clinical supervision, career support, and CPD and research opportunities are provided.

Main duties of the job

This role is crucial in ensuring that patients get access to high quality evidence-based psychological treatments within the Oxfordshire Early Intervention in Psychosis Team.

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

• To provide clients referred to the service with a specialist Early Intervention assessment, which includes self-report measures, structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, in order to decide upon the best service and form of care.
• To use psychological formulation to plan and implement formal psychological intervention of a client’s mental health problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across in-patient, out-patient, community and domiciliary settings. To evaluate progress during therapy using clinician and patient-reported outcome measures.
• To select and deliver highly specialist evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, specialising in CBT and FI for psychosis.
• To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans to clients and monitor and evaluate progress during treatment.
• To act as keyworker for individuals whose needs are primarily for psychological therapy, as required.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision to junior psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists for all aspects of their work.

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 about the role and a more detailed overview of the responsibilities, please consult the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with relevant registration

• PhD in a clinically relevant area
• BABCP accredited

Skills

• Experienced CBTp practitioner (achieved or working towards)

• Qualified Family Intervention practitioner
• Training and skills in working with ASD, personality disorders, and PTSD

Experience

• Delivering supervised CBT for psychosis and bipolar disorder
• Multidisciplinary working
• Teaching, training and/or supervision

• Experience of working as a psychologist in EIS
• Working with clients with an At Risk Mental State for psychosis
• Experience of facilitating skills-based therapeutic groups

Knowledge

• Theory and practice of psychological therapies for clients with psychosis
• Research methodology

• Knowledge of National EIS standards

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Willingness to work flexibly and manage change
• Ability to travel between sites

• Current clean full driving licence and access to a car
• 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