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Job overview
Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who wants to further develop your skills with neurodivergence in a friendly, supportive and innovative team? Are you passionate about delivering mental health support and quality diagnoses for the neurodivergent population in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?
We're recruiting 2x Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join Bucks CAMHS team supporting Neurodiverse individuals. These roles will be on a part-time basis working 18.75 hours per week. 1 role will be at a qualified/experienced 8a level and the other a band 7 please let us know.
You will join a well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, including developing your leadership skills and supervision of others as and continuing professional development and research opportunities. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.
Please contact us to arrange a visit if you want to know more! We're able to be flexible on the hours worked with this role and can offer reduced weekly hours should a candidate be successful.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll be contributing to the triaging, assessment and intervention process for neurodivergent children and young people and experiencing mental health needs. You'll be assessing the mental health component of their experience and delivering evidence based interventions.
We work closely with families to build care plans and there's a lot of multi-agency networking involved, as you'll be in contact with schools. the local authority, play organisations and charities.
We'll need you to participate in duty cover and liaison cover as well - please get in touch with us if you'd like more information about this.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main duties of the job include:
- Comprehensive assessment
- Shared formulation
- Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence-based interventions
- Collaborative risk management
- Support and supervision of colleagues
- Multi-agency working
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.
Person specification
Knwoledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with conditions appropriate to the post.
Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of running / co-running groups
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with conditions appropriate to the post.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology including specifically models of Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Current HCPC registration as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist Desirable criteria Maximum
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology ,training and/or other fields of applied psychology. staff
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This advert is for Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (FTC) with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £64,750 per annum | pro-rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (contract). The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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