Band 8a Primary Care CEN & PCLS Psychologist

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking an experienced psychologist in Salisbury to lead psychological interventions and manage a team in a growing mental health service. This role involves providing assessments and interventions for complex emotional needs. The ideal candidate has leadership experience and a solid understanding of diverse mental health presentations.

Qualifications

• Experienced psychologist with leadership skills.
• Ability to conduct psychological assessments.
• Knowledge of emotional and relational difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Lead a locality team through service expansion.
• Supervise therapists and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners.
• Provide psychological assessments and brief interventions.

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.

Main duties of the job

This role operates across both the PC CEN Service and the Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS), covering South Wiltshire. While your formal line management will sit within the PC CEN Service, you will also maintain close links with the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service (PTS).

As the PC CEN Psychologist, you will lead the locality team through a period of service expansion. You will be responsible for supervising therapists and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs), ensuring the delivery of safe, evidence-based interventions for individuals with complex emotional needs and complex PTSD.

In your role within PCLS, you will work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide psychological assessments, formulations, brief interventions, and appropriate signposting for a broad spectrum of mental health presentations.

Both teams are co-located on the same site,