Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Banbury

We are looking for a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our North Oxfordshire Learning Disability Team. As a service we are active within the regional LD SIG (Bucks, Berks and Oxon), and BPS Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities.
We are a friendly and supportive group with CPD and reflective practice prioritised and protected. We also have a pioneering Intensive Interaction service within the psychology team and there will be opportunities to learn from this approach.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills as a Clinical Psychologist, including specialist intervention and assessment skills and leadership opportunities (supervision, service development, consultation and more) within the Learning Disability Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Link: The best things about being a Clinical Psychologist working with People with Learning Disabilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKGNaAXhlM, Within the role you will have the opportunity to deliver a range of assessments: eligibility, dementia, behaviours of concern and (with additional training) autism.
You will have the opportunity to deliver a range of interventions: individual therapy (adapting CBT, third wave and/or systemic - and more!- as appropriate to the client and presenting problem), indirect support to carers and family teams (team formulations, co-creating PBS plans, carer support and education), consultation to colleagues (reflective case discussion meetings, formulation meetings) and supervision (assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists dependent on post qualification experience).
You will have the opportunity to run psychology related teaching and training for the teams and to be a part of our teaching for the University of Oxford Clinical Psychology Clinical Psychology course. With the relevant post-qualification experience and training you will be supported to become a supervisor for trainee clinical psychologists., We work within a hybrid working from home/in office/community model and find ways to maintain social as well as professional links. The team cover a wide geographical area and visit service users in the community. Across the teams we also benefit from free tea and coffee as well as free parking at some of our bases.
See attached JD/PS for full details.
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+ 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 are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ 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.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Variety, creativity, flexibility at work, and making a difference to people's lives are some of the top reasons Clinical Psychologists love to work in our Learning Disabilities Services.

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+ 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