Band 8a Clinical Psychologist

Location: WhiteleafCentre, Aylesbury HP20 1EG

Hours: 18.75hoursp/w

Why might this job interest you?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic andself-motivated Clinical Psychologist to join the team at Oxford Health. Youwill be a valued member of the Multidisciplinary team to interface across theservice and our clients.

Oxford Health iscommitted to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young peopleand vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

Main duties of the job

Contribution to care provision of patients by providing consultation tothe multidisciplinary team and ongoing support to create and implement care andtreatment plans.

Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy providedby any assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists andother clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care andtreatment.

Undertaking psychological assessment, including neuropsychologicalassessment where appropriate.

Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overallframework of local policies and procedures. To exercise responsibility for thesystematic governance of psychological practice within the ward to which thepost relates.

Responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions forindividuals, carers, families and groups adjusting and refining psychologicalformulations and drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining anumber of provisional hypotheses.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.