Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Practitioner Psychologist to the new Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) in South Glos. As part of the Community Mental Health Framework, we are delivering an exciting transformation programme to support people with mental health needs to get the help they need efficiently, and close to home. The team aims to meet the needs of service users that fall through the gap between primary and secondary care services. You will provide psychological formulations, consultation, supervision and training to multidisciplinary professionals both within the team and to partner agencies. There will be opportunities for the delivery of medium term therapy within MINT, as well as possibilities to provide long term therapy within the local South Glos. PTS service. An interest in the application of community psychology principles into this post will be welcomed. As a service we are commitment to address issues of structural inequalities and oppression that often create barriers in the provision of equitable care for the service user groups in the Locality.
This new and exciting role will be well supported by a range of opportunities for continue professional development, accreditation in CBT, DBT, EMDR, Systemic Family Therapy or another relevant specialism. We will also consider applications from newly qualified clinical psychologists on a preceptorship from a band 7 into 8a. We support flexible working.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and carers as appropriate to the service.
The post holder will use their specialist psychological knowledge and skills to provide a formulation-based care service to inform the effective management of service users, families and carers, within the local IMHT
To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients' formulation and psychological management to other non-psychologist colleagues.
To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, CAPs and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals.
To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areas served by the Psychological Therapies Service.
To develop and deliver training in psychological therapies for multidisciplinary staff.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust)a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead and deliver a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to the IMHT in line with best practice and National guidelines.
In conjunction with the Team manager and clinical coordinator and the Head of Psychological Therapies to use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the IMHT and other teams in the area.
To undertake highly specialist assessments, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with service users and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention to a small caseload of complex service users as dictated by the needs of the service.
To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the IMHT and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of the IMHT.
To be involved in the development and delivery of training to multidisciplinary staff in the IMHT.
To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent, including acting as care coordinator as appropriate to the needs of the Service.
To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead and deliver a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to the IMHT in line with best practice and National guidelines.
In conjunction with the Team manager and clinical coordinator and the Head of Psychological Therapies to use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the IMHT and other teams in the area.
To undertake highly specialist assessments, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with service users and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention to a small caseload of complex service users as dictated by the needs of the service.
To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the IMHT and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of the IMHT.
To be involved in the development and delivery of training to multidisciplinary staff in the IMHT.
To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent, including acting as care coordinator as appropriate to the needs of the Service.
To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Experience of working in community mental health settings.
- Experience of providing assessment, intervention and evaluation of psychological interventions.
- Experience of consultation, supervision, teaching and training of mental health MDT professionals.
- Experience of formulating clients' distress with multiple systems including primary care, secondary care and voluntary sector organisations
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or final year trainee on a doctorate in clinical psychologist qualifying sept 23.
Desirable
- Desire to working in innovative ways within multiple services
- Training in Therapeutic modalities e.g. DBT, CAT EMDR, MBT, systemic family therapy etc
- Skills in research, audit and service evaluation
- Ability/desire to work with Communities and Voluntary sector organisations to address structural inequity.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Experience of working in community mental health settings.
- Experience of providing assessment, intervention and evaluation of psychological interventions.
- Experience of consultation, supervision, teaching and training of mental health MDT professionals.
- Experience of formulating clients' distress with multiple systems including primary care, secondary care and voluntary sector organisations
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or final year trainee on a doctorate in clinical psychologist qualifying sept 23.
Desirable
- Desire to working in innovative ways within multiple services
- Training in Therapeutic modalities e.g. DBT, CAT EMDR, MBT, systemic family therapy etc
- Skills in research, audit and service evaluation
- Ability/desire to work with Communities and Voluntary sector organisations to address structural inequity.
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 (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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 (opens in a new window).
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