Principal Clinical Psychologist OCC616520 inOxford inOxford PUBLISHED 7 MAY 2024

This role offers you extensive opportunity to develop your clinical skills by working with a varied range of needs and experiences, including working with families, children, and young people across a broad age range, and supporting staff teams.
Job summary

Salary range:£50,952 per annum (All clinical psychology roles are in accordance with the NHS Agenda for Change most recent agreement - 8a)

We might consider applications for this role as a band 7 on a preceptorship basis to work towards a band 8a. Band 7 Agenda for Change Salary £43,742.

Work location:Union Street Children and Family Centre, Oxford (Agile Working)

Hours per week:37 (30 hours/4 days will be considered)

Contract type:Permanent

Vetting requirements:This role is subject to a Criminal Records Check

Closing date:Friday 31st May 2024

Interview date:To be confirmed

Main duties of the job

In this specific role, you will be working as part of our Clinical Team working with, and alongside, the Family Solutions Service. The FSS consists of the Family Help and Statutory Teams who provide support to vulnerable children and their birth families to reduce safeguarding concerns and improve life chances for children aged between 0 and 19.

This role offers you extensive opportunity to develop your clinical skills by working with a varied range of needs and experiences, including working with families, children, and young people across a broad age range, and supporting staff teams. You will be able to draw upon and develop a wide range of skills in offering innovative interventions to help meet the diverse and often complex needs of this population, including providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions that draw on multiple models (such as systemic thinking, Video Interaction Guidance, MBT, trauma-informed approaches, and CBT).

As part of the wider Clinical team, you will continue to explore how to meet the needs of this population in a flexible way that combines creativity and innovation with drawing upon, and extending, the existing evidence base. This therefore offers a great opportunity for not only supporting the young people and families that we work with, but also taking a leadership role in extending and innovating practice in this area. This includes the opportunity to build on the teams research and publication in this area of work.

About us

How about joining our new Community Family Clinic initiative as part of a vibrant and innovative team?

We are expanding the offer for children, young people and families in Oxfordshire with an innovative Community Family Clinic initiative where you will be working with other Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists and Psychological Family Practitioners. This is a team with a strong value base who will fully support you. We want people in our team to thrive in what they do, so they can be the best professionals supporting the children and families we work with.

Oxfordshire County Council values the role Clinical Psychologists can play in supporting families during times of crises, over the past eight years we have more than quadrupled in numbers. Our outdoor therapeutic centre with mountain bikes, canoes, camping equipment and Land rovers located by the river at a central Oxford location offers an opportunity for truly innovative work. We are also very lucky to have monthly reflective practice with Arlene Vetere who also offers systemic supervision to our trainees. In addition, Oxfordshire County Council is an outstanding employer and offers very generous work conditions (agenda for change salary and a generous pension and relocation package amongst others).

We work closely together with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral training at Oxford University and supervise trainees in their placements as well as research work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.
Person Specification
Experience

Essential

  • For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .

Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .

Employer details

Employer name

Oxfordshire County Council
Address

Family Solutions Service

Union Street

Oxford

OX4 1JP

Employer's website
Job summary

Salary range:£50,952 per annum (All clinical psychology roles are in accordance with the NHS Agenda for Change most recent agreement - 8a)

We might consider applications for this role as a band 7 on a preceptorship basis to work towards a band 8a. Band 7 Agenda for Change Salary £43,742.

Work location:Union Street Children and Family Centre, Oxford (Agile Working)

Hours per week:37 (30 hours/4 days will be considered)

Contract type:Permanent

Vetting requirements:This role is subject to a Criminal Records Check

Closing date:Friday 31st May 2024

Interview date:To be confirmed

Main duties of the job

In this specific role, you will be working as part of our Clinical Team working with, and alongside, the Family Solutions Service. The FSS consists of the Family Help and Statutory Teams who provide support to vulnerable children and their birth families to reduce safeguarding concerns and improve life chances for children aged between 0 and 19.

This role offers you extensive opportunity to develop your clinical skills by working with a varied range of needs and experiences, including working with families, children, and young people across a broad age range, and supporting staff teams. You will be able to draw upon and develop a wide range of skills in offering innovative interventions to help meet the diverse and often complex needs of this population, including providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions that draw on multiple models (such as systemic thinking, Video Interaction Guidance, MBT, trauma-informed approaches, and CBT).

As part of the wider Clinical team, you will continue to explore how to meet the needs of this population in a flexible way that combines creativity and innovation with drawing upon, and extending, the existing evidence base. This therefore offers a great opportunity for not only supporting the young people and families that we work with, but also taking a leadership role in extending and innovating practice in this area. This includes the opportunity to build on the teams research and publication in this area of work.

About us

How about joining our new Community Family Clinic initiative as part of a vibrant and innovative team?

We are expanding the offer for children, young people and families in Oxfordshire with an innovative Community Family Clinic initiative where you will be working with other Clinical Psychologists, Family Therapists and Psychological Family Practitioners. This is a team with a strong value base who will fully support you. We want people in our team to thrive in what they do, so they can be the best professionals supporting the children and families we work with.

Oxfordshire County Council values the role Clinical Psychologists can play in supporting families during times of crises, over the past eight years we have more than quadrupled in numbers. Our outdoor therapeutic centre with mountain bikes, canoes, camping equipment and Land rovers located by the river at a central Oxford location offers an opportunity for truly innovative work. We are also very lucky to have monthly reflective practice with Arlene Vetere who also offers systemic supervision to our trainees. In addition, Oxfordshire County Council is an outstanding employer and offers very generous work conditions (agenda for change salary and a generous pension and relocation package amongst others).

We work closely together with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral training at Oxford University and supervise trainees in their placements as well as research work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.
Person Specification
Experience

Essential

  • For further information about the role, please find attached the full Job Description and Selection Criteria.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .

Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .

Employer details

Employer name

Oxfordshire County Council
Address

Family Solutions Service

Union Street

Oxford

OX4 1JP

Employer's website


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