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Job overview
Are you looking for your first role as a qualified Psychologist?
Or are you an experienced Psychologist therapist looking to work with children and young people?
We are currently recruiting Clinical Psychologists on a part time or full time basis.
In the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services North Oxford Getting More Help (CAMHS) team, we currently have a hybrid working model, combining face-to-face and remote working, with different bases across the county (including Banbury, Oxford, Bicester, and Witney).
The role provides opportunities to work with a wide range of mental health presentations and to develop understanding of and skills in working with young people presenting with neurodiversity.
We are a MDT comprising a range of different professions. This includes psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, social work, mental health nursing, family therapy and occupational therapy. The psychology team is comprised of Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists, alongside providing placements to trainee Clinical Psychologists and trainee Cognitive Behaviour Therapists. We are also supported by an admin team, who are well-embedded within the wider team.
Applications are welcomed from students due to qualify.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to really get involved in the Psychology provision offered within the Oxford North Locality. On a day-to-day basis, this will include:
- Offering assessments.
- Offering consultation to both CAMHS clinicians (within and external to our team) and Multiagency services (e.g. social care and schools) providing opportunities to engage with other professionals to share and disseminate psychological knowledge/understanding.
- Delivering psychological interventions using a range of models through 1:1 sessions, group programmes and joint parent and young person work. There are opportunities for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Third Wave CBT, DNA-V (adolescent model for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) and Compassion Focused Therapy in line with the existing evidence bases
- Delivering clinical supervision and supporting Psychology Trainees (both CBT trainees and trainee Clinical Psychologists.
- Involvement within various group interventions (including a CBT for OCD group, trauma-focused groups (including parent groups) and a DNA-V group).
- To support the duty provision, by undertaking the role of duty on a rota basis as shared out within the team.
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of running/corunning groups.
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with severe and complex mental health problems
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Contractual Requirements or other requirements
Essential
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings.
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential
- Registration/Due to apply for registration with HCPC (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Masters/Diploma in CBT with a core qualification in a field of mental health, including psychiatric nursing, social work or occupational therapy.
Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Willingness to work towards accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, SfDBT or ACAT.
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This advert is for Clinical Psychologist 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 - £56,515 pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (12 month fixed term maternity leave cover). The application deadline is 30 Jul 2026.
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