Oxfordshire Talking Therapies Team/Locality Lead

Job overview

Are you passionate about mental health and want to make a difference in the lives of people in Oxfordshire and beyond?

Do you have the skills and experience to lead a team of professionals and foster a culture of learning and excellence?

NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies provides evidence-based treatments such as CBT, IPT, Counselling for Depression for anxiety or depression and can also help people who have a comorbid long term physical health conditions. We are currently seeking Team/Locality Lead to join the service.

We are seeking a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, CBT Therapist or other High Intensity Talking Therapies Practitioner to join our leadership team on a part time basis.

This is an opportunity for someone with NHS experience and who is used to working in a multi-disciplinary team to develop and progress their career. You will have supervision experience and strong clinical experience across a range of care settings and demonstratable supervision experience.

As a leader, you will have your own clinical caseload to maintain and enhance your clinical skills. We are dedicated to helping you grow professionally and clinically, and we care deeply about the wellbeing of our staff. We have a very engaged, wellbeing team in the service and we strive to create a supportive, collaborative, and productive culture

If you are interested in growing professionally, while keeping your clinical skills up to date, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

The responsibilities of the role include:

• Making decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service referral criteria/protocols, accepting referrals or referring patients onto the relevant service or back to the referrer as necessary.
• To carry out highly specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, including discharge taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models
• To carry out risk assessments as per Trust policy and advise other team members on issues relating to patient risk when requested
• To provide a high-quality psychological treatment service in the form of one-to-one treatment, group treatment, over the telephone or online

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.