Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who wants to further develop your skills with neurodivergence in a friendly, supportive and innovative team? Are you passionate about delivering mental health support and quality diagnoses for the neurodivergent population in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?

We\’re recruiting a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join Bucks CAMHS team supporting Neurodiverse individuals. This role is a part-time at 30 hours per week on a 12 month fixed term basis.

You will join a well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, including developing your leadership skills and supervision of others as and continuing professional development and research opportunities. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.

Please contact us to arrange a visit if you want to know more! We\’re able to be flexible on the hours worked with this role and can offer reduced weekly hours should a candidate be successful.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you\’ll be contributing to the triaging, assessment and intervention process for neurodivergent children and young people and experiencing mental health needs. You\’ll be assessing the mental health component of their experience and delivering evidence based interventions.

We work closely with families to build care plans and there\’s a lot of multi-agency networking involved, as you\’ll be in contact with schools, the local authority, play organisations and charities.

We\’ll need you to participate in duty cover and liaison cover as well – please get in touch with us if you\’d like more information about this.

About us

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:

• 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 apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the job include:

• Shared formulation
• Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence-based interventions
• Support and supervision of colleagues
• Multi-agency working

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.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person Specification

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with conditions appropriate to the post.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology including models of pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Current HCPC registration as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (Desirable)
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient 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 running / co-running groups
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with people with conditions appropriate to the post.

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.