# Assistant Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/312871de-3817-461e-9fac-91edf30ebfb9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/312871de-3817-461e-9fac-91edf30ebfb9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Assistant psychologist - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from point of employment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-22T15:20:39.615Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Aylesbury/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/CAMHS/CAMHS-v8357434 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8357434?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities - An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context ### Experience **Essential** - Work with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities ### Qualifications **Essential** - An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology **Desirable** - Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis ## Documents - [assistant psychologist (pdf, 130.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10683583) - [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.