Job summary
Are you a highly skilled Principal Clinical Psychologist (Band 8b) ready to make a significant impact on the lives of adults with learning disabilities? Or are you looking to step up into a Principal Psychology role?
We are seeking a dedicated professional to join our dynamic Community Learning Disability Team. In this crucial part-time role working 22.5 hours per week, you will use a combination of direct therapeutic interventions and indirect consultation to support our clients and their networks across North and West Oxfordshire. While your primary focus will be regional, you will occasionally contribute to specialist assessments or clinics across the wider county.
This is excellent chance for an experienced clinician looking to grow their career.
You will have access to dedicated leadership development opportunities and be supported to progress your career within a forward-thinking, innovative service. We offer flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working, to support a healthy work-life balance.
Our team is proud to be research active, and you will have the opportunity to be directly involved in developing and delivering clinical trials of psychological interventions specifically designed for people with learning disabilities -- contributing to a growing evidence base that shapes care not just locally, but nationally.
Join us and help shape outstanding community care!
Main duties of the job
- Clinical Expertise: Deliver specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for adults with learning disabilities, using a range of evidence-based models tailored to individual needs.
- Consultation & Risk Management: Lead risk formulation and management planning through consultation with the multidisciplinary team and external services, providing specialist guidance to support safe, coordinated, and effective care.
- Psycho-Education & Training: Deliver training and support colleagues to work in a formulation-driven, evidence-based way, strengthening professional practice, managing risk, and improving long-term outcomes for service users.
- Embedding Psychological Thinking: Promote and embed psychological thinking across the multidisciplinary team, helping to develop a reflective, compassionate, and evidence-informed culture of care.
- Leadership & Career Development: Take on meaningful leadership responsibilities with support to develop leadership capability, offering clear opportunities to progress into more senior clinical or operational roles within Oxford Health.
- Research & Innovation: Contribute to a research-active department by supporting the design and delivery of clinical research and trials focused on interventions for people with learning disabilities.
About us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the "candidate guide to making an application" which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East 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"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount
- Pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
Person Specification
qulifications
Essential
- Extensive experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people with learning disabilities across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services
- Substantial experience of conducting clinical and management supervision.
- Substantial experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching and training.
Desirable
- Experience of practice in highly integrated MDT settings
- . Experience of the application of psychological therapies practice in different cultural contexts
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training, and supervised experience during a substantive period as a qualified psychologist.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with learning disabilities in developing, designing and delivering services and/or of reflecting on their own lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of risk assessment, risk communication and risk management.
Person Specification
qulifications
Essential
- Extensive experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people with learning disabilities across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services
- Substantial experience of conducting clinical and management supervision.
- Substantial experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching and training.
Desirable
- Experience of practice in highly integrated MDT settings
- . Experience of the application of psychological therapies practice in different cultural contexts
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training, and supervised experience during a substantive period as a qualified psychologist.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with learning disabilities in developing, designing and delivering services and/or of reflecting on their own lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of risk assessment, risk communication and risk management.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
