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Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Chippenham

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 30 September 2024

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Job summary

Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Older Adults)

AFC Band 7 (preceptorship) / 8a - (0.8 WTE) - Permanent

Are you an enthusiastic, energetic and experienced Clinical / Counselling Psychologist committed to delivering equitable psychological care to service users, families and carers within later life services? Do you have an area of interest you'd like the support to develop, and the autonomy to develop it? Would you enjoy working within the beautiful county of Wiltshire?An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 (preceptorship) / 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to provide an essential role into our community mental health team in North and East Wiltshire (NEW) and support the wider Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. The role is primarily based in Chippenham and Devizes, but provides clinical services to the older adult population throughout Wiltshire.

We are an enthusiastic and innovative team which values the input and contribution of all our staff, and strives to offer the best services possible to our service users. As the provision of supervision, consultation and training to other colleagues within the service is both highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage. We would particularly value experience and/or training in neuropsychology and a range of therapeutic models.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated to provide an excellent evidenced-based psychological service within a changing environment. They will have experience of working with individuals in later life with complex and enduring psychological difficulties and cognitive impairment, and they will have a proven commitment to the development of later life services.

Working as both part of the Wiltshire PTS and the CMHT offers psychologists the chance to treat a range of disorders and presenting difficulties. This means that you can maintain your skills across a diverse client group, or further develop a specialist interest, such as neuropsychology.

As the provision of supervision, consultation and training to other colleagues within the service is both highlyvalued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would bean advantage. We would particularly value experience and/or training in CBT, DBT, MBT, CAT or ACT and groupbased working.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation withover 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.

Date posted

16 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £57,349 a year pro rata (Pay award pending)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-WTS226-0924

Job locations

Bewley House

Marshfield Road

Chippenham

SN15 1JW


Job description

Job responsibilities

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/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, CAPs and 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, CAPs and 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Doctoral Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent

Desirable

  • Post qualification training in evidence based therapy
  • Post Doctorate training in Neuropsychology

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working with severe mental health difficulties
  • Experience working with older adults

Desirable

  • Experience supervising staff
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Doctoral Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent

Desirable

  • Post qualification training in evidence based therapy
  • Post Doctorate training in Neuropsychology

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working with severe mental health difficulties
  • Experience working with older adults

Desirable

  • Experience supervising staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bewley House

Marshfield Road

Chippenham

SN15 1JW


Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bewley House

Marshfield Road

Chippenham

SN15 1JW


Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Dr Andy Bendell

andrew.bendell1@nhs.net

07784238886

Date posted

16 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £57,349 a year pro rata (Pay award pending)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-WTS226-0924

Job locations

Bewley House

Marshfield Road

Chippenham

SN15 1JW


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