# Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Inpatient > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-counselling-psychologist-inpatient/fbbf2859-9443-48e1-8533-296b97c84c78 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-counselling-psychologist-inpatient/fbbf2859-9443-48e1-8533-296b97c84c78.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata if part time - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T09:20:58.776Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Mental_Health/Adult_Mental_Health-v8341233 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8341233?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties. - Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently. - Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. - 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. **Desirable** - An awareness of own strengths and limitations. ### Training **Essential** - Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology - HCPC registration **Desirable** - Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. - Qualifications / training in clinical supervision - Eligible for BABCP accreditation ### Experience **Essential** - 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 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 of supervising others. **Desirable** - Experience of running / co-running groups. - Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties. - Experience of working in the NHS. ### Knowledge 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 non-professional groups. - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. - Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional and accrediting bodies. ## Documents - [jd/ps (pdf, 720.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10665383) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.