Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Development Post - Oxford

We are looking for a friendly, compassionate, flexible and creative HCPC registered psychologist who enjoys working as a fully integrated member of the MDT and is interested in developing your skills in acute inpatient wards.
You would work on one of our wards based at Littlemore Mental Health Centre. Every ward has a full time assistant psychologist. On site will be other practitioner psychologist inputting in to the acute inpatient wards.
The post is offering 18.75 hours however, if you would like more hours, please get in contact to negotiate. We could offer up to full time working hours in combination with another vacancy.
You would have a clear co created job plan that is varied and flexible with a supportive and visible consultant psychologist on site. There would also be allocated time to pursue a special interest or develop skills that would be in line with the service.
This role is recognised as crucial in ensuring that patients get access to high quality psychological treatments within the adult inpatient wards. You will be a valued member of the team.
We have a supportive and structured development scheme which allows you to develop your skills as a Band 7 psychologist to progress to meeting the competencies and consequently moving in to the role of b8a senior psychologist.
We are a fast growing service that encourages innovation. There are exciting plans for the service to be part research trials looking at adapting psychological interventions to inpatient wards, + Psychological assessments and time limited psychological interventions within an inpatient setting. Opportunities to work with a wide range of presentations on a 1:1 and with families.
+ Facilitating team formulation sessions,
+ Facilitating team reflective practise groups
+ Offering CPD workshops to multi-disciplinary staff.
+ Consultation and encouraging staff teams to think psychologically.
+ Attending and offering a psychological perspective in ward reviews and professional meetings
+ Developing and facilitating groups on acute inpatient wards.
+ Experience of supervising therapists and other clinical staff., Contribute to care provision of patients by providing consultation to the multidisciplinary team and giving ongoing support to create and implement care and treatment plans
Undertake psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments where appropriate
Deliver individual and group psychological interventions, where appropriate
Evaluate the effectiveness of individual and group interventions
Provide consultation and supervision to team colleagues in the delivery of psychologically informed treatments
Be a member of the ward leadership team alongside the Ward Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to assist with service improvement and the implementation of service changes.
Supervise and support psychological assessment and therapy provided by any assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
Facilitate reflective practise groups, team formulation groups and CPD workshops for ward teams.
Support initiatives that help to encourage a psychologically informed environment on the ward
Working 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 ward to which the post relates.
Please see attached JD/PS for further details of the role.
+ All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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