Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 8a Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist - Bristol
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 8a Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist to join AWP Secure Services on a fixed-term basis to provide maternity leave cover.
This role will be primarily based within Wickham Low Secure Service, with opportunities to work across our medium and low secure hospitals.
You will also join a diverse and highly skilled Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) which includes Clinical, Forensic and Counselling Psychologists, Art, Drama and Music Psychotherapists, alongside trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists and psychology students.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising medical, nursing, occupational therapy, social work and speech and language therapy colleagues, providing senior psychological leadership and contributing to formulation-driven assessment, intervention and care planning.
Secure Inpatient Services
Secure Inpatient Services consists of Fromeside, an 81-bed medium secure unit, and Wickham, a 30-bed low secure unit, both located on the Blackberry Hill Hospital site in North Bristol. The service includes a specialist women's ward and a ward for men with learning disabilities and/or autism. Our large and friendly psychology team has expertise in violence, sexual offending, firesetting, learning disabilities, autism, personality disorder and psychosis.
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Role Details
The role will involve providing direct clinical work, consultation, teaching, staff support, and supervision for assistant psychologists and Band 7 psychologists, as well as working collaboratively with other members of the MDT, including psychiatry, nursing, arts psychotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists. The role will also involve completing specialist assessments, developing complex formulations, and designing and delivering individualised therapeutic interventions, as well as facilitating therapeutic groups and engaging in complex systemic work. There will also be opportunities to engage in service development projects.
Requirements
The successful post-holder will need to be adaptable and creative, have good communication and team-working skills, and have experience and/or an interest in working with people with significant mental health difficulties, such as psychosis, who present a significant risk to others. There will be regular supervision and support for the role.
Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
About AWP
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: Darius Cavina
- Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: Darius.cavina@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0117 378 4300
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