Band 8a Clinical Psychologist

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Bristol is seeking a Clinical Psychologist dedicated to delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with autism diagnoses. The role involves conducting specialist assessments and offering psychological support, along with training staff and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. A focus on diversity and inclusion is essential. Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and expertise in recognized psychological frameworks. This role contributes to improving mental health outcomes within the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering psychological interventions in multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to conduct specialist assessments and psychological management.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and intervention for children and young people.
• Deliver training and support to staff and various teams.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and data entry.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Experience in supervision and training

Data analysis skills

Knowledge of PBT, PBS, EEMM

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about providing values led, person centred evidence-based processes of change/intervention programmes for children and young people with autism diagnoses, and their families, who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and residential admission.

Autism Intensive Service works utilises the Process Based Therapy (PBT), Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) and Extended Evolutionary Meta Model (EEMM) frameworks to inform and support genuinely person-centred programmes for CYP and their families.

Responsibilities

• The post covers BNSSG area. The post holder will provide specialist assessment, formulation, intervention programmes for CYP and their families/carers.
• To undertake highly specialist assessments, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with Children and Young People and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of clients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, 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.
• To provide specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.
• To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.
• To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of Children and Young People by teams.
• To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust.
• To provide staff training, supervision, consultation and advice to colleagues in AWP teams and other agencies (e.g., social care, education etc).
• To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
• To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
• To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills to support the development of psychological thinking and intervention within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of delivering supervision and training would be essential.
• Data analysis and research skills are highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Process Based Therapy (PBT), Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) and Extended Evolutionary Meta Model (EEMM) or related evidence‑based frameworks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities. We are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours. We do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, a diverse organisation with over 4500 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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.