Assistant Psychologist
Oxford Health NHS Trust
Oxford, OX3 7JH
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 September 2026
3 days left
Job description
Are you looking to start or continue your career working with Children's and Young people's Mental health? Are you compassionate, dedicated and enthus...
The CAMHS Crisis and Home treatment team, are a team of professionals from different professional backgrounds working towards the same goal and within the wider community team, sharing joint team structures such as team meetings and complex case discussions.
Under regular supervision from a Senior Clinical Psychologist, you will develop skills to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care including assessment and evidenced based psychological, intensive home based interventions.
In addition, you will support the service in areas of development of service evaluation and any other projects that are appropriate to the role, for example participation in audit, service evaluation and service development projects.
Oxfordshire CAMHS is a dedicated collection of teams and professionals, working together towards shared goals. There is an emphasis throughout the service and the Team is on staff wellbeing and training, as a new member of staff you will have access to a wide range of training in therapeutic models relevant to your role. Team members are encouraged to develop their specialist interests and build on their professional skills.
The successful candidate would be offered Clinical Supervision as well as Group Reflective Practice and any additional training required. We look forward to supporting interested candidates to gain valuable experience in child and adolescent mental health.
The successful candidate will have a genuine interest and experience in working with young people with mental health problems. In addition, they will demonstrate good communication skills, be very organised, flexible and IT literate (proficient with MS Office, including MS Excel abilities).
Please do not hesitate to contact us for an informal discussion about the role.
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
- Competitive pension scheme
- 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
Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional Psychology, Mental Health practice and research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working with people with emotional, behavioural and/or mental health/ learning difficulties.
Desirable
- Experience of working with families and/or carers
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision that have a number of Mental Health and social need
- Previous experience of audit and/ or research in a clinical setting
- Previous experience in an assistant psychology post
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients/parents and colleagues.
- An understanding of psychology applied to mental health care.
Desirable
- High standard of report writing.
Personal
Essential
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
Other
Essential
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
28 August 2026
Last checked
31 August 2026
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