Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Services - Developmental Role
- Grade
- Band 8a (Or Band 7 Development Post)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-SS5929355-C
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manzil Way Resource Centre
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £57,349 per annum/pro-rata (+ RSU allowance of £1446 per annum/pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Forensic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Oxford
Band 8a (Or Band 7 Development Post)
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
Are you creative and passionate about trauma informed care?
Do you want to work within an innovative community forensic
service?
We're looking for a Psychologist to join our Team either as a Band 8A or in a developmental role, as a Band 7 to Band 8A.
The Enhanced Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Service (EIIRMS) is an integrated collaboration between HMPPS and an Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Our service aims to
- Improve the psychological well-being of those subject to probation service involvement;
- Address psychological difficulties that are seen as barriers to engagement in psychological / psycho-social support services;
- Address the psychological difficulties functionally linked to risk or offending.
- Reduce the risk of serious harm.
We provide a psychological service to individuals with complex psychological, interpersonal and emotion regulation difficulties, often with developmental trauma who are at risk of significant harm to others (including violence and sexual violence).
The key purpose of the role includes identifying those individuals who might benefit from the service, conducting comprehensive assessments of psychological need, emotional well-being, and risk, provide case formulations and psychological interventions to enhance psychological well-being and reduce risk to the public.
This post attracts an annual RSU allowance payment of £1446 per annum.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will provide highly specialist psychological advice, consultancy, guidance and where appropriate supervision to other members of the MDT (e.g. nursing staff) who are involved in client assessment and who provide direct intervention in individual cases and with groups of clients.
You will be supporting the development of other members of the MDT in the appropriate identification and use of psychologically informed assessment methodologies and treatment interventions as part of a client’s agreed care plan. Alongside contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, by attendance at meetings at which service developments are planned and discussed and through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
You'll regularly undertake R&D activity of benefit to the Team and service as a whole, including where appropriate work evaluating current psychological practice, work related to the development of innovative psychological assessment and intervention procedures and work related to the better care of people within existing care systems. Designs, implements and evaluates research and projects as agreed.
Another part of the role will include project management within the Team/service as required, including complex audit and service evaluation with MDT colleagues that enhances the Team’s service provision.
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
- Undertakes specialist psychological assessments of complex cases, assessing personality, trauma, emotional function, and other psychological characteristics relevant to the development, maintenance and understanding of the client’s needs as appropriate.
- Develop complex formulations of client’s difficulties, drawing upon the findings of psychological assessments, relevant aspects of the case history and relevant psychological models, concepts and theory.
- Implements complex plans for psychological treatment and/or management of the client’s presenting problems that are based upon highly specialist knowledge and an appropriate conceptual framework, that employ psychological procedures and practices having an evidence base for their efficacy and/or an established theoretical basis for their use.
- Maintains a case load of clients for interventions, the size of which is determined in the light of service needs and objectives and delivers psychological treatments and therapeutic/management interventions to fidelity, protocol guidelines or appropriate professional standards.
- Develop and deliver therapeutic groups as appropriate, including for example group approaches to the management of emotions, psycho-educational groups to understand and support self-management of symptoms and problems, and other semi structured group interventions. Acts as therapist or co-therapist (with other qualified psychologists, Assistant Practitioners, or other designated clinicians) as appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology), or equivalent.
- Is a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing.
- Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
- 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 in specific ’difficult to treat’ groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group-based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients
- Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Cordwell
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07468715430
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