Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - Swindon
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Band 4 Assistant Psychologist (Family Safeguarding Team) - 2 full time posts
The Family Safeguarding Team is an innovative partnership model between Swindon Borough Council and a network of other statutory and voluntary sector organisations. The wider Family Safeguarding Team is comprised of substance misuse, domestic abuse, adult mental health workers and children’s social workers. Workers from specialist organisations join together to form one team working with families. The Family Safeguarding Team focuses on working to develop parents’ strengths to positively change their behaviour and relationships in order to improve their children’s lives. By assisting parents to make positive changes more children can stay at home with their birth family and thrive, not just survive.
We are recruiting to two Assistant Psychologist roles, both of which are available with full time hours. These roles are positioned within the aspect of the service that focuses on the mental health of parents. The postholders will contribute to the creation of psychologically and trauma informed environments and will practice in the context of family safeguarding, under the supervision of the Principal Practitioner Psychologist.
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This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.
Responsibilities
- Working closely with other practitioners within the Family Safeguarding Team the postholders will provide advice and signposting around access to appropriate sources of support for parents with mental health needs. This might include access to third sector provision or to statutory mental health services.
- The postholders will also provide direct psychological interventions, either on an individual or group basis, under the supervision of the Principal Practitioner Psychologist.
- There is also scope to contribute to the ongoing development and evaluation of the service.
Requirements
- This is a challenging but rewarding context in which to work so a good level of emotional resilience is a core requirement.
About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Martina Halmagyi
- Job title: Principal Counselling Psychologist FST
- Email address: m.halmagyi1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07889 953069
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