Band 8a CEN & PCLS Psychologist - Swindon

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an experienced and dynamic Band 8a Psychologist in Swindon. This role offers the chance to develop leadership skills by supporting complex mental health needs, providing assessments, and delivering interventions in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will work with both the Primary Care Complex Emotional Needs Service and the Primary Care Liaison Service, aiming to promote well-being in a diverse community.

Qualifications

• Experience working in mental health settings.
• Ability to manage and lead teams effectively.
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver leadership within the PC CEN and PCLS teams.
• Provide assessments and brief interventions.
• Manage and supervise other therapists.

Skills

Leadership

Assessment

Psychological Intervention

Team Collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Band 8a CEN & PCLS Psychologist - Swindon

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We are seeking an experienced and dynamic psychologist to work across two innovative services in Swindon. This role offers the chance to develop your leadership skills by supporting a growing brief psychological intervention service as well as working within a busy MDT providing assessment, formulation, and brief interventions for a wide range of mental health needs.

The Primary Care Complex Emotional Needs Service (PC CEN) delivers brief psychological support for individuals with emotional and relational difficulties, associated with personality disorder. With additional investment the service will expand to also offer intervention to people with complex PTSD who may fall between the gap between primary and secondary MH services.

The Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) provides mental health triage, assessment, brief interventions, advice, and signposting for diverse mental health issues. You will work closely with the Swindon Psychological Therapies Service to deliver high-quality psychological 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.

This role involves three days per week in the PC CEN Service and two days per week with the PCLS, linked to the local Psychological Therapies Service (PTS).

As PC CEN Psychologist, you will lead the locality team as the service expands, managing therapists and MHWP’s to deliver safe, evidence-based interventions for clients with complex emotional needs and cPTSD.

As PCLS Psychologist, you will collaborate within the MDT to provide assessment, formulation, brief interventions, and signposting for a wide range of mental health presentations. The service includes a trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP) and aims to expand its psychological offerings.

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.

Swindon PTS comprises a supportive team of Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists, a Family Therapist and Arts Psychotherapists. We have strong links with local training providers in Clinical & Counselling Psychology. All PTS staff have access to regular activities to support their ongoing professional development, including a bi-monthly CPD club and support to access other specialist training. We offer a range of therapeutic approaches, including CBT, DBT, CFT, EMDR and Family Therapy. We have a well established mechanisms for supporting staff who wish to maintain their BABCP accreditation. The team has a strong emphasis on promoting staff wellbeing, including a bi-monthly reflective practice group and regular wellbeing activities

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Luke McNeill Job title: BSW Primary Care CEN Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01793 327900

Imogen Reid - Swindon PTS Lead - [e-mail]

Sarah Hunt - BSW CEN Lead - [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

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• Employment type

  Full-time

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  Management and Manufacturing

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  Hospitals and Health Care

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