Clinical or Counselling Psychologist & CBT Therapist

Transformationunitgm; Oxford; On-site; GBP 47,000 - GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Oxford is seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / CBT Therapist for a full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract. The role involves offering psychological assessments and interventions primarily for children and young people. You will work within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, contribute to clinical supervision, and engage in professional development across a range of psychological therapies. Candidates must have a doctoral degree and relevant experience in mental health settings.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Qualifications

• Knowledge of specialized psychological therapies for severe mental health issues.
• Experience in psychological assessment and treatment in diverse settings.
• Registration or due to apply for registration with HCPC.

Responsibilities

• Offer psychology assessments and interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision and support trainees.
• Deliver psychological consultation to professionals.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Experience with children and families

Education

Doctoral level training in psychology

Masters/Diploma in CBT

Job description

Main area Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed term contract) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm Monday-Friday) Job ref 267-OC7607136

Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Clock House Town Abingdon Salary £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/02/2026 23:59

Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / CBT Therapist

Band 7

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Are you looking to work with children and young people as a Psychologist/CBT Therapist?

We have an opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist to join our friendly psychology team within Getting More Help Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Abingdon on a full time basis for 12 months.

The team have a strong culture of working integratively. We believe understanding the context of the young person is fundamental to our work, and will often work in ways that are theoretically very integrative to meet the needs of our heterogeneous population.

We have a reputation for being creative, innovative, forward thinking, dynamic and research led. We have a strong ethos of collaboration, shared reflection and team working, with various opportunities to learn from one another and support ongoing professional development.

We welcome applications from qualified clinicians and those who are shortly due to complete their training. You will be part of an experienced and reflective multi-disciplinary team offering generic and specialist assessments in addition to holding a protected psychology caseload and contributing to the team’s work more broadly.

You will receive clinical supervision from our senior clinical psychologist, as well as management supervision within an environment that values the mutual support and skills of team members. We value staff wellbeing and are keen to provide regular training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to really get involved in the Psychology provision offered within the Oxford South Locality. On a day-to-day basis, this will include:

• Offering psychology assessments.
• Offering psychology consultation to both CAMHS clinicians (within and external to our team) and Multiagency services (e.g. social care and schools) providing opportunities to engage with other professionals to share and disseminate psychological knowledge/understanding.
• Delivering psychological interventions using a range of models through 1:1 sessions, group programmes and joint parent and young person work. There are opportunities for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Third Wave CBT, DNA-V (adolescent model for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) and Compassion Focused Therapy in line with the existing evidence bases
• Delivering clinical supervision and supporting Psychology Trainees (both CBT trainees and trainee Clinical Psychologists.
• Involvement within various group interventions (including a CBT for OCD group, trauma-focused groups (including parent groups) and a DNA-V group).
• To support the duty provision, by undertaking the role of duty on a rota basis as shared out within the team

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides 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
• 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
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The wellbeing of our Administrative and Clinical staff is top of our agenda; we have an active Wellbeing Team and regular opportunities for staff support. This includes reflective care space sessions for staff, supervision groups and monthly opportunities to socialise outside of work hours.

You will be offered supervision in specific therapy modalities and there are opportunities to develop clinical practice in systemic work if interested. We have family therapy clinics with reflective team practice (with a team behind the screen) and would welcome and offer opportunities for consultation and development of staff systemic practice.

As a service we are actively involved in developing our current service provision. This includes establishing a more trauma-informed offer for our young people and families and developing a package of responsive interventions. This is focused on ensuring access to support in a timely manner following referral. Linked to this development, there is the opportunity to get involved in service evaluation and research projects, if this is of interest.

Our Trust and the Oxford DClinPsy training course are keen to support psychologists in obtaining their BABCP accreditation if this is something they would like to work towards. Supervision and training opportunities are available in order to support this.

Training and development are a priority, and we support clinicians who want to challenge themselves and develop their knowledge and skill base. As a Trust we would like to support training in DNV-A and CBT Trauma Focused Therapy and there are opportunities for further development in modalities such as supervision skills and EMDR. Staff in the wider CAMHS teams are interested and proficient in a wide range of therapies and there is a good culture of skill sharing. All development opportunities will be considered through the PDR/Appraisal framework.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with severe and complex mental health problems
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology and psychotherapy.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health

Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional

• Registration/Due to apply for registration with HCPC (or equivalent)
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Masters/Diploma in CBT with a core qualification in a field of mental health, including psychiatric nursing, social work or occupational therapy.

Further Training or Job Related Aptitude and Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body.
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Willingness to work towards accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, SfDBT or ACAT.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient settings
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of running/corunning groups.
• Experience working with children or young people and their families

Contractual Requirements or other requirements

• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings.
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.