Band 8a Clinical Psychologist - Kingfisher Inpatient Service, Bristol

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

Job summary

A leading mental health organization is seeking a dedicated Psychologist to join their new specialist acute inpatient service. This role involves delivering evidence-based psychological assessments and interventions while supporting staff wellbeing and contributing to service development. The ideal candidate will have a Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification and HCPC registration, with experience in clinical supervision and training delivery.

Qualifications

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent is essential.
• HCPC Registered.
• Experience in delivering training and clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality psychological assessment and intervention.
• Provide supervision to trainee and pre-qualified psychologists.
• Contribute to service design, audit, and research.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Intervention skills

Clinical supervision

Training delivery

Education

Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent

HCPC Registration

Job description

Job overview

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you understand the clinical needs of people with a Learning Disability and Autistic People? If you are prepared to deliver evidence based change to implement clinical service delivery, this role will provide you with a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation.

We are looking for an exceptional Psychologist to join our new specialist acute inpatient service for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Working alongside the Consultant and Lead Psychologist you will be instrumental in contributing to the design, implementation and ongoing evaluation of the new service.

In addition to shaping and delivering direct psychological assessment, formulation and intervention, you will take a lead role in supporting staff wellbeing and ensuring co-production is at the core of our service delivery.

You will provide supervision to other members of the Psychology team, and support the wider staff team in the delivery of appropriate psychologically and trauma-informed care planning and treatment models.

In addition you will be expected to contribute to and lead on service development, audit and research, working with relevant partner organisations such as academic institutions, to help us realise our vision of being a centre of excellence.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver high-quality, evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention within the inpatient service. This will include the delivery of specialist individual, group and systemic intervention, as well as providing consultation, interventions and training for carers and staff.

They will be expected to provide supervision to trainee and pre-qualified psychologists.

They will also contribute to service design, audit and research. The service has close working relationships with local Universities, including direct links with the local Doctoral Programme for Clinical Psychology.

Individualised support will be provided to develop your knowledge and skills, as part of the expanding expertise in learning disabilities and neurodiversity within AWP.

If you would like further information we would be very pleased to have a conversation with you in person or virtually, prior to you submitting your application. Please contact: Dr Cathy Randle-Phillips, Consultant Clinical Psychologist: [e-mail]

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Person specification

Shortlisting

Essential criteria

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent.
• HCPC Registered
• Post qualification and further specialist training in specified specialist intervention.
• Clinical supervision/ consultation with other professionals.
• Knowledge of relevant Legislation e.g. MH Act, Capacity Assessment, NHS Long term plan
• Psychological assessment and intervention skills and knowledge.
• Experience of delivering training

Desirable criteria

• Relevant R&D or clinical audit work post qualification
• Clinical supervision of clinical psychology trainees.
• Supervision training

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.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

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