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Job requirements
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
- Other
Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
- Other
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Other
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Training
Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Training
HCPC registration
- Experience
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including inpatient, outpatient, community, and day services settings.
- Experience
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.
- Experience
Experience of supervising others.
- Knowledge and Skills
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge and Skills
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.
- Knowledge and Skills
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge and Skills
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge and Skills
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional and accrediting bodies.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other
An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
- Training
Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Training
Qualifications / training in clinical supervision
- Training
Eligible for BABCP accreditation
- Experience
Experience of running / co-running groups.
- Experience
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience
Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
- Experience
Experience of working in the NHS.
Job overview
Are you an HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist seeking a new challenge?
We are looking for a an HCPC registered Psychologist who enjoys working as a fully integrated member of the MDT in adult of working age acute inpatient wards.
You would work as part of an adult acute male inpatient ward situated at Littlemore Mental Health Centre in Oxford. There will be a full time assistant psychologist working with you. There would be opportunity to offer placements to trainees.
We welcome applications from newly qualified psychologists and we have a successful preceptorship programme to aid development.
You would have a clear co-created job plan that is varied and flexible with a supportive and visible consultant psychologist. There would also be allocated time to pursue a special interest or develop skills that would be in line with the service.
This role is recognised as crucial in ensuring that patients get access to high quality psychological treatments within the adult inpatient wards. You will be a valued member of the team.
We are a fast growing service that encourages innovation. There are exciting plans for the service to be part of research trials.
We offer excellent CPD and training opportunities to support career progression.
We support flexible working, recognising the importance of a good work life balance and the need for your work to fit with external commitments.
Main duties of the job
- Psychological assessments and time limited psychological interventions within an inpatient setting. Opportunities to work with a wide range of presentations on a 1:1 and with families.
- Facilitating team formulation sessions,
- Facilitating team reflective practice groups
- Offering CPD workshops to multi-disciplinary staff.
- Consultation and encouraging staff teams to think psychologically.
- Attending and offering a psychological perspective in ward reviews and professional meetings
- Developing and facilitating groups on acute inpatient wards.
- Experience of supervising therapists and other clinical staff
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.
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.
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This advert is for Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Inpatient with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata if part time. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 22 Oct 2026.
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