Job summary
Are you interested in an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of people with long-term mental health needs?

We are looking for a part time Senior Psychotherapist/Group Analyst to join our newly formed integrated Northeast Adult Mental Health Team, part of the North and West Oxfordshire Adult Mental Health Locality.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a new team and help shape the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care. You will work alongside experienced and supportive colleagues within the wider team of psychological professionals, including psychotherapists, psychologists, group analysts, CBT therapists, CAT therapists, and family therapists.

As part of our integrated multidisciplinary service, you will also have opportunities to work closely with psychiatrists, social workers, community psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals, supporting joined-up care for the people and communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of the locality psychological therapies team within the Adult Mental Health Team, seeing patients individually and in groups, providing formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems.
• Be responsible for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning the patients mental health difficulties.
• Help co-facilitate MBT groups within our well-established countywide Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) programme. Delivered in person from our Headington base in Oxford city.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to the wider Adult Mental Health Team to help develop their patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Receive and provide professional clinical supervision for yourself and other appropriately trained psychological therapy staff.
• Contribute to the development and evaluation of the teams operational practices to ensure high quality, responsive and accessible services are available.

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

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"

Benefits

• 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 networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 267-OA8266335-A
Closing date: 11 November 2026

Essential criteria

• Recognised qualification in a core mental health profession or extensive relevant experience and demonstrated competence to work in the NHS mental health field, plus post registration clinical training to at least Diploma level and Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy or equivalent
• Fully accredited with either UKCP (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis college CPJAC) or BPC
• Completion of appropriate CPD to maintain registration and accreditation with professional bodies
• Ability to travel between bases as required
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and inpatient settings
• Experience of supervising others
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• 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
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Qualifications / training in clinical supervision
• Experience of running / co-running groups
• Experience of the application of providing therapy in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Experience of working in the NHS
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• An awareness of own strengths and limitations
• Willingness to work flexibly

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.

For questions about the job, contact:
Rachael Lippett, Consultant Psychotherapist & City Locality Lead
Rachael.lippett@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk | 01865902005

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