Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist - Oxford

Are you passionate about changing the lives of vulnerable children?
Do you enjoy working in a variety of ways, including consultation, assessment and intervention?
Are you looking for further specialist training opportunities?
We're looking to recruit a Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist or a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, to really make a difference to the lives of children and young people across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
The role is within our established Forensic CAMHS team, working within this wide service provision which supports young people getting into trouble due to their behaviour towards others, but also takes a lead on one aspect of our service: a specific provision for sexually harmful behaviour.
The Child and Adolescent Harmful Behaviour Service (CAHBS) team works closely with other professionals to support young people who display signs of Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB). We offer consultation and specialist advice to other CAMHS services as well as supporting consultations to a wide professional network. The service is well-known in the counties and valued by many professionals. We are often asked to provide training to others and currently do some regular introduction courses via the Safeguarding boards training programme.
Where necessary, we can offer highly specialist psychological assessments or supervise and co work these assessments or supervise and support others to do appropriate level work.
On a typical day, you will have contact with a variety of teams about cases - both ongoing and new, which may include referrals from/giving advice to NHS and social care, schools and police.
As a lead for the service, you will co-ordinate the referrals and allocation of cases, supervise the staff and also undertake direct/indirect clinical work yourself. There is liaison around referrals in order to ensure multiagency responses and linking with safeguarding (within Trust) and the local MASH with social care.
Using your knowledge of clinical issues/models, you will ensure that colleagues are well trained and supervised in their clinical activity and be a resource for other agencies through consultation. The service is based upon a consultation model, with assessment and intervention as required, and you will be able to support these stages. Being a psychological therapist, there is particular role in the team for supporting formulation, which includes support case formulation in multi-professional settings.
Some of the role will be ensuring that the team has sufficient resources to use/share, and providing training to other professionals.
On meeting days you will chair/delegate the CAHBS team meeting and work with dedicated administration to make decisions on referrals/clinical input needed, ensure metrics are collated to measure service outcomes/performance. You will attend meetings with other services and teams, such as Child in Need and Child Protection meetings.
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
As a senior Psychologist in the wider forensic team, you will also be part of the team responding to other types of risky behaviour (other types of harm to others). This follows a similar service model with a slightly different client group. There will be opportunities to supervise other colleagues in their work, and link with other agencies to support their inputs to young people and their families. The role will also involve supporting the local Youth Justice Service (YOS) in the counties in this and wider forensic work.
We have links with training courses and often support trainees in placement (forensic/clinical/other professionals). We have links to other National teams and are part of networks of practice. There are many opportunities to develop skills and competencies and support others in this too. Historically we have presented to conferences and contributed to research/articles. The role is supervised by a consultant clinical psychologist and there are opportunities to contribute to wider CAMHS service developments and thinking if interested.
We are embedded within Specialist Services, so you will have unique opportunities to explore a career within Forensic CAMHS, as well as the wider CAMHS Teams. Across all these services and teams, you will be exposed to a range of professionals, such as Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Nurses who will be willing to share their knowledge with you and develop your expertise.
We understand just how important a healthy work-life balance is, so we have opportunities for flexible working; including hybrid working methods, flexible hours, and sometimes also offer you the chance to work compressed hours too!
Some of your other key duties will also include:
Offering professional consultation & advice to multi-agency groups
Facilitating training and offering resources to the wider professional network
Offering direct treatment to young people with complex needs/displaying harmful sexual behaviour
Close liaison and supervision of youth offending team and other clinicians