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Job summary

Main area
CAMHS
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from point of employment)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
267-BM8357434
Employer
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sue Nicholls Centre
Town
Aylesbury
Salary
£28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/10/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Assistant Psychologist

Band 4

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

The Outreach Service for Children and Adolescents (OSCA) team aims to support and engage children, young people and families with complex needs by means of individualised home and community treatment packages.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short and long term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service with the OSCA team picking up the highest levels of need.

Service aims include:

• Reducing children and young people’s vulnerability to mental health crisis
• Maximising children and young people’s resilience
• Enabling children and young people with high levels of mental health need to be supported in their own homes or placements
• Offering choice to children, young people and their families and carers
• Avoiding inpatient admissions
• Reducing inpatient days
• Offering advice, support and supervision to systems supporting young people, such as addiction, adoption, Children’s Care and youth offending services.

Main duties of the job

  • To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care
  • Providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures
  • To assist in clinically related administration; conduct of audits; collection of statistics; development of audit and/or research projects; teaching and project work
  • To work closely with developing networks with a range of agencies including the Children, Young People and Families Directorate, police, Addiction Services, Adoption Services, YOS and voluntary sector providers as well as other pathways including Learning Disability Services, and other specialist services within Oxford Health Foundation Trust.

Working for our organisation

Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding. 

Give yourself the best chance of success by reviewing our Applicant Guide before applying. Your supporting statement should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Oxford Health delivers physical, mental health and social care services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our vision is "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team", and our values are Caring, Safe and Excellent.

We are proud to offer a supportive working environment with opportunities for career progression, learning and development, generous annual leave, pension benefits, wellbeing initiatives and staff networks

Detailed job description and main 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

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

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities
  • An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Work with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthNHS 75th BirthdayDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ashleigh Green
Job title
Operational Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01865901951
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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