Band 8a Psychological Therapies Trainer - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in the UK is seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist for a part-time role focusing on developing and delivering training programs for Psychosis interventions. The successful candidate will collaborate with the BNSSG Therapies Training lead and engage with various teams across the BNSSG area. Applicants should have advanced CBT training and experience in training delivery, along with a commitment to improving psychological interventions within mental health services. Opportunities for professional development are available.

Benefits

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Innovative research projects

Qualifications

• Significant experience of delivering training.
• Ability to work across various locations within BNSSG.
• Commitment to diversity, accessibility, and equality.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver evidence-based psychosocial intervention training.
• Monitor and report on training activity and delivery.
• Contribute to service development and related research.

Skills

Advanced specialist training in CBT for psychosis

Experience in delivering training

Job description

Job overview

We are excited to be recruiting to our Psychological Interventions Training Team.

We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is interested in a 2 day a week post to work with the BNSSG Therapies Training lead to develop and deliver training across BNSSG. The aim of the role, initially, will be to prioritise the delivery of a training programme to support the provision of NICE recommended interventions for people with Psychosis, in particular CBT and Family Interventions. The transformation of services in line with the Community Mental Health Framework offers the opportunity to improve the interventions on offer across BNSSG Mental Health services including Recovery Teams, Early interventions teams and crisis/ Intensive Support Teams. The successful applicant will play a key role in delivering the training on offer to increase and improve the interventions that will be delivered by these teams in line with national best practice.

We invite applications from people with advanced specialist training in CBT for psychosis and significant experience of delivering training. You will work closely with and be managed by the BNSSG Psychological Training lead to develop the training and work across BNSSG. You will also work alongside associate trainers with lived experience to ensure training is co-developed and co-delivered.

This role covers the BNSSG area so you will need to have flexibility in terms of the locations you work in.

Main duties of the job

• To support workforce elements of trust clinical transformation project plans through the development and delivery of high quality, evidence based psychosocial intervention training.
• To focus capacity on the delivery of training in effective, evidence-based interventions (e.g. as recommended by NICE).
• To report on activity and delivery of training at regular intervals as required and as directed by the BNSSG Training Lead.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development across BNSSG and related to the delivered training.

You will be working closely with Psychological therapy Services across BNSSG. The Psychological Therapies Services (PTS) teams in North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and the Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) Team in Bristol offer a range of activities to support psychologically informed care within the secondary mental health service. The teams are well established and highly regarded in local services.

There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We also have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.

Issues of diversity, accessibility and equality of access are priorities for any successful applicant.