Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 267-OC7359344
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Slade Site
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Development Post 7-8a. pa -pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/08/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you a Clinical Psychologist looking for a new opportunity?
The CAMHS Hospital at Home for Eating Disorders team is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join its growing service. Developed with the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative, this innovative model supports young people who meet the threshold for inpatient care—either by preventing admission or providing a step-down alternative following a brief hospital stay.
The team delivers care in the community, using technology to provide support close to home, reduce admissions, shorten inpatient stays, and promote earlier discharge. You will work from home, so a confidential workspace is essential.
As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to psychological formulation, care planning, and service evaluation. You’ll also support the development of psychologically informed practice across the service.
We offer regular staff support, reflective practice, and access to training in various therapeutic models. You’ll be encouraged to pursue further development and take part in research and service improvement projects.
If you’re motivated to deliver high-quality care to young people and want to work in a collaborative and supportive team, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the psychology provision within the Hospital at Home Eating Disorder service, ensuring high-quality care for young people with complex and severe mental health needs.
- Provide individual and team formulations, psychological assessments, and interventions using a range of therapeutic models, including 1:1, group, and joint family work.
- Offer consultation, clinical supervision, and support to psychology colleagues, trainees, and wider team members involved in psychologically informed care.
- Contribute to service development, including the ongoing refinement of the psychology pathway, and apply research and audit skills to inform practice and quality improvement.
- Work autonomously within professional and service guidelines, with the ability to travel for training and team events, and maintain a confidential home working space.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”.
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 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
Contractual Requirements or Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently to oxford for team away days and training
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical/ counselling psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS / HPC
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills
Essential criteria
- 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.
- 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.
- Time management skills
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Excellent IT skills with experience using Microsoft software packages
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use teams
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient 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 supervision of staff.
- Experience in required field of post
- Post qualification experience in required field of post
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist within CAMHS.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision in a specific modality, or any other relevant supervised practice experience including case presentations, supported by short courses approved by the Trust Head of Psychology, and assessed at interview.
- Experience of teaching and training.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of running groups.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- A positive approach to working with adults children and young people with mental health difficulties.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- .Ability to reflect on own practice and willingness to be involved in supervision.
- Ability to communicate/listen formally and informally, verbally and in writing.
- Confident and articulate
- Flexible and resourceful in coping under pressure and with conflicting demands.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Morgan
- Job title
- Modern Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 903480
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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