Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (There may be opportunities for flexible or hybrid working if appropriate, and this would be subject to service need.)
- Job ref
- 267-BM8042886
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Peach Tree House
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Clinical Psychologist & Personal Assistant
Band 5
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 graduate psychologist looking for an interesting and varied role?
We are looking for an Assistant Psychologist and Personal Assistant to support the Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Associate Director for Psychological Professions - NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies. You will need to be well organised with excellent administrative skills. The Associate Director is registered blind, so a guide dog friendly applicant is a must!
NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies serves adults and older adults with Depression and Anxiety disorders across Buckinghamshire. Working in the service there are over 250 psychological therapists, psychological wellbeing practitioners, assistant psychologists, employment advisors and administrators, who help over 12,000 people each year.
As an Assistant Psychologist you will have a role in supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of patients within the service. You will also provide a professional and confidential PA service to the Associate Director in their role. Applicants from the Buckinghamshire area would be particularly welcome to apply. The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
Interviews to be held 29.06.26 (TBC) in person in Aylesbury.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a high level, professional and confidential Personal Assistant service to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Associate Director for Psychological Professions.
- Covering all aspects of administrative and organisational support including specific support to access information both electronic and paper based as well as performing delegated tasks as needed.
- To assist with access to physical and virtual environments. This includes travelling with the Associate Director and their guide dog to meetings, conferences, clinical settings etc locally, regionally and nationally.
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of patients within the Bucks Talking Therapies service. You will provide under the supervision of qualified psychological therapist, low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions and telephone assessments to clients with mild to moderate anxiety and depression in the Bucks Talking Therapies service.
See attached job description for full responsibilities & duties.
Working for our organisation
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- You will work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychological therapist and within the overall framework of the service policies and procedures including providing telephone assessment and delivering some group based low intensity interventions in different locations across Buckinghamshire.
- The Assistant’s work is managed and supervised weekly.
- To work at a number of venues across Bucks including Peach Tree House (Aylesbury) and Prospect House (High Wycombe).
- To work individually with patients in person, digitally or via the telephone.
- To liaise with GPs and members of Psychological Therapies Pathway services, professionals from other statutory and non-statutory agencies responsible for client care.
- The CBT group work involves working with clients in community venues. The work sometimes involves working with clients in emotionally charged or hostile situations. Work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, use interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities specifically anxiety and depression.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High level of written communication skills.
Other
Essential criteria
- Holds a current driving licence and with access to a car for work purposes
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support a visually impaired person and their guide dog to access physical and virtual environments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Pimm
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07798893900
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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