We are recruiting for a
Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist to joint us on a
12 month fixed-term contract across two of our forensic community services.
Do you want to gain a wide breadth of experience across two well-supported and resourced teams? This role provides an opportunity to work 0.5 FTE in each of the following services: Buckinghamshire Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) and Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway service. We need someone who can engage with a wide range of different professionals and agencies to support either forensic mental health service users or people on probation to resettle and remain in the community after often long periods in prison or hospital.
The OPD team are based in Probation offices with the primary goal of enhancing risk management and sits alongside the Enhanced Intensive Integrated Risk Management Service (EIIRMS) which offers interventions to people on probation.
You'll contribute to needs assessments, developing MDT risk formulations, delivering consultations and offering advice to other agencies/services, designing and delivering training, offering supervision, joint working, and direct therapeutic interventions with service users.
We can offer this opportunity at either a Band 7 or 8a depending on your level of experience and knowledge. If you're ready for a challenging yet rewarding role within forensic services, we would love to hear from you!
- Provides direct clinical services to clients, their families and other carers, undertaking highly specialist psychological assessments and providing highly specialist individual and group based psychological therapy and intervention as appropriate and required.
- Facilitates the dissemination of effective evidence informed psychological practice within the team and service by supporting psychologically informed protocols, guidelines and procedures implemented by other members of the MDT.
- Provides teaching/training sessions/programmes in psychological principles and practice for other members of the MDT.
- Providing psychological consultations to Offender Managers/Probation Practitioners (OM/PPs), Approved Premises staff and other professionals working with the person on probation.
- Working closely with the Enhanced Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (E-IIRMS) to identify people on probation who are eligible for direct psychosocial interventions and psychological therapy.
- Conducting joint work sessions with people on probation and OM/PPs as pre-engagement/motivational work prior to a referral to E-IIRMS and delivering interventions to demonstrate a technique or approach to OM/PP with a view to deepening an understanding of the risk issue.
- Developing and delivering training and reflective practice for Probation teams and Approved Premises staff, with support from our wider department reflective practice supervision space.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John Cordwell Job title: Clinical Lead Thames Valley OPD Service Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07801284513
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.
