Psychologist / CBT Therapist
Are you an experienced Clinician seeking a new challenge in a new initiative?
In the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services teams, we are focused on ensuring young people gain access to the right care.
We are launching an initiative for one year to focus on young people and their families who require assessment and treatment from the Getting Help and Getting More Help teams. You would be joining a specific team to focus on these young people and their families.
The team has a full-time working model, combining face-to-face and remote working, with different bases across the county. Flexibility, depending on where you live, would be on an individual basis.
We are looking for A full time clinician who enjoys working with others, has a flexible approach to delivering treatment, and enjoys a challenge. You will have a clear job plan setting out the expectations, and you will be fully supervised, as well as working closely with the rest of the team for support.
We have a reputation for being creative, innovative, forward-thinking, dynamic, and research-led. We have a strong ethos of collaboration, shared reflection, and teamwork, with various opportunities to learn from one another and support ongoing professional development.
The role provides opportunities to work with a wide range of mental health presentations and to develop understanding of and skills in working with young people presenting with neurodiversity, and would work closely with the current Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
Role
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to really get involved in the Psychology provision offered within the Oxford North Locality. On a day-to-day basis, this will include:
- Offering assessments.
- A focus on offering mental health assessment to young people who require support and treatment from Oxfordshire CAMHS.
- Delivering psychological interventions using a range of models through 1:1 sessions and joint parent and young person work.
- If required, there may be involvement within various group interventions (including a CBT for OCD group, trauma-focused groups (including parent groups).
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.”
Benefits
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
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Mat Lister
Job title: Head of Psychological Therapies
Email address: matthew.lister@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 902613
