Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Band 8c Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Swindon

The closing date is 13 August 2025

Job summary

We are looking to welcome an enthusiastic, compassionate and experienced Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, who can play a significant part in enhancing and developing the psychological care of adults with diabetes across our locality. You will have previous experience of leadership and working in diabetes and physical healthcare settings, and will be looking to apply and expand your knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology in this area further.

The post holder will be joining an established team of psychological professionals working within a range of areas at Great Western Hospital, including Cancer Services, Pain Management, Critical Care, Weight Management, Paediatric Diabetes and Staff Health and Wellbeing. We meet regularly as a team for departmental team meeting, and value CPD, creativity and team wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the clinical, strategic and operational lead for the GWH Adult Diabetes Psychology Service. This will require working autonomously within professional, trust and departmental guidelines, and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the diabetes psychology service. They will be responsible for developing, leading, managing and providing an entirely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to adult patients of the Diabetes Care team in the general hospital setting. The post holder will be responsible for enhancing the psychological care provided by the specialist diabetes care team in a variety of ways, including consultancy and training with the adult diabetes team, and will carry an appropriate clinical caseload of patients with a wide variety of difficulties and presentations, as well as contributing to appropriate multidisciplinary interventions and pathways within the service. As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, the post holder will be accountable for his/her own professional actions and will also manage and supervise otherpsychologists working across diabetes and/or endocrinology services. In collaboration with the Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, the post holder will carry out and contribute to audit, policy and service development, and research activities and/or programmes as appropriate and required

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

Date posted

30 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£76,965 to £88,682 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

342-SWN064-0725

Job locations

Great Western Hospital

Marlborough Road

Swindon

SN3 6BB

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

Developing, leading, managing and providing an entirely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to adult patients of the Diabetes Care team in the acute hospital setting.
Enhancing the psychological care provided by the specialist diabetes care team in a variety of ways, including consultancy and training with the adult diabetes team,
Carrying an appropriate clinical caseload of patients with a wide variety of difficulties and presentations, as well as contributing to appropriate multidisciplinary interventions and pathways within the service.
Managing and supervising other psychologists working across diabetes and/or endocrinology services.
In collaboration with the Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, the post holder will carry out and contribute to audit, policy and service development, and research activities and/or programmes as appropriate and required.

Please see the JD for further details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

Developing, leading, managing and providing an entirely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to adult patients of the Diabetes Care team in the acute hospital setting.
Enhancing the psychological care provided by the specialist diabetes care team in a variety of ways, including consultancy and training with the adult diabetes team,
Carrying an appropriate clinical caseload of patients with a wide variety of difficulties and presentations, as well as contributing to appropriate multidisciplinary interventions and pathways within the service.
Managing and supervising other psychologists working across diabetes and/or endocrinology services.
In collaboration with the Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, the post holder will carry out and contribute to audit, policy and service development, and research activities and/or programmes as appropriate and required.

Please see the JD for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Registration

Essential

Accredited British Psychological Society (BPS) Doctoral Clinical/Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Additional study/qualifications in illness or health psychology and related treatment

Experience

Essential

Extensive clinical experience post qualification of working in an acute setting with adults with diabetes and/or other complex medical health conditions.
Extensive experience of, and commitment to, multidisciplinary working.
Experience of leadership
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision to other health professionals, qualified clinical psychologists and clinical psychologists in training.
Post-qualification experience of service development and planning

Desirable

Experience of representing the profession in local or regional policy forums.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Registration

Essential

Accredited British Psychological Society (BPS) Doctoral Clinical/Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Additional study/qualifications in illness or health psychology and related treatment

Experience

Essential

Extensive clinical experience post qualification of working in an acute setting with adults with diabetes and/or other complex medical health conditions.
Extensive experience of, and commitment to, multidisciplinary working.
Experience of leadership
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision to other health professionals, qualified clinical psychologists and clinical psychologists in training.
Post-qualification experience of service development and planning

Desirable

Experience of representing the profession in local or regional policy forums.

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.

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

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

Great Western Hospital

Marlborough Road

Swindon

SN3 6BB

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

Great Western Hospital

Marlborough Road

Swindon

SN3 6BB

Employer's website

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