Job summary
- Main area
- Oxfordshire Talking Therapies
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 267-OA7278539
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Abell House
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Oxfordshire Talking Therapies Team/Locality Lead
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 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's to join the service.
We are seeking a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist or other High Intensity Talking Therapies Practitioner to join our leadership team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with NHS experience and someone 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 and manager, 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
Working for our organisation
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
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and eligible to apply for BABCP accreditation or Professional clinical qualification e.g. RMN, Dip SW or OT and either completion of the IAPT High Intensity Therapist course or BABCP accreditation as well as experience of delivering psychological therapies
- Qualification relating to Supervision
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within the NHS and in a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- 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
- Experience of providing clinical supervision (at step 2 and step 3?)
- Experience of supervising therapeutic Group work
- Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts or working within a multicultural framework
Knowledge
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
- Well-developed skills and understanding in group dynamics and therapeutic group work
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body and BABCP
- Sound and practical knowledge of the IAPT programme and Stepped Care Model
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to collect routine data and use electronic audit and case management tools in an accurate and timely fashion.
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- High level of knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.
Desirable criteria
- access to a vehicle to use for work
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
- Sam Sadler
- Job title
- Deputy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901222
- 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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