Assistant Clinical Psychologist

• Please note, this vacancy may close early once we have received sufficient applications*

Are you a Graduate Psychologist with the drive to join an experienced and highly motivated Specialist CAMHS Team to deliver responsive and effective services?

We are seeking an Assistant Psychologist to join our FASS team (Family Assessment and Safeguarding Service) and requirean enthusiastic, caring individual with some experience of working in mental health.

We are a mental health team, with expertise in attachment, family trauma, and family relationships. We help families, and the network supporting them, when there are concerns about risk and /or harm to children in their direct care.

We are part of specialist CAMHS services within Oxford Health NHS Trust. FASS work with parents, across Oxfordshire, where there are safeguarding concerns and complex relational difficulties within the family network, directly impacting on the parent and child relationship.

There is scope for wider training opportunities and in addition, they will demonstrate good communication skills, be very organised, flexible and IT literate (proficient with MS Office, including basic MS Excel abilities).

Under regular supervision from a Clinical Psychologist you will bedelivering high quality care and inputting into clinical pathway developments, working alongside highly experienced colleagueswith a multi-disciplinary background to assist in the consultations and triage of referrals.

There will be opportunity to train in MBT (mentalisation based therapy),Our focus is on formulating risk from a psychological and systemic perspective, and we provide guidance around case formulation, care planning and management of risks within the family.

As the role will involve participation in audit, service evaluation and service development projectsyou will support the service in collection of routine data and create reports for commissioners and assist in the development of service evaluation within the service. Previous experience of the above is desirable.

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!

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Staff accommodation
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

Please note:

• New starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
• Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.