Job summary
- Main area
- Oxon CAMHS
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (1 Year FT)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 267-OC7363125
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raglan House
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa - pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychotherapist
Band 7
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
We have an opportunity for a child and adolescent psychotherapist to join our friendly team within the Oxfordshire CAMHS Getting More Help CAMHS team. Bases are in Abingdon and Banbury.
You will be part of an experienced and reflective multi-disciplinary team offering generic and specialist assessments in addition to holding a protected child psychotherapy caseload. You will have the skills to make thoughtful contributions to MDT thinking and the confidence to work autonomously. You will offer a range of psychotherapy interventions including individual child psychotherapy, STPP, State of Mind Assessments and parent-child relationship focused interventions. Psychoanalytic thinking is valued in the team and there will be the chance to offer regular consultation. You will receive regular clinical supervision from our consultant child psychotherapist, as well as management supervision within an environment that values the mutual support and skills of team members. In addition, you will be part of a team of child psychotherapists across Oxford Health Trust who meet regularly to share our work and consider new learning. The Trust values staff well being and is keen to provide regular training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
- Caseload Management: Hold a protected psychotherapy caseload, offering assessments and a range of interventions including individual psychotherapy, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP), State of Mind Assessments, and parent–child interventions.
- Assessment & Treatment: Conduct psychoanalytic assessments for complex referrals and implement treatment plans based on psychodynamic principles.
- Therapeutic Delivery: Deliver highly specialist psychotherapy to children and adolescents, often in emotionally charged or complex family situations.
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Contribute to multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions and provide consultation to colleagues.
- Risk Management: Undertake risk assessments and advise others on risk-related issues.
- Care Coordination: Act as care coordinator where appropriate, ensuring communication with referrers and other professionals.
- Communication: Handle sensitive and complex information with skill, especially in emotionally intense or high-risk scenarios.
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 you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles.
Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount
- Pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD and PS for further information on the role for anything further please speak with Miriam Creaser for details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s level pre-clinical training at a training school recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and post– graduate training at doctoral level in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the ACP
- Maintenance of ACP Registration
Desirable criteria
- ACP Supervisors training
Skills & Competencies
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in professional supervision and an ability to deliver regular supervision to a range of professionals and psychotherapy trainees
- Masters or Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology consistent with psychoanalytic work
- 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
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Understanding of principles and methods of clinical audit, research and service evaluation
Desirable criteria
- and service evaluation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sufficient experience of working as a qualified psychotherapist within an NHS CAMHS clinic
- Advanced knowledge and skills in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and its effective application to the mental health problems of children and adolescents with complex disorders and diagnosis, including pervasive and severe emotional and psychological difficulties
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage competing demands / manage a caseload
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to other agencies
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising clinical staff
- Experience of group work
- Experience of working with or supervising trainee psychotherapists
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
- Miriam Creaser
- Job title
- Psychotherapy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901000
- 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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