Clinical Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorder Step Care - Oxford

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

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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.

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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 seeking a new challenge in clinical psychology making a difference in the lives of vulnerable adults?

Do you have experience in working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level?

The team will focus on people with eating disorders who meet the threshold for inpatient care. In some cases, admission will be prevented and in others, people will be stepped down to this model following a short inpatient admission. The AED Step Care maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist expertise within the HOPE Provider Collaborative ‘Step Care’ eating disorders service model and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment to patients referred to the service.

1. Starting well Pathway
2. Working Towards Recovery
3. Staying well Pathway

The model is underpinned by CBT-E and is fully integrated with community teams and inpatient services to offer a seamless service.

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

• Conduct specialized psychological assessments and formulations using complex data from tests, self-reports, rating scales, observations, and interviews with patients, families, and care teams.
• To make skilled evaluations to formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a model of integrated stepped care based upon CBT-E and other psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals to contribute directly to the patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework/formulation for the understanding and care of patients of the service.

Working for our organisation

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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
• Pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details please refer to the job description for additional details and key responsibilities.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two evidence-based psychological therapies for the treatment of eating disorders (e.g. CBT-ED, FT-AN, MANTRA etc.)

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies

Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

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

Experience

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level within eating disorders or equivalent demonstrable experience working with eating disorder patients and families across the lifespan
• Post qualification experience of working with patients with eating disorders and their families
• Experience of clinical or professional supervision of trainee or assistant psychologists or other psychologists
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of supervision of qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologists
• 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