# Assistant Psychologist - Youth Liaison and Diversion > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist-youth-liaison-and-diversion/d21f4774-9d78-4d07-ba67-e55e51206d37 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist-youth-liaison-and-diversion/d21f4774-9d78-4d07-ba67-e55e51206d37.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T15:13:39.459Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Headington_Oxford/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/CAMHS/CAMHS-v8245081 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8245081?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you looking to gain more clinical experience in mental health? We are looking for a full time Assistant Psychologist to join our Youth Liaison and Diversion team. We, in Youth Justice Liaison and Diversion, are a team based within the Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) who work with children and young people that are involved in offending behaviour or suspected of a criminal offence. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Assistant Psychologist to help our service delivery and support our ongoing development and the vital work our team do across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. ### Main duties of the job No day is the same in the Youth Liaison & Diversion Team, however a general overview of an Assistant Psychologist’s week would include the following: - Triaging new referrals with the clinicians, liaising, and supporting assessments with a clinician. An assessment in the community is most frequently completed at the young person's home, school or the team’s office. Following this, the Assistant Psychologist may complete risk assessments and a report of the assessment, as well as onward signposting, including internal referrals within CAMHS, to charities, and attending multi-agency meetings and liaising with professionals involved with the young person’s care. - For young people where potential neurodiversity is queried, this includes requesting, marking and presenting neurodiversity questionnaires. During the week the Assistant Psychologist would support young people currently in police custody, either through in-person or remote screenings, or through collaborative working with the team’s adult Liaison & Diversion colleagues based in custody. - On a case-by-case basis, the Assistant Psychologist may complete 1:1 CBT-informed sessions with young people under supervision of a consultant clinical psychologist. During the week, team office days allows for all members of the team to meet in person and discuss referrals. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We work in a variety of ways including consultation, assessment and intervention. The role supports the team whilst also being under the supervision of a consultant clinical psychologist, and contributes to the treatment of individuals as well as the service response more generally. We'll need you to be able to travel across the counties to visit custody suites and come into our office base in Maple House, but we also offer hybrid working (working from office base for minimum 2 days a week) and also some flexibility with working hours in alignment with service need - we know how important a good work/life balance is. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Experience and a good knowledge of Microsoft Office software and the ability to use specialised software, especially SPSS for Windows, for databases, analysis of research results, collating observation material and other uses - High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive - Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance - An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context - An understanding of psychology applied to health care **Desirable** - High standard of report writing ### Experience **Essential** - Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities - Experience of paid work in direct care provision **Desirable** - Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist (either in a paid or voluntary capacity) - Previous experience in a paid care capacity with people with mental health and neurodivergence - Previous experience in a paid care capacity within the NHS ### Qualifications **Essential** - An upper second-class honours degree or higher in Psychology - Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society **Desirable** - Further postgraduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis - Record of peer-reviewed publication ## Documents - [ap band 4 jd & ps (pdf, 529.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10556519) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.