Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist -Oxfordshire

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist - Oxfordshire

We're looking for a skilled and passionate Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join our team at the Keystone Wellbeing Hubs. This role involves providing psychological assessments and interventions to adults experiencing severe and/or complex mental health challenges, as well as offering support to their families and carers.

Joining us at an exciting stage of development, you'll have the unique opportunity to contribute to the design, development, and co-production of our service, as we work to implement the principles of the Community Mental Health Framework.

In this role, you'll also provide triage, consultation, and advice to the Hub's Multidisciplinary Team and key stakeholders, using your research and service evaluation skills to propose and drive forward policy changes that impact the services we provide.

This is a full-time role; however, part-time hours can be considered. With this role come some opportunities to work from home; however, you will be primarily based in the office.

This role is eligible for an incentive scheme of £3,500 paid at intervals over an 18-month period. All payments are pro-rata, non-pensionable and subject to a clawback clause. Please note that only employees external to Oxford Health NHS are eligible for this scheme.

If you're ready to make a real difference in the lives of those experiencing mental health difficulties and to shape the future of our service, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We believe in a holistic approach to wellbeing, so your work will blend direct psychological therapy with supporting trauma-informed and psychologically-informed practices across teams and pathways. You'll be contributing to an environment that champions recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based care for individuals and their families.

We are looking for a psychologist with a passion for working with people experiencing complex mental health difficulties. You'll be part of an integrated team, collaborating across services, including primary care, voluntary, and community mental health organisations.

In addition to offering direct individual therapy, you'll have the chance to innovate and implement evidence-based practices like CBT, CFT, DBT, IPT, and MBCT in group interventions, while developing your own expertise.

This role requires resilience and the ability to thrive in a multidisciplinary team environment, building strong relationships within the team. You'll be making critical triage decisions, handling referrals, and supporting client groups with complex trauma, emotional needs, and diagnoses of personality disorders.

About us

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
• 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

Job responsibilities

You should be able to demonstrate your use of evidence-based psychological practice in primary care settings. You will have the opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative forms of delivery, including group-based interventions that are based on CBT, CFT, DBT, IPT, and MBCT.

The Primary Care Mental Health Teams are an innovative approach to providing joined-up, holistic, and person-centred care within the community.

You will be working within an integrated setting with colleagues from primary care, voluntary, and community mental health services. We are a trauma-informed organisation.

Please look at our website for more information about our Hubs: Keystone Mental Health Wellbeing Hubs

Please see attached JD/PS for full duties.

Person Specification Knowledge

• 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.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.

Qualifications

• 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 or equivalent.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Further training or job-related aptitude and skill

• 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.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services, and inpatient settings.
• 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 working in the NHS.
• Experience of running/co-running groups.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of supervising others.
• Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Keystone Banbury and Witney Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs

Unit 11a, Castle Street, Banbury, OX16 5UW

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

267-OA

Job locations

Keystone Banbury and Witney Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs

Unit 11a, Castle Street, Banbury, OX16 5UW