Job summary
Are you someone with a proven track record of service development and a passion for multidisciplinary working? Are you looking for a new challenge? If so, then this role may be for you.
The Family Safeguarding Team is an innovative partnership model between Swindon Borough Council and a network of other statutory and voluntary sector organisations. The wider Family Safeguarding Team is comprised of substance misuse, domestic abuse, adult mental health workers and children's social workers. Workers from specialist organisations join together to form one team working with families. The Family Safeguarding Team focuses on working to develop parents' strengths to positively change their behaviour and relationships in order to improve their children's lives. By assisting parents to make positive changes more children can stay at home with their birth family and thrive, not just survive.
This 8B Psychologist role is positioned within the aspect of the service that focuses on the mental health of parents, working alongside three skilled and committed Assistant Psychologists. This is a fixed term role, providing cover whilst the substantive postholder is on maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
You should have significant post-qualification experience of working in a mental health setting, providing time limited, evidence based psychological interventions (mainly CBT and DBT informed work). The postholder will carry a small caseload, providing psychological interventions to parents with identified mental health needs who are open to the Family Safeguarding Team. You will also provide clinical supervision, consultation and training to the Mental Health Practitioners within the team (three Assistant Psychologists), and to the wider team, as required, advising on how the mental health needs of parents might best be met.
This role would be ideally suited to someone who is looking for a new challenge, who enjoys working with colleagues from a range of different backgrounds and who is committed to working in an innovative way to improve the lives of children and their families. The role will provide ample opportunities to utilise and develop skills in leadership and service development.
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
You will be employed by Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust but will be seconded to work as part of the Family Safeguarding team, in partnership with Swindon Borough Council and other third sector and statutory agencies.
The postholder will receive line management, caseload management and clinical supervision within the Swindon Psychological Therapies Service. There will also be opportunities to connect with other psychological practitioners working with Family Safeguarding teams locally and nationally.
See Job Description and Person Specification for full details of role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be employed by Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust but will be seconded to work as part of the Family Safeguarding team, in partnership with Swindon Borough Council and other third sector and statutory agencies.
The postholder will receive line management, caseload management and clinical supervision within the Swindon Psychological Therapies Service. There will also be opportunities to connect with other psychological practitioners working with Family Safeguarding teams locally and nationally.
See Job Description and Person Specification for full details of role.
Person Specification
Qualifications:
Essential
- Doctoral qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent
- Registered with the HCPC
- Relevant Specialist CPD qualification (diploma, advanced therapy training etc)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience in adult mental health
- Supervision experience with junior psychologists
- Supervision experience with other professions.
- Clinical audit work relevant to role
Desirable
- Service development/project work.
Specialist knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions with client group.
- Specialist assessment and formulation skills.
- Expertise in analysis and differential formulation of highly complex case information
- Specialist training in clinical supervision
- Expert knowledge of one NICE recommended intervention
Skills and personal attributes
Essential
- Effective team player with good communication and liaison skills
- Well organised with good administration skills.
- Empathy/engagement skills with the client group.
- Ability to cope with workload pressure/prioritise workload.
- Ability to cope with the stress of working with a difficult, potentially hostile, emotionally and behaviourally disturbed client group.
- Ability to work independently
- Self awareness and emotional resilience
- Advanced skills at engaging with/communicating sensitively to clients who exhibit severe problems of interpersonal relating.
- Able to communicate effectively across different levels of the organisation
Person Specification
Qualifications:
Essential
- Doctoral qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent
- Registered with the HCPC
- Relevant Specialist CPD qualification (diploma, advanced therapy training etc)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience in adult mental health
- Supervision experience with junior psychologists
- Supervision experience with other professions.
- Clinical audit work relevant to role
Desirable
- Service development/project work.
Specialist knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions with client group.
- Specialist assessment and formulation skills.
- Expertise in analysis and differential formulation of highly complex case information
- Specialist training in clinical supervision
- Expert knowledge of one NICE recommended intervention
Skills and personal attributes
Essential
- Effective team player with good communication and liaison skills
- Well organised with good administration skills.
- Empathy/engagement skills with the client group.
- Ability to cope with workload pressure/prioritise workload.
- Ability to cope with the stress of working with a difficult, potentially hostile, emotionally and behaviourally disturbed client group.
- Ability to work independently
- Self awareness and emotional resilience
- Advanced skills at engaging with/communicating sensitively to clients who exhibit severe problems of interpersonal relating.
- Able to communicate effectively across different levels of the organisation
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
.png){kind=logo}
