Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-BM6103831-A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whiteleaf Centre
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist - Aylesbury
Band 8b
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.
Job overview
Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist, part time, 3 days per week – Bucks Adult Autism Diagnostic and Intervention Service
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the Bucks Adult Autism Diagnostic and Intervention Service (2 days per week) and the Bucks Adult ADHD Service (1 day per week). The services are located together within Specialist Psychological Services for Adults and Older Adults. The service also includes Bucks Autism Reasonable Adjustments, a small team providing support to clinicians in the directorate to improve their work with autistic people. You will be based at The Whiteleaf Centre in Aylesbury and possibly Saffron House in High Wycombe, with the potential for some remote working.
Main duties of the job
Your role will involve providing triage, diagnostic assessments, consultations and interventions in line with NICE guidance and best practice. You will liaise and undertake joint work with members of the autism and ADHD MDT (including psychiatry, OT, nursing and SALT), Psychological Therapies colleagues, AMHT and inpatient ward colleagues, and other Trust staff. There will also be opportunities to provide training, clinical and line management supervision and consultation in line with your interests and capacity.
You should be a suitably qualified clinical or counselling psychologist with HCPC registration. You will have an interest and track record in working with adults with ASD and/or ADHD and a desire to work towards the best outcomes for autistic patients. You will also have a background in autism and ADHD diagnosis, but training in formal assessments can be provided if needed (e.g. the ADOS-2 and ADI-r).
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 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
- 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
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality highly specialist clinical psychology service to adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder across Buckinghamshire.
To provide highly specialized psychological assessment and treatment to clients referred to the team.
To select, administer score and interpret psychometric tests to assess different areas of functioning and formulate the strengths and weaknesses of the adult’s cognitive profile.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, qualified psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To provide ad hoc advice and guidance to colleagues in Buckinghamshire working in the Psychological Therapies Pathway, Adult Mental Health Teams, social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with ASD and ADHD.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of local policies and procedures.
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the ASD and ADHD service.
To take a lead in coordinating specialist therapeutic activity within the team and participate in disseminating skills to the wider service.
To utilise research skills, as a major requirement of the job, for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes which may impact on other professionals within the area served by the ASD and ADHD Service.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with ASD with mental health needs.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or Counselling psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996, as accredited by the British Psychological Society, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registration Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice.
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications/training in use of specialist psychometric assessments for ASD
Further Training or Job related aptitude and skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with ASD with mental health needs
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of specialist and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings.
- Experience of working with people with ASD
- Significant experience of the use and interpretation of psychometric assessments for ASD and ADHD
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with ASD and mental health needs
- 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Mitchell
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901620
- 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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