Clinical or Counselling Psychologist​/CBT Therapist

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
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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

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.

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.

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…