Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Band 8a (or preceptorship) Perinatal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

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Job summary

Band 8a (or 7-8a preceptorship) Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Perinatal Mental Health

We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our supportive and highly skilled Community Perinatal Team working in the Bath and North East Somerset, Wiltshire and Swindon (BSW) area.This post would suit someone with established perinatal skills or someone interested in developing their skills and knowledge of working with complex presentations within a Perinatal context.We therefore welcome applications from experienced Psychologists and those who are either recently qualified or due to qualify soon, who may be appointed at a band 7 on a Preceptorship basis.

The BSW Community Perinatal team offers multi disciplinary care to families in the perinatal period (through pregnancy and up to a year postnatally). You would be providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions for often complex presenting problems, giving consideration to the mother-baby relationship and liaising with colleagues within the team as well as those in other mental health and maternity teams. Interventions are delivered using a blend of remote and face to face work. Clinical work will include individual, group and indirect work. Specialist supervision will be provided and there will be ample opportunities for the development of clinical skills. We also have good links to the Bath and Bristol training courses and offer clinical placements.

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and carers as appropriate to the service.

To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients' formulation and psychological management to other non-psychologist colleagues.

To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the various teams in the area and where appropriate outside of the area.

To clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals.

To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areas served by the Psychological Therapies Service.

To develop and deliver training in psychological therapies for multidisciplinary staff

About us

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.

The BSW Community Perinatal team is made up of a highly skilled and passionate group of health care professionals who offer multi disciplinary care to families in the perinatal period (through pregnancy and up to a year postnatally). Clinical and counselling psychologists play an integrative role in our MDT and are valued and well supported by colleagues.

Date posted

09 February 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £54,619 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-SS034-0223

Job locations

Banes, Swindon & Wiltshire Perinatal Community Team

Hathaway Medical Centre, Middlefield Road

Chippenham

SN14 6GT

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL

To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service .

To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessment , risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers ( as appropriate to the role).

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service

To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.

To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by teams.

To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust

To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.

To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.

To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent including acting as care co-ordinator as appropriate to the needs of the service .

To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner

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