Clinical Associate Psychology

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health organization providing critical crisis intervention support for service users in Bath. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver evaluations and therapeutic interventions while building supportive relationships. The role offers a friendly team environment, opportunities for professional development, and welcomes applications from newly qualified professionals with relevant qualifications. Enjoy flexible working arrangements to suit your lifestyle while making a difference in mental health care.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Support for professional development

Diverse and inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Newly qualified social workers are welcome to apply.
• Experience in crisis intervention is preferred.
• Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions based on assessment.
• Build supportive relationships with service users.
• Collaborate with service users to develop crisis plans.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Mental health assessment

Psychosocial interventions

Therapeutic communication

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Qualified in mental health nursing, occupational therapy, social work, or clinical associate psychology

Job description

Key Result Areas

In a wide range of situations and locations to undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis.

This will include:

• The use of standardised assessment tools.
• Recovery Star.
• History, strengths and aspirations.
• Mental state.
• Impact of culture and diversity.
• Functional needs.
• The needs of family and carer.
• Evaluation of risk.
• Physical health.
• Complicating factors.
• Identifying and ensuring specialist involvement where required.
• The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
• Social Care.
• Safeguarding and public protection.
• Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.

There will be a comprehensive induction to the role and a supported period of supernumerary to aid with transition.

BANES IS are able to provide flexible working opportunities to successful candidates, promoting a positive and enriching work/life balance.

The service runs 08:00-22:00, 7 days a week. This role includes a pattern of shift working, which does include some 9-5 shifts, evenings, weekend and bank holiday working.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities., 1. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who may be on other caseloads. This might include:

1. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who may be on other caseloads. This might include:
   • A. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.
   • B. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions
   • C. Psychosocial interventions
   • D. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies
   • E. Medication management
   • F. Interventions under the Mental Health Act
2. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carer's ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
3. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within the Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector, and with nominated carers/advocates.
4. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements, etc., involving other agencies such as primary care where appropriate.
5. To personally build-and lead others to build-hope-inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
6. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
7. To act as care coordinator for service users as appropriate, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers' caseloads.

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

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with trust policy, all newly qualified social workers will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be agreed to extend this for a further 2 years.

On successful completion of the ASYE, for which you will be given full support of an experienced Social Worker as well as Divisional Social Work Lead, and peer support from other ASYE candidates, you will then be eligible to progress to a Band 6 position.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities, - we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

No Night Shift Working Required

Are you interested in working with people in mental health crisis? We are a crisis home treatment team looking for a new Band 6 qualified in mental health nursing, occupational therapy, social work or clinical associate psychology to join our team. If you are a Band 5 ready to make the step in your development, then we would love to hear from you too.

The access teams (and all the BANES teams) are very compassionate, and there will be many staff across the teams who would support you along your journey in your new role. As we work towards a home treatment model, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team including well established roles such as clinical associate psychologists. This range of scope allows for great interprofessional learning and training.

We really value our workforce. BANES Intensive is a great place to work within a team environment that is currently developing its intervention offer. This allows you to develop excellent clinical assessment, intervention and leadership skills which you might not get from other roles. The intensive team in BANES has nurtured many clinicians with personalised training options-from a clinical and leadership perspective. Many of these clinicians have gone on to achieve promotions in the locality, which has opened up roles within the team.