Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Band 8b Clinical Psychologist - Kingswood Civic Centre

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) in South Glos. The experienced candidate will support the overall leadership of the service and provide specialist expertise in psychosis and bipolar difficulties. The post holder will support the development of practitioners offering psychological interventions for psychosis and bipolar difficulties by providing clinical supervision, training, and service development oversight within the South Glos Locality. The role requires that the post holder works on Tuesdays, and Fridays to meet the multifaceted needs of the service.

South Glos Psychological Therapies Service is a well-respected team within the locality and the wider trust. The service comprises multidisciplinary staff members, including Psychologists, Art Therapists, OTs, Social Workers, Nurses and Psychiatrists. The service places emphasis on the provision of evidence-based therapies (CBT, DBT, MBT, psychodynamic therapies, family therapy, EMDR, music and art therapy) aimed at meeting the diverse needs of our service users, families, and communities. As a service, the we committed to addressing issues of structural inequalities that often create barriers to the provision of equitable care for the service user groups in the locality.

Main duties of the job

The role includes carrying out supervision, teaching, training, and consultation to professionals within the service as well as to other community teams interfacing with PTS.

In conjunction with senior service staff, maintain the highest standards of care delivery to service users, carers, and communities, as well as ensuring the achievement of service function and metrics.

Carry out managerial tasks, including management supervision and attending strategic meetings to represent the service.

You will provide highly specialist psychological supervision to experienced staff working in teams providing psychosis and bipolar specialist services within the locality and the PTS.

As an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, you will be involved in team formulation, team case discussions, and consultation to other team members around the delivery of psychological interventions.

See Detailed Job description for more information.

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.

Date posted

15 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

342-SGLOS068-1024

Job locations

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Street

Bristol

BS15 9TR

Job description

Job responsibilities

To offer an entirely autonomous highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and treatment service through the psychology service.

To support the full implementation of the care programme approach in the multidisciplinary team or equivalent where appropriate.

To provide supervision and consultancy to service/LDU staff with regard to problem assessment and formulation, and therapy interventions.

To participate in clinical supervision and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the psychology service.

MANAGEMENT

To offer caseload supervision to staff from psychology/psychological therapies as delegated by manager.

To carry out appraisals with staff from psychology/psychological therapies as delegated by the manager.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To offer an entirely autonomous highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and treatment service through the psychology service.

To support the full implementation of the care programme approach in the multidisciplinary team or equivalent where appropriate.

To provide supervision and consultancy to service/LDU staff with regard to problem assessment and formulation, and therapy interventions.

To participate in clinical supervision and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the psychology service.

MANAGEMENT

To offer caseload supervision to staff from psychology/psychological therapies as delegated by manager.

To carry out appraisals with staff from psychology/psychological therapies as delegated by the manager.

Person Specification

Essential criteria

Essential

Doctorate of Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology or equivalent
BABCP Accreditation on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Extensive experience of providing psychological interventions to service users, teams and communities (3 years and above)
Ability to provide psychological specialist CBTp supervision for MDT professionals, and trainee psychologists
Ability to provide highly specialist assessments, complex formulations and interventions to guide clinical care.

Desirable

demonstrate ability to engage in service development audit and service evaluation.
Ability to teach train staff on specialist CBTp and Bipolar presentations
specialist skills in provision of supervision of other professionals at individual team and group levels
Interest in participating in research to enhance our understanding of the bipolar and psychosis specialist and contribute to practice based evidence.
ability to provide line management supervision and tasks to other professionals within the PTS

Person Specification

Essential criteria

Essential

Doctorate of Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology or equivalent
BABCP Accreditation on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Extensive experience of providing psychological interventions to service users, teams and communities (3 years and above)
Ability to provide psychological specialist CBTp supervision for MDT professionals, and trainee psychologists
Ability to provide highly specialist assessments, complex formulations and interventions to guide clinical care.

Desirable

demonstrate ability to engage in service development audit and service evaluation.
Ability to teach train staff on specialist CBTp and Bipolar presentations
specialist skills in provision of supervision of other professionals at individual team and group levels
Interest in participating in research to enhance our understanding of the bipolar and psychosis specialist and contribute to practice based evidence.
ability to provide line management supervision and tasks to other professionals within the PTS

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Street

Bristol

BS15 9TR

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Street

Bristol

BS15 9TR

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)