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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PWP/ CBT therapist / Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist who is BABCP accredited/registered and has significant experience of working within an IAPT service to join our team TalkingSpace Plus in Oxfordshire.

We are looking for a team leader who will work alongside our senior management team and clinical teams to ensure the effective running of the service, you will be supported by the Deputy Clinical Lead.

We can offer favourable relocation packages to suitable candidates wishing to relocate to Oxfordshire for this role.

We are a well-established team with a great reputation for providing a full range of high-quality evidence-based treatments and interventions for patients with anxiety/depression, with and without long-term physical health conditions. If you are an experienced therapist with a supervision qualification looking to progress to a leadership position, this could be the role for you.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and innovated team, your ideas and creativity would be welcome in contributing to the ongoing development of our service.

You will hold a clinical caseload providing individual and group treatments. You will provide clinical and case management supervision as well as supervision of supervision and line management.

You will be supported to monitor performance at both an individual clinical level and service level. You will lead on an agreed aspects of service delivery, audit, research and/or clinical governance.

In this role you will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psychological therapy service to adults and older adults with common mental health disorders and their carers for Step 2, including overseeing team performance within the Oxfordshire TalkingSpace Plus Service.

You will also:

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy for a caseload of people with common mental health disorders with or without long term physical health problems.
• Clinically supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy, including clinical skills provided by trainee, qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and as appropriate step 3 trainee and qualified clinicians
• Contribute to the delivery of duty supervision to all staff working in the service.

We are a nationally recognised and innovative IAPT service. Visit our website (Oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/talkingspaceplus) to find out more.

Staff wellbeing is a top priority - We have a very active, award winning, in- service wellbeing team and take a pride in our supportive and collaborative culture.

The Trust hosts the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research and the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. TalkingSpace Plus is actively involved in research, and the service benefits from being a member of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network - Anxiety and Depression Network led by Professor David Clark.

Other benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Staff accommodation
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

As Step 2 Team Leader, provide leadership and management supervision for clinical staff working with people with common mental health disorders across the service; contribute to the development and maintenance of systems for the clinical and professional supervision and support of both trainee and qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), including systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the service as delegated be the Clinical & Professional Lead and Head of IAPT Oxfordshire.

Please see the attached job description for further details about this role.