Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (FTC)

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who wants to further develop your skills with neurodivergence in a friendly, supportive and innovative team? Are you passionate about delivering mental health support and quality diagnoses for the neurodivergent population in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?

We're recruiting a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join Bucks CAMHS team supporting Neurodiverse individuals. This role a 12 month fixed term basis.

You will join a well\-established, and knowledgeable multi\-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, including developing your leadership skills and supervision of others as and continuing professional development and research opportunities. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.

Please contact us to arrange a visit if you want to know more! We're able to be flexible on the hours worked with this role and can offer reduced weekly hours should a candidate be successful.

In this role, you'll be contributing to the triaging, assessment and intervention process for neurodivergent children and young people and experiencing mental health needs. You'll be assessing the mental health component of their experience and delivering evidence based interventions.

We work closely with families to build care plans and there's a lot of multi\-agency networking involved, as you'll be in contact with schools. the local authority, play organisations and charities.

We'll need you to participate in duty cover and liaison cover as well \- please get in touch with us if you'd like more information about this.

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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”

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 apply)


• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity \& Inclusion team

Comprehensive assessment

Shared formulation

Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence\-based interventions

Collaborative risk management

Support and supervision of colleagues

Multi\-agency working

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.

This listing is from indeed. View original listing ↗