Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist
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Exciting new role for a Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
Specialist Community Forensic Team covering Oxfordshire!
Do you want to work with forensic service users – to help reduce the length of their admissions and support them to successfully transition into the community? Are you creative and passionate about service development and trauma-informed care? Do you enjoy multiagency and multidisciplinary working? If so, this job might just be for you!
Our service users have complex mental health difficulties, often including severe and enduring mental health problems and trauma histories, as well as risk histories. Transitions are often a time of anxiety for most of us, but particularly so for our service users who often have complex attachment needs and may have spent a significant length of time in secure care. The Specialist Community Forensic Team aims to provide intensive in-reach support to inpatients to help them to prepare for and navigate their discharges and safely settle into life in the community. We also seek to provide support to other services, such as housing providers and local Adult Mental Health Teams, so that our service users can increasingly access non-forensic provision and ultimately transition into primary or secondary care services.
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The role includes supporting the MDT with developing psychological formulations and risk formulations, contributing to needs assessments, providing consultations and offering advice to other professionals/agencies/services, designing and delivering training, offering supervision, joint working, and direct therapeutic interventions with service users. The role involves a lot of interfacing with other teams, agencies and services. It is an exciting and varied position with lots of scope for creativity.
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”
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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
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Sarah Shanahan
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: sarah.shanahan@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07879 345096
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