Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - Bristol

Integrated Care System; Bristol; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization is seeking a Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to join their integrated team in Bristol. The role involves delivering high-quality psychological assessments and interventions, providing clinical leadership, and contributing to the ongoing professional development of staff. Candidates should hold a doctorate in psychology and have relevant experience in multidisciplinary settings. The position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for further training and professional growth.

Benefits

Opportunities for continued professional development

Accreditation in CBT, DBT, EMDR

Supportive environment for community engagement

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years post qualification experience of working within multidisciplinary settings.
• Experience in the provision of supervision, consultation and training of other professionals.
• Demonstrates advanced theoretical knowledge in the specialism.

Responsibilities

• To lead and deliver a high quality clinical psychology service.
• To undertake highly specialist assessments and formulate treatment plans.
• To provide clinical leadership alongside the MINT team manager.

Skills

Empathy

Clinical supervision

Psychological assessment skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic psychology or equivalent

HPCP Registered

Post qualification and further specialist training

Job description

Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - Bristol

We are looking to recruit a Practitioner Psychologist 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 consultation, supervision, collaborative psychological formulations 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. Experience and or interest in the application of Critical Community Psychology principles into this post will be advantageous. As a service, we are commitment to address 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 continue professional development, accreditation in CBT, DBT, EMDR, Systemic Family Therapy or etc. We will consider 7 to 8a preceptorship to the candidates with previous experience of the client group, including community outreach and engagement work with marginalised populations.

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 (but not limited to) 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 into the local MINT and in the area.

To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs) and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals where indicated.

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 lead and deliver a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service to the MINT in line with best practice and National guidelines.

To hold clinical responsibility for the MINT service alongside the MINT Team Manager.

To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers (as appropriate to the role).

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients mental health issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients experiences, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

See JD and person specification for further information.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registration

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic psychology or equivalent
• HPCP Registered
• Post qualification and further specialist training in specified specialist intervention
• Minimum of two years post qualification experience of working within multidisciplinary settings
• Experience in provision of supervision, consultation and training of other professionals
• Demonstrates co-production skills and assertive application of community psychology principles
• Interest in working with complex system across primary/secondary and VCSE communities of care
• Experience of delivering individual/groups and family psychological interventions
• Interest in and or experience of using community psychology principles to work sensitively with the communities we serve
• Enthusiasm in supporting service innovation and development
• Networking and group work skills that enable genuine participation and influence of all stakeholders
• Demonstrates proactive inclusion of groups and communities exposed to greater pressures

Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the specialism. Ability to use this knowledge to think systemically/organisationally.
• Psychological assessment skills and knowledge
• Evidence based therapeutic interventions with client group.
• Empathy/engagement skills with the client group.
• Experience of risk assessment and management.
• Clinical supervision/consultation with other professionals.
• Ability to work effectively and flexibly as an integral member of a team.
• Ability to work independently.
• Self-awareness and emotional resilience.

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.

£53,755 to £60,504 a year(pay award pending)