Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Services - Eating Disorders
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 33.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-OA5849201-C
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warneford Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Eating Disorder Therapist - Clinical Psychologist - Oxford
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.
Job overview
Cotswold House is a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit based at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, offering 14 inpatient beds. We are looking for a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is registered with HCPC to join our diverse, innovative, and passionate multidisciplinary team.
With a reputation for excellence, our service provides a stepped-care model of care tailored to the individual’s needs for stabilisation and recovery.
Currently our service is piloting a whole-team Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-ED) approach. We offer a range of CBT-ED programmes and evidence-based treatments to assist a patient’s return to independent living, including work, training, or study. However, psychologists/ psychological therapists are welcome to draw upon other psychological models to compliment this, as appropriate to the patient’s individualised formulation. Further training and CPD opportunities are available to the successful applicant.
We're looking for someone with expertise in relation to working with adults with eating disorders to become part of our multi-disciplinary team. We work with adults (over 18) and with young people who are approaching their 18th birthday and likely to require support or treatment into adulthood. We lead the New Care Model, whereby we work with other care providers outside Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and support each other in the allocation of resources and shared experience.
Main duties of the job
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, e.g. psychological/psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct/indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care.
- To make skilled evaluations to formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting/refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models, and maintaining a number of hypotheses.
- To evaluate/make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical/therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family or group.
- To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based care plans, including communication with the referral agent /others involved in care.
Working for our organisation
There are professional links across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire, with structures in place for supervision/governance arrangements. You will be working with, and be supported by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist Eating Disorder Service. There are strong links with the Oxford Clinical Psychology Training Course.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East 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
The service operates 7 days per week 24 hours. This position will be for 4 days (33.5hrs) and will discuss which days which days from Monday – Friday.
Please see the job description and person specification attached to this advertisement for more information on the job role. If you'd like to find out more about the role or about the team, please do get in touch with Ellen Tutisani, Modern Matron on [email protected] or 01865 902534
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology including specific models of psychopathology and psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- As described in JD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist within Adult Mental Health.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to reflect on own practice and willingness to be involved in supervision.
- Confident and articulate.
- Flexible and resourceful in coping under pressure and with conflicting demands.
- Time management skills.
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
- Ellen Tutisani
- Job title
- Modern Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 902534
- 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.
Joanne Ryder
Consultant Counselling Psychologist
01865 902005
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