Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday -Friday)
- Job ref
- 267-OC7838574
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raglan House
- Town
- Cowley
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a Clinical Psychologist -Eating Disorders
Band 8a
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 an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist looking for a new challenge?
We have a new opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS Eating Disorders Team, where you will have the opportunity to use and develop your specialist skills.
We are seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join our team. We invest strongly in staff development, offering training, supervision and specialist interest groups to support skills in interventions such as FT-AN, CBT (including CBT-E) and NET.
As a senior team member, you will provide supervision, consultation and leadership, with extensive opportunities for further professional development in these areas.
You will work within our Specialist Eating Disorders Team, part of a CAMHS service alongside a Consultant Psychologist, Band 7 Psychologist, Clinical Associate Psychologists, Trainee Psychologists.
Staff wellbeing is central to our service. We are a highly supportive team, and managers work with you to ensure manageable caseloads and to help you develop special interests.
Main duties of the job
- Work within a multidisciplinary team including Psychologists, Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, CWPs, Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.
- Deliver high-quality specialist clinical psychology within the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.
- Provide assessment, formulation, risk assessment and evidence-based care plans for children and young people with eating disorders and complex mental health needs.
- Work collaboratively with partner agencies
Most clinical work is delivered face to face, with opportunities for home working depending on service needs and diary commitments.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles.
Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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”
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
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.
For further information about the specifics of this role please see the job description and person specification in the documents section. We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to find out more and discuss this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology including specifically models of psychopathology and psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Current HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Additional training in eating disorders specific intervention, such as FT-AN, CBT-E, CBT-T.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Application of doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis within clinical settings.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups, including eating disorders.
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessments and treatment of CAMHS clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and patient settings.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision in a specific modality, or any other relevant supervised practice experience including case presentations, supported by short courses approved by the Trust Head of Psychology, and assessed at interview.
- Experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist within CAMHS.
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of working with eating disorders.
- Experience of supervision of staff.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of running groups.
- Experience of supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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
- Dr Sonia Bues
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07887 831086
- 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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