Band 8a Later Life Clinical Counselling Psychologist - Chippenham

NHS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Band 8a Later Life Clinical Counselling Psychologist to join their Community Mental Health Team in Chippenham. This role focuses on providing psychological services to the older adult population, requiring expertise in various psychological interventions and clinical leadership. Candidates must have a doctoral-level qualification and HCPC registration. This is a unique opportunity to work with a diverse client group and contribute to enhancing mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience working with older adults in mental health settings.
• Ability to provide psychological interventions.
• Skills in supervision and training of staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide a systematic clinical psychology service.
• Conduct specialist assessments and implement treatment plans.
• Deliver psychological interventions for individuals and groups.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Assessment skills

Neuropsychology

Communication

Education

Doctoral-level qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology

HCPC Registration

Training in clinical supervision

Job description

Band 8a Later Life Clinical Counselling Psychologist - Chippenham

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.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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.

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.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high-quality, largely autonomous, and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service.
• To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessments, risk assessments, and assessments 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 problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients difficulties and employing evidence-based methods 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, delivered individually or in combination. This includes adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
• To provide at least one specialist, evidence-based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.
• To provide highly specialist consultation to members of various teams within the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients.
• To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by teams.
• To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust.
• To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
• To maintain accurate records and monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
• To support the full implementation of YTCP (Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan) or equivalent, including acting as key worker as appropriate to the needs of the service.
• To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.

For further information or to discuss this vacancy, we encourage you to contact:

Dr Andy Bendell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Tel: [phone]

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral-level qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent). Eligibility for Chartered Psychologist status
• HCPC Registered (Health and Care Professions Council)
• Post-qualification and further specialist training in specified psychological interventions
• Training in clinical supervision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 197 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.