Are you looking to gain more clinical experience in mental health?
We are looking for a full time Assistant Psychologist to join our Youth Liaison and Diversion team.
We, in Youth Justice Liaison and Diversion, are a team based within the Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) who work with children and young people that are involved in offending behaviour or suspected of a criminal offence. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Assistant Psychologist to help our service delivery and support our ongoing development and the vital work our team do across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
No day is the same in the Youth Liaison & Diversion Team, however a general overview of an Assistant Psychologist’s week would include the following:
Triaging new referrals with the clinicians, liaising, and supporting assessments with a clinician. An assessment in the community is most frequently completed at the young person's home, school or the team’s office. Following this, the Assistant Psychologist may complete risk assessments and a report of the assessment, as well as onward signposting, including internal referrals within CAMHS, to charities, and attending multi-agency meetings and liaising with professionals involved with the young person’s care.
For young people where potential neurodiversity is queried, this includes requesting, marking and presenting neurodiversity questionnaires. During the week the Assistant Psychologist would support young people currently in police custody, either through in-person or remote screenings, or through collaborative working with the team’s adult Liaison & Diversion colleagues based in custody.
On a case-by-case basis, the Assistant Psychologist may complete 1:1 CBT-informed sessions with young people under supervision of a consultant clinical psychologist. During the week, team office days allows for all members of the team to meet in person and discuss referrals.
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 to deliver Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team," no matter who you are or where you are.
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. We work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve. We are an Equal Opportunities employer. 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. 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
- Staff networking and support groups
We work in a variety of ways including consultation, assessment and intervention. The role supports the team whilst also being under the supervision of a consultant clinical psychologist, and contributes to the treatment of individuals as well as the service response more generally.
We'll need you to be able to travel across the counties to visit custody suites and come into our office base in Maple House, but we also offer hybrid working (working from office base for minimum 2 days a week) and also some flexibility with working hours in alignment with service need - we know how important a good work/life balance is.
