Band 8a Primary Care CEN & PCLS Psychologist

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health provider is seeking an experienced psychologist to enhance both individual and team services across Wiltshire. This role blends leadership with direct psychological interventions, seeking to support individuals dealing with emotional and relational challenges. Candidates will benefit from a collaborative MDT environment and play a crucial role in expanding services to meet diverse mental health needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering psychological interventions and assessments.
• Ability to manage teams and lead service development.
• Understanding of complex emotional needs and mental health disorders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the locality team managing therapists and interventions.
• Provide MDT collaboration for assessment and brief interventions.
• Support service expansion targeting complex PTSD and emotional difficulties.

Skills

Leadership

Assessment

Formulation

Brief intervention

Mental health support

Education

Doctorate in Psychology

Job description

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic psychologist to work across two innovative services in Wiltshire. This role offers the chance to develop your leadership skills by supporting a growing brief psychological intervention service as well as working within a busy MDT providing assessment, formulation, and brief interventions for a wide range of mental health needs. The Primary Care Complex Emotional Needs Service (PC CEN) delivers brief psychological support for individuals with emotional and relational difficulties, associated with personality disorder.

With additional investment the service will expand to also offer intervention to people with complex PTSD who may fall between the gap between primary and secondary MH services. The Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) provides mental health triage, assessment, brief interventions, advice, and signposting for diverse mental health issues.

You will link with the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) for this part of the role.

Main duties of the job

This role involves working between the PC CEN Service and PCLS covering North and South Wiltshire. Your line management will be held with the PC CEN Service, although you be linked with the Wiltshire PTS service.

As PC CEN Psychologist, you will lead the locality team as the service expands, managing therapists and MHWP’s to deliver safe, evidence-based interventions for clients with complex emotional needs and cPTSD.

As PCLS Psychologist, you will collaborate within the MDT to provide assessment, formulation, brief interventions, and signposting for a wide range of mental health presentations.