Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking two Practitioner Psychologists to lead and enhance psychological services within the Mental Health Integrated Network Team. This role focuses on delivering high-quality psychological assessments and interventions, guiding a multidisciplinary team, and ensuring effective management of mental health service users. The successful candidates will play a key role in transforming mental health care delivery, ensuring individuals receive personalized support. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to improving mental health outcomes in the community, where your expertise will make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological assessments and therapies.
• Ability to lead and supervise a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and oversight in psychological practice.
• Deliver specialist psychological assessment and therapy to service users.

Skills

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Leadership

Therapeutic Interventions

Formulation-based Care

Supervision Skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Job overview

We are looking to recruit two Practitioner Psychologists to clinically lead and oversee psychological practice in the Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) in North West Bristol and Inner City and East Bristol. 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. We have been developing a new model, bringing together Primary and Secondary care, Local Authority and Voluntary sector services, into new Mental Health and Wellbeing Integrated Network Teams. We aim to support individuals who can fall through the ‘gaps’ of current pathways, making sure that they have the personalised support they need with services around them.

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 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 clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs), and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals where indicated.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy, and service development within the areas served by the MINT and the Psychological Therapies Service/CPI.
• To develop and deliver training to multidisciplinary staff.