Band 8a Primary Care CEN & PCLS Psychologist - Wiltshire

NHS; Devizes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to join the NHS in Wiltshire, focusing on mental health assessments and interventions. This role combines leadership responsibilities with direct patient care within innovative psychological services, addressing complex emotional needs and trauma. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and play a vital role in developing evidence-based services.

Qualifications

• Must be HPCP accredited.
• Experience with trauma-focused interventions like TF-CBT.
• Leadership training or experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist assessment and therapy.
• Clinically supervise other therapists and manage line responsibilities.
• Contribute to service development and deliver training.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Brief interventions

Leadership

Education

HPCP accredited clinical/counseling psychologist

BABCP Accredited Therapist

Job description

Band 8a Primary Care CEN & PCLS Psychologist - Wiltshire

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.

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 highly specialist assessment and therapy (CBT / DBT informed) to patients and carers as appropriate to the service.

To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients care and management in relation to the service.

To clinically supervise other therapists and other professionals in the team in addition to taking on line management responsibilities for some.

To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the complex emotional needs pathway.

To develop and deliver training in complex emotional needs and trauma informed care for multidisciplinary staff.

Contribute to continued service development and audit

Participate in CPD and other developmental activities

As the PCLS psychologist, you will work closely with the other members of the MDT to ensure that service users receive a high quality assessment and intervention/ onward signposting.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HPCP accredited clinical/counselling psychologist
• BABCP Accredited Therapist
• Leadership experience / training

Experience

• Experience of delivering trauma focused interventions i.e. TF-CBT
• Experience of working in Access / Primary Care mental health services
• Experience of working in to an MDT
• EMDR Trained
• MBT/DBT Trained
• Experience of providing brief interventions

Experience

• Experience of delivering clinical supervision
• Experience of delivering line management supervision

Experience

• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of designing training
• Relevant R&D clinical audit work post qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.