The post-holder will provide direct, face-to-face sessions for staff who are referred into the service. They will be responsible for supporting waiting list management and undertaking assessment and treatment work with staff members alongside clinical work with staff groups. They will engage in active audit and service development associated with the aim of providing a high quality, evidence based service with equitable access to all members of the OUH community.
Responsibilities
* Provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Staff Support Service, using, interpreting and integrating complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews.
* Develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
* Develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods with evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
* Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, teams and groups, within and across staffing teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
* Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a workload in line with service guidelines.
* Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals to support formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
* Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care for all staff across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and give advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
* Communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans of staff under their care.
* Monitor and evaluate progress during both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and provide appropriate reports.
* Produce reports on staff in a timely manner that convey the key findings of psychological assessment, formulation and treatment outcome in a way that is understandable to recipients (e.g., managers, GPs, Occupational health colleagues or Mental Health Services).
* Assist in management of the team caseload.
* Work in partnership with other disciplines and maintain links with statutory, non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
* Record activity and outcome data as required by the Psychological Medicine Senior Management Team.
* Provide expertise and specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals in relation to patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care (for example advising Occupational Health colleagues on psychological principles and research, or acting as consultant to AHP colleagues in understanding and managing challenging behaviour).
* Take responsibility for keeping up to date with relevant clinical research.
* Identify, initiate and complete clinical research as a routine activity (including psychological aspects of amputation or collaborating actively with MDT colleagues on research projects).
* Carry out and cooperate in audit/service-related projects (e.g., evaluating the effectiveness of the staff support service).
* Use computer software to develop and operate systems for storage and analysis of data and creation of reports for audit and research activities.
* Supervise research and development activities of doctoral trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists where appropriate.
* Supervise doctoral trainee Clinical Psychologists and be responsible for their training in all aspects of Clinical Psychology.
* Supervise Assistant Psychologists and any other psychologists or professional colleagues associated with the post.
* Provide teaching on Clinical Psychology in the Oxford Training Course in Clinical Psychology as appropriate.
* Provide teaching and training to other professional colleagues/staff groups on psychological matters as appropriate.
* Attend Occupational Health team meetings.
* Organise efficient day-to-day running and development of the Staff Support Service in liaison with the Occupational Health team and Strategic Lead.
* Maintain accurate clinical notes and documentation for professional and legal requirements in line with Occupational Health procedures.
* Take part in service/departmental policy implementation and development (e.g., by actively working on policy implementation, raising issues, proposing and discussing changes).
* Plan and organise the work and of trainees, and assistants as appropriate, in addition to own caseload, research and other responsibilities and liaise as necessary with other colleagues.
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
* At least 4 years post‑qualification experience.
* Appropriate UK professional registration.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in staff support.
* Working knowledge of at least two therapeutic modalities (e.g., CBT, ACT, EMDR).
* Experience of working therapeutically with groups.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
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