Clinical/Counselling PsychologistNHS
Job summary
Are you passionate about supporting older adults with complex mental health needs?
Would you like to develop your clinical/counselling psychologist skills working within a specialist older adults psychological therapies team and making a genuine difference to patients' lives?
We are seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Psychological Therapies Team on a 12-month fixed-term contract to provide maternity leave cover. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to provide specialist psychological assessments and deliver evidence-based psychological interventions to older adults with a range of complex mental health needs, working as part of the North Oxfordshire Older Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT).
This post provides an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise within a secondary care psychological therapies team and gain valuable experience working with older adults in a supportive multidisciplinary locality team.
Main duties of the job
In this role, some of your key responsibilities will include to:
- Work as part of the locality psychological therapies team within the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, providing formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems.
- Be responsible for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning the patients mental health difficulties.
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to the wider Older Adult Community Mental Health Team to help develop their patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Receive professional clinical supervision for yourself from other appropriately trained senior psychological therapy staff.
- Contribute to the development and evaluation of the teams operational practices to ensure high quality, responsive and accessible services are available
Job description
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.
About us
Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
o Opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team