Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

The Outreach Service for Children and Adolescents (OSCA) team aims to support and engage children, young people and families with complex needs by means of individualised home and community treatment packages.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short and long term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service with the OSCA team picking up the highest levels of need.

Service aims include:

• Reducing children and young people’s vulnerability to mental health crisis
• Maximising children and young people’s resilience
• Enabling children and young people with high levels of mental health need to be supported in their own homes or placements
• Offering choice to children, young people and their families and carers
• Avoiding inpatient admissions
• Reducing inpatient days
• Offering advice, support and supervision to systems supporting young people, such as addiction, adoption, Children’s Care and youth offending services.

Main duties of the job

• To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care
• Providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures
• To assist in clinically related administration; conduct of audits; collection of statistics; development of audit and/or research projects; teaching and project work
• To work closely with developing networks with a range of agencies including the Children, Young People and Families Directorate, police, Addiction Services, Adoption Services, YOS and voluntary sector providers as well as other pathways including Learning Disability Services, and other specialist services within Oxford Health Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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.