Band 8a CEN & PCLS Psychologist - Swindon

Integrated Care System; Swindon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative mental health organization in Swindon is seeking an experienced Band 8a Psychologist for their Primary Care Complex Emotional Needs Service. The role involves leadership in delivery of evidence-based interventions and managing a team to support clients with complex emotional needs and cPTSD. Candidates should be HPCP accredited, ideally with experience in trauma-focused therapy and clinical supervision. This position offers professional development opportunities in a collaborative MDT environment.

Qualifications

• HPCP accredited clinical or counselling psychologist.
• Relevant training in trauma-focused therapies required.
• Experience in primary care mental health services is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist assessment and therapy to patients.
• Clinically supervise other therapists and manage their performance.
• Contribute to training and development of multidisciplinary staff.

Skills

Trauma-focused interventions

Clinical supervision

Leadership experience

Education

HPCP accredited clinical/counselling psychologist

BABCP Accredited Therapist

Tools

EMDR Training

MBT/DBT Training

Job description

Band 8a CEN & PCLS Psychologist - Swindon

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.

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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 responsibilities

To provide highly specialist assessment and therapy (CBT / DBT informed) to patients and carers as appropriate to the service.

To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients care and management in relation to the service.

To clinically supervise other therapists and other professionals in the team in addition to taking on line management responsibilities for some.

To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the complex emotional needs pathway.

To develop and deliver training in complex emotional needs and trauma informed care for multidisciplinary staff.

Contribute to continued service development and audit

Participate in CPD and other developmental activities

As the PCLS psychologist, you will work closely with the other members of the MDT to ensure that service users receive a high quality assessment and intervention/ onward signposting. Swindon PCLS already includes a trainee Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP) and have had a long term aspiration to widen and develop their psychological offer.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HPCP accredited clinical/counselling psychologist
• BABCP Accredited Therapist
• Leadership experience / training

Experience

• Experience of delivering trauma focused interventions i.e. TF-CBT
• Experience of working within Access / Primary Care Mental Health Services
• Experience of working in to an MDT
• EMDR Trained
• MBT/DBT Trained
• Experience of providing brief interventions

Experience

• Experience of delivering clinical supervision
• Experience of delivering line management supervision

Experience

• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of designing training
• Relevant R&D or clinical audit work post qualification

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.