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Job requirements
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Question 1: Experience with Service Users
Please describe a specific occasion when you worked with an individual experiencing a mental health difficulty and/or disability. What was your role, what challenges arose, and what did you learn from the experience
- Question 3: Communication in Emotive Situations
Describe a time when you had to communicate effectively in a highly emotive or challenging situation. What was the situation, how did you adapt your communication style, and what was the outcome?
- Question 4: Academic and Professional Readiness
How has your Psychology degree and/or eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society prepared you for this role? Please provide examples of specific modules, projects, dissertations, placements, or research experiences that you believe are particularly relevant.
- Question 2: Interest in Psychosis and Virtual Reality
What has specifically attracted you to the study and treatment of psychosis? Please include any books, research papers, training, placements, lectures, or personal experiences that have influenced your interest in psychological approaches and the use of virtual reality within mental health services.
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Job overview
We are recruiting an Assistant Psychologist to work across two innovative projects within Oxford Health.
The role is split equally between supporting the Psychological Professions Workforce Lead on workforce development projects and contributing to a pilot programme delivering Virtual Reality (VR) interventions for people experiencing psychosis across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
This role is ideal for someone interested in psychological approaches to psychosis, workforce development, and the use of digital technologies in mental health care. You will work closely with psychological professionals, multidisciplinary teams, and research colleagues while gaining experience across a range of clinical and strategic projects.
This is an opportunity to develop your skills while supporting the future of the psychological workforce and digitally enabled mental health services.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will support the Psychological Professions Workforce Lead, contributing to workforce development projects, communications, data collection and analysis, and the delivery of continuing professional development and training initiatives across the Trust.
Working alongside the Oxford Adult Mental Health team, the postholder will support the delivery of an innovative Virtual Reality (VR) programme for people experiencing psychosis. Responsibilities will include managing and triaging referrals, assessing suitability for VR interventions, undertaking clinical and research assessments, supporting training and intervention delivery, and contributing to the monitoring and evaluation of outcomes.
The postholder will also contribute to the local delivery of a multi-site implementation study of gameChange VR, an evidence-based VR therapy designed to reduce anxiety and avoidance in everyday situations for people experiencing psychosis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the detailed job description and guidance attached for further information on this role.
Main job description and responsibilities include:
- Under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, to form excellent relationships with adult mental health teams across the counties of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, to help clients access the game Change virtual reality (VR) intervention.
- To assist the project lead in the day-to-day running of the pilot implementation programme of virtual reality approaches.
- To screen and recruit clients into the game Change VR trial. This will involve: speaking to referrers regularly, including clinical team members and Oxford Health R&D; checking whether potential participants meet the trial eligibility criteria; and explaining the trial to potential participants.
- To have a high level of communication and organisational skills when working with patients, carers and colleagues.
- Being able to use databases in order to gather and analyse information.
- Interact effectively with staff from a range of disciplines.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Assistant Psychologist-gameChange VR project,Psychological Professions with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Assistant psychologist role. The advertised salary is £28,392 - £31,157 per annum. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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