Principal Practioner Psychologist AOT/GRIP

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a specialist to work in Gloucester and Cheltenham as part of their mental health services. The role requires working with adults facing severe mental health issues and involves providing psychological formulation, supervision, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience to support psychological care pathways within the team, ensuring effective assessments and interventions are delivered.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological formulation and assessment.
• Ability to contribute to quality improvement and service development.
• Training in supervision and reflective practice.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of MDT's providing specialist psychological formulation.
• Provide supervision and consultation/advice to colleagues.
• Lead workstreams on psychological approaches to care.

Skills

Psychological formulation

Direct care

Supervision

Quality improvement

Team consultation

Job description

This role covers teams based in Gloucester, Cheltenham and across the county. All reasonable flexible working requests will be considered, but the post holder will be expected to work across sites in line with service need.

Our specialist mental health services work with adults with severe mental health problems. About 60% of the people we work with have experienced psychosis, and we aim to provide psychologically and trauma informed care and evidence based interventions including CBT‑P and Family Therapy.

In this role you will:

• Work as part of MDT's providing specialist psychological formulation, assessment and direct care.
• Provide supervision, reflective practice and consultation/advice to colleagues and teams,
• Contribute to quality improvement and service development, including research and development activities such as teaching.
• Leading workstreams on psychological approaches to care, and specifically working as a part of our developing psychosis pathways
• Line manage, supervise and support other psychological professionals, assistants and trainees.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.