Principal Clinical Psychologist OCC609467

Job summary

Salary range:£48,526 - £54,619 per annum - pending pay award

Work location: Union Street Children and Family Centre, Oxford

Hours per week: 37 - we are open to discussions about flexible working

Contract type: Permanent

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

Closing date: Friday 14th July 2023

Interview date: To be confirmed

Main duties of the job

You will be joining our multi-disciplinary Clinical Team led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Together we will strive towards a creative, dynamic, and evidence-based approach that strongly draws on trauma-informed, developmental, and systemic models. As a team we support each other in working in what is an often-complex area, including regular team meetings, supervision spaces, and monthly reflective practice facilitated by a specialist systemic therapist. As a team we will also be working closely with the clinical psychology doctoral training at Oxford University in developing opportunities for research and service innovation, and supervising trainee placements.

The Clinical Team sits within Oxfordshire County Councils (OCC) broader Childrens Social Care, so you will be working closely with other professionals, including social workers and residential workers. You will join a service which aims to be innovative in its approach to meeting the needs of vulnerable children, young people and families on the Edge of Care, for young people being cared for in OCCs Residential Childrens Homes and in their aim to maintain family connections and reunify children with their families where this is safe to do so. We look forward to welcoming you to the team to continue this work together.

About us

How about joining a vibrant and creative team composed by clinical psychologists, family therapist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, a family practitioner, an advisory teacher, outdoor specialists with mountain bikes and canoes? Your sessions can be held in one of our sites, in someones home, in a park guided by what would work for the person you are working with.

You will be working as part of our Clinical Team working with, and alongside, the Residential and Edge of Care Pathway (REOC). REOC is an innovative service providing support to families who are at risk of their child being taken into care, and for children (and their families) who are being cared for in one of the councils residential homes. You will also support interventions related reunification which is a to support parents and staff in considering the child returning home after being taken into care.

You will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills 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 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 cognitive behavioural therapy)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxfordshire County Council

Address

Family Solutions Service

Union Street

Oxford

OX4 1JP

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxfordshire County Council

Address

Family Solutions Service

Union Street

Oxford

OX4 1JP

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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