Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Weston-Super-Mare

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Psychologist committed to providing evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals with complex mental health challenges. This role is ideal for both newly qualified and experienced psychologists. Successful candidates will work within a diverse team, supporting service users on the North Somerset Psychological Therapies Service caseload, facilitating both assessments and therapeutic interventions while contributing to ongoing professional development. Applicants are encouraged from various backgrounds to foster diversity within the organization.

Benefits

Access to regular professional development activities

Support for additional training

Qualifications

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent.
• HCPC Registration.
• Evidence of interest in working with specified client group.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment, formulation and evidence based psychological interventions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams.
• Participate in the transformation of community mental health services.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Self-awareness

Emotional resilience

Education

Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent

Job description

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a Clinical Psychologist, who is passionate about providing evidence based psychological interventions to those with complex mental health problems. This post would be suitable for newly qualified psychologists, or those with some experience. Many of the people referred to our service present with histories of complex trauma, so experience of working with these presentations would be invaluable. We would actively support the post holder to undertake further specialist training, for example in EMDR.

North Somerset PTS comprises a supportive team of Clinical Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, CBT Therapists, Family Therapists and Psychotherapists. We have established links with local training courses. All PTS staff have access to regular activities to support their ongoing professional development. A number of our staff are accredited by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) and we are able to provide specialist supervision to staff in applying for/ maintaining BABCP accreditation.

Main duties of the job

You will provide specialist assessment, formulation and evidence based psychological intervention to a caseload of service users on the North Somerset Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) caseload. The team is co-located with the Recovery Team, so the role will involve close liaison with MDT colleagues to consider suitable referrals and provide support to colleagues working in a psychologically informed way. You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as we implement the Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan approach, and participate in the transformation of community services as part of the Community Mental Health Framework (CMHF).

We work closely with the Recovery Team, offering consultancy and supervision in the delivery of psychological interventions. We offer a range of therapeutic approaches, including CBT, DBT, CAT EMDR Psychotherapy and Family Therapy.

Working for our organisation

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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See job description and person specification for full details of job description and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent
• HCPC Registration

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of interest in working with specified client group
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Assessment and therapeutic interventions with client group

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching/training

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Effective team player with good communication with liaison skills
• Empathy/engagement skills with the client group
• Self-awareness and emotional resilience

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

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