Assistant Psychologist
Oxford
Full Time
£28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Expires: 07/05/2026
Band 4
Permanent
About the Role
Job overview
Do you have an upper second or first class honours degree in psychology?
Do you have experience of working with people with mental health problems?
We are looking for a new Assistant Psychologist to join an innovative service for adults with eating disorders, within the HOPE (Healthy Outcomes for People with Eating Disorders) Provider Collaborative led by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The Adult Eating Disorder Step Care Model is an innovative service operating across parts of South East and South West England.
The Provider Collaborative offers an alternative to inpatient hospital care by providing integrated step care approach and a new Tier 4 Clinical
Model developed by our team at Oxford Health. It currently comprises a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, nurses, dieticians, admin
and an art therapist.
The team work mostly virtually across the geographical footprint of the HOPE Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative. The team aims to
enable more people to access services in a timely way, potentially avoid admission and follow a robust treatment pathway to ensure that needs
are met in a therapeutic recovery-based treatment model.
The HOPE Provider Collaborative covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, BaNES (Bath and North East Somerset), Swindon & Wiltshire (BSW) and Gloucestershire.
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Psychologist role will support and enhance the psychological care of patients within the service by co-facilitating psychological assessments and providing psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist. This involves contributing towards the delivery of evidence based treatment and providing individual psychological and group sessions. Completing and scoring psychometric measures, clinical note taking and maintaining a data set are other key tasks, but this list is not exhaustive.
The role offers the chance for an assistant psychologist to develop both clinical and research skills, and we actively support development for those wishing to go on to doctoral level psychology degrees.
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
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.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Documents to Download
Step Care - AP JD (PDF, 504.6KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Layla Hamadi
Title: Clinical Psychologist
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07775115653