Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Are you an experienced Clinical Psychologist seeking a role working with children in a specialist mental health service? Horizon, a multi-disciplinary and specialist mental health service in Oxfordshire CAMHS, works alongside professionals to support children, young people, and families who have been affected by sexual harm and abuse. We are seeking a full time Clinical Psychologist on a 12 month maternity contract.

Using a trauma-informed approach, we aim to help children and young people feel safer in themselves and in their environment. This will include providing consultation to professionals, undertaking specialist assessments, and focused psychological therapy to address difficulties that have arisen as a result of experience of sexual harm/abuse, such as trauma-related difficulties and high levels of shame/self-blame.

We are a highly experienced and passionate team, with expertise across a number of different areas including (interpersonal) trauma and trauma-focused working, impact of early adversity, multi-agency and contextual safeguarding, infant attachment and development, and compassion-focused interventions. With that in mind, Horizon leads a number of training events and workshops for a wider variety of audience, including for those in social care, education, and the third sector.

Main duties of the job

• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and formulate clients' needs using a range of assessment methods and information sources.
• Design and deliver evidence-based psychological interventions and treatment plans.
• Provide psychological support and interventions to individuals, families, carers and groups.
• Supervise and support trainee and assistant clinical psychologists.Contribute to the teaching and training of psychology staff and trainees.
• Advise managers on psychological, service delivery and organisational matters.

Horizon is a dynamic team, with strong collaborative links with the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research. We have a strong ethos of service evaluation and research, with ample opportunities to be involved in supporting the design, recruitment, and write-up of these projects.

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

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.