Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - City & South Oxfordshire
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | Abingdon |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75719148 |
Summary
Please note that this is an internal only role and therefore only current employees of Oxford Health are eligible to apply.
Variety, creativity, flexibility at work, and making a difference to people’s lives are some of the top reasons Clinical Psychologists love to work in our Learning Disabilities Services.
We are looking for a part-time Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our City & South Oxfordshire Learning Disability Team. As a service we are active within the regional LD SIG (Bucks, Berks and Oxon), and BPS Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities.
We are a friendly and supportive group with CPD and reflective practice prioritised and protected. We also have a pioneering Intensive Interaction service within the psychology team and there will be opportunities to learn from this approach.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills as a Clinical Psychologist, including specialist intervention and assessment skills and leadership opportunities (supervision, service development, consultation and more) within the Learning Disability Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Watch this video to find out what the best things are about being a Clinical Psychologist working with People with Learning Disabilities.
Main duties of the jobWithin the role you will have the opportunity to deliver a range of assessments: eligibility, dementia, behaviours of concern and (with additional training) autism.
You'll deliver a range of interventions: individual therapy (adapting CBT, third wave and/or systemic – and more!- as appropriate to the client and presenting problem), indirect support to carers and family teams (team formulations, co-creating PBS plans, carer support and education), consultation to colleagues (reflective case discussion meetings, formulation meetings) and supervision (assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists dependent on post qualification experience).
You will also have the opportunity to run psychology related teaching and training for the teams and to be a part of our teaching for the University of Oxford Clinical Psychology Clinical Psychology course. With the relevant post-qualification experience and training you will be supported to become a supervisor for trainee clinical psychologists.
Working for our organisationOxford 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
We work within a hybrid working from home/in office/community model and find ways to maintain social as well as professional links. The team cover a wide geographical area and visit service users in the community. Across the teams we also benefit from free tea and coffee as well as free parking at some of our bases.
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.
Person specification Knowledge Essential criteria- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional and accrediting bodies.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of Specialised psychological therapies with people with Learning Disabilities
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group
- 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
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Qualifications / training in clinical supervision
- Eligible for BABCP accreditation
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Excellent IT and keyboard skills
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
- 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 supervising others.
- Experience of running / co- running groups
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of working in the NHS
- An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
- An interest in working with people with Learning Disabilities
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations
- Ability to travel between sites and within the community
Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 720.3KB)
Recruiter Contact DetailsName: Siobhan Duke
Title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
Email: siobhan.duke@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01865 903100