Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Swindon Psychological Therapies Service (PTS).

There are two elements to the job:

1. Windswept ward (0.4 wte): Windswept is a 14 bedded rehabilitation unit, providing input for adults of working age, experiencing complex mental health difficulties, most typically psychosis. The unit provides holistic care, including perspectives from a multi-disciplinary team. The ward is currently embarked on an exciting project to repatriate people who have been in long term, out of area placements, and to find creative ways to meet their needs more locally.
2. Community (0.6 wte): We are co-located with the Recovery team and work closely with them to deliver high quality, evidence based interventions. There are opportunities to develop more specialist skills in working with a variety of different presentations in this part of the job. However, many of the people referred to Swindon PTS have a history of complex traumatic experiences, so experience of working with these presentations would be invaluable.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide assessment, formulation and psychological intervention for service users during their admission to Windswept. Consultation, training and facilitation of team formulation would be key aspects of the role. Psychology input to the ward is well established and highly valued by the multi-disciplinary team.

For the community part of the role, the post holder would provide assessment, formulation and ongoing psychological intervention to service users with complex mental health difficulties. As part of the CMHF transformation, there will also be opportunities to provide training and supervision to colleagues from other disciplines in the delivery of psychologically informed interventions.