Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to enhancing mental health services in a picturesque rural setting. This role offers a supportive environment where you can thrive as a practitioner psychologist, contributing to innovative therapeutic initiatives and evidence-based practices. Collaborate with a passionate team to deliver a wide range of psychological therapies, ensuring the best outcomes for service users facing severe mental health challenges. If you're eager to make a meaningful impact in a close-knit community, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
• Interest in developing evidence-based practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical interventions to improve service user wellbeing.
• Contribute to psychologically-informed care plans.

Skills

Compassion-focused therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Mindfulness

Schema-focused therapy

Solution-focused approaches

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Job overview

Would you like to be a part of a growing and successful psychology service and also feel included and embedded within a MDT community mental health team? In north and east Wiltshire, you have the opportunity for both whilst living and working in a beautiful rural setting with accessible links to Bath, Bristol, Trowbridge, and Salisbury.

This role is highly supported to form a secure platform for your future career. Previous post-holders have always moved on to higher banded posts within our own service.

We support people to follow their clinical interests or remain broad depending on their preference.

Main duties of the job

We are an enthusiastic and innovative team who value the input and contribution of all our team members and strive to offer the best service possible to our service users. The team has been active in launching new therapeutic initiatives such as compassion-focused therapy groups and acceptance and commitment therapy programmes. We aim to offer a wide range of psychological therapies including CBT, EMDR, ACT, DBT, CAT, Integrative, Schema-focused, Mindfulness, and Solution-focused approaches, in both group and individual settings.

We are looking for a compassionate, thoughtful, and enthusiastic practitioner psychologist to join our friendly, close-knit team. We would welcome a psychologist interested in working with service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and committed to improving their wellbeing through direct clinical interventions and contributions to psychologically-informed care plans. We particularly welcome candidates with an interest in developing evidence-based practice in areas such as psychosis, trauma, mood disorders, or personality disorders.