Assistant Psychologist
Aylesbury
Expired
Full Time
£28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Expires: Today at 23:59
Band 4
Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from point of employment)
About the Role
Job overview
The Outreach Service for Children and Adolescents (OSCA) team aims to support and engage children, young people and families with complex needs by means of individualised home and community treatment packages.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short and long term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service with the OSCA team picking up the highest levels of need.
Service aims include:
• Reducing children and young people’s vulnerability to mental health crisis
• Maximising children and young people’s resilience
• Enabling children and young people with high levels of mental health need to be supported in their own homes or placements
• Offering choice to children, young people and their families and carers
• Avoiding inpatient admissions
• Reducing inpatient days
• Offering advice, support and supervision to systems supporting young people, such as addiction, adoption, Children’s Care and youth offending services.
Main duties of the job
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care
- Providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures
- To assist in clinically related administration; conduct of audits; collection of statistics; development of audit and/or research projects; teaching and project work
- To work closely with developing networks with a range of agencies including the Children, Young People and Families Directorate, police, Addiction Services, Adoption Services, YOS and voluntary sector providers as well as other pathways including Learning Disability Services, and other specialist services within Oxford Health Foundation Trust.
Working for our organisation
Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.
Give yourself the best chance of success by reviewing our Applicant Guide before applying. Your supporting statement should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Oxford Health delivers physical, mental health and social care services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our vision is "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team", and our values are Caring, Safe and Excellent.
We are proud to offer a supportive working environment with opportunities for career progression, learning and development, generous annual leave, pension benefits, wellbeing initiatives and staff networks
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities
Documents to Download
Assistant Psychologist (PDF, 130.7KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Ashleigh Green
Title: Operational Lead
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01865901951