Band 8b Clinical Psychologist - Bristol

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established Complex Psychological Interventions Team as a senior member. As an already experienced clinician, you will have opportunities to help shape the delivery of the service.

The successful candidate will lead an entirely autonomous and systematic, specialist area of responsibility for Older Adults within the Bristol Citywide Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) Service, for people with severe and complex mental health difficulties. In addition, as part of the Central Bristol CPI Service, you will work as a senior clinician, providing input to the Central & East Assessment and Recovery Team and the Central Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service.

Main duties of the job

1. To lead the Bristol Citywide Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) Service.
2. To work as a senior clinician, providing input to the Central & East Assessment and Recovery Team and the Central Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Service.
3. To offer an entirely autonomous highly specialist clinical psychology service. To provide specialist consultancy, advice, clinical supervision and training regarding Older Adults to qualified CPI staff and staff from other services.
4. To provide consultancy, advice and clinical supervision to staff in the Central & East Assessment and Recovery Team working with both Older Adults and Adults of Working Age.
5. To provide an advanced and specialist treatment role in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and other psychological interventions.
6. To undertake management/ leadership tasks as delegated by the manager including caseload, supervision, appraisals and service development.
7. To support relevant research and training in specialist clinical areas.

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.

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.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

Essential criteria

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent qualification in Clinical Psychology.
• Registered by the HCPC
• Relevant Specialist CPD training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post qualification experience in the NHS of working with both Older Adults and Adults of Working Age experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
• Experience of service development and clinical leadership in services for Older Adults.
• Significant experience of managing staff within an NHS setting
• Experience of Lecturing/Teaching/Training Psychologists and other professions.
• Supervision experience with other professions.

Specialised Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions with client group
• Specialist knowledge and skills in working with Older Adults
• Expert knowledge of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

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 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.