Senior Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist
The closing date is 17 November 2026

Job summary
Are you an experienced Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist seeking a new opportunity in a critical service?

We are looking for a senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly and supportive team at Cotswold House Oxford on a part time basis.

We are a specialist eating disorder inpatient service, providing evidence-based care to patients and their loved ones. We offer a range of programmes and treatments which are individualised to support patients' recovery, and their return to independent living, work, training or study.

We welcome applicants who are passionate about working with people with eating disorders, who are interested in service development and improvement, and who would like to be part of our well-established and experienced team.

Main duties of the job

• Contribution to care provision of patients, providing consultation to the multidisciplinary team and ongoing support to create psychologically-informed care and treatment plans
• Undertake specialist psychological assessment
• Deliver individual and group psychological interventions
• Involvement in the ward leadership team to assist with service improvement and implement service changes, and supervise doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, Band 7 therapists, and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically-based care and treatment
• To provide advice and consultation to colleagues, as well as to our community partners and stakeholders
• To propose and implement policy changes which may impact on other professionals working in the inpatient ward

About us
Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.

Give yourself the best chance of success by reviewing our Applicant Guide before applying. Your supporting statement should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Oxford Health delivers physical, mental health and social care services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our vision is "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team", and our values are Caring, Safe and Excellent.

We are proud to offer a supportive working environment with opportunities for career progression, learning and development, generous annual leave, pension benefits, wellbeing initiatives and staff networks

Details
Date posted: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum | pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 267-OA8362617
Job locations: Cotswold House Oxford, Warneford Lane, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Knowledge

• Essential: Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Desirable: Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people eating disorders.

Qualifications

• Essential: Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996, as accredited by the British Psychological Society
• Essential: HCPC registration
• Desirable: Accreditation with the BABCP, or willingness to work towards accreditation.
• Desirable: Qualifications/training in clinical supervision.

Further Training or Job-Related Aptitude and Skills

• Essential: Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Essential: 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.
• Essential: Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate

Experience

• Essential: Experience of working with people with eating disorders.
• Desirable: Experience of running/co-running groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Oxford Health NHS Trust
Employer's website: https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

For questions about the job, contact:
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Emma Clarkson, emma.clarkson@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk, 01865902534

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