Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health trust as a Practitioner Psychologist in a transformative role within the Mental Health Integrated Network Team. You'll deliver critical psychological support, lead clinical initiatives, and have opportunities for professional development in various therapeutic specialisms. Embrace a commitment to equitable care and make a significant impact on community mental health.

Benefits

Opportunities for continued professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical, counseling, or forensic psychology essential.
• Knowledge of community psychology principles highly valued.
• Commitment to addressing structural inequalities in care provision.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and psychological interventions within the MINT.
• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and formulate care services.
• Supervise trainee clinical psychologists and other professionals.

Skills

CBT

DBT

EMDR

Systemic Family Therapy

Education

Doctorate in Psychology

Job description

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an experienced Practitioner Psychologist (clinical/counselling/forensic) to the new Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) in South Glos. As part of the Community Mental Health Framework, we are delivering an exciting transformation programme to support people with mental health needs to get the help they need efficiently, and close to home. The team aims to meet the needs of service users that fall through the gap between primary and secondary care services.

You will provide psychological formulations, consultation, supervision, and training to multidisciplinary professionals both within the team and to partner agencies. There will be opportunities for the delivery of medium-term therapy within MINT, as well as possibilities to provide long-term therapy within the local South Glos PTS service.

The MINT service uses critical community psychology principles as a framework to meet service users' needs. Applicants with an interest in applying critical community/liberation psychology models are encouraged to apply. As a service, we are committed to addressing issues of structural inequalities and oppression that often create barriers in the provision of equitable care for the service user groups in the locality.

You will be well supported with a range of opportunities for continued professional development, including accreditation in CBT, DBT, EMDR, Systemic Family Therapy, or other relevant specialisms. We support flexible working.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide clinical leadership alongside the MINT team manager to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Integrated Network Team (MINT), including guiding principles of the clinical framework, the delivery of a psychologically informed service, psychological interventions, and quality assurance of those interventions.
• The post holder will use their specialist psychological knowledge and skills to provide a formulation-based care service to inform the effective management of service users, families, and carers within the local MINT.
• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to service users and carers as appropriate to the service.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients’ formulation and psychological management to other non-psychologist colleagues.
• To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of service users by the various teams working within the local MINT area.
• To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs), and less experienced psychology staff, as well as other professionals where indicated.