Band 8a Later Life Clinical Counselling Psychologist - Chippenham

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

Job summary

A regional mental health service in Chippenham is seeking a Locum Clinical Psychologist to join the Community Mental Health Team. This role focuses on providing psychological therapies to the older adult population. Applicants should have experience in older adult settings and demonstrate skills in leadership, assessment, and consultation. Join a supportive team committed to enhancing mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience in secondary mental health settings with older adults.
• Demonstrated experience in specialist assessments and interventions.
• Evidence of leadership and innovations in mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological therapies to older adults in both group and individual contexts.
• Demonstrate clinical leadership and improve service provisions.
• Offer supervision, consultation, and training to colleagues.

Skills

Experience in older adult settings

Specialist assessment and intervention

Clinical leadership

Supervision and consultation

Education

Senior clinical psychologist qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Locum Clinical Psychologist (Grade 8a) to join our friendly Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in North East Wiltshire, and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service (PTS), for a period of six months.

This locum role is primarily based in Chippenham and Devizes, while providing clinical services to the older adult population throughout Wiltshire.

Working as part of both the Wiltshire PTS and CMHT offers psychologists the opportunity to treat a range of disorders and presenting difficulties. This means you can maintain your skills across a diverse client group or further explore a specialist interest, such as neuropsychology.

In Wiltshire, the service is needs‑led ('ageless'), offering care for both functional and organic conditions to all adults aged 18 and over. This role will focus on clients from the older adult population.

Main Duties of the Job

• This post is within the multi‑disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service (PTS). We are an enthusiastic and innovative team that values the input and contribution of all our staff and strives to offer the best possible services to our clients.
• We provide a wide range of psychological therapies, including CBT, EMDR, ACT, DBT, CAT, Integrative approaches, Schema‑focused therapy, Mindfulness‑based interventions, and Solution‑focused methods, delivered in both group and individual contexts, primarily on an outpatient basis.
• The successful applicant will have clearly demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with people from the older adult age range.
• For this senior role, you will be able to demonstrate experience of working with different client groups in secondary mental health settings, and of having been responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions.
• You will need to show evidence of clinical leadership and innovations that have improved services in which you have worked.
• As the provision of supervision, consultation, and training to colleagues within the service is highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage.

Qualifications

• Senior clinical psychologist with experience in older adult settings.
• Demonstrable experience in specialist assessment and intervention within secondary mental health settings.
• Evidence of clinical leadership and innovations that have improved services.
• Experience of providing supervision, consultation and training to colleagues.

About the Service

AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) is 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.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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.