Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 8a Psychologist - Bristol
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Psychologist Role at Vinney Green
The Health and Wellbeing Team at Vinney Green is looking to recruit a highly motivated Psychologist to join our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team.
You will be part of ensuring a safe and psychologically-informed environment at Vinney Green, for both children and staff, in line with the Framework for Integrated Care (SECURE STAIRS). This dynamic and interesting role involves offering high-quality input to children, including evidence-based therapies and assessments of mental health, as well as a full range of indirect psychological work to support their care; consultation, formulation, reflective practice, and training. You will have the necessary specialist professional skills and knowledge to undertake this wide range of activities with confidence.
You will be enthusiastic and highly motivated to provide a good quality, evidence-based psychological service within a changing environment, with experience of systemic and inter-professional working. You will be committed and skilled to engage with young people who have complex and multiple needs and may have had difficult life experiences, providing a safe environment where they are able to express themselves without fear of judgement or prejudice.
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We are open to discussions with potential applicants who may be interested in this role under a preceptorship process.
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 support of children, by staff within and outside the team.
- To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologist, 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.
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.
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.
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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: Jodie Rawlings
Job title: Clinical Lead
Email address: jodie.rawlings2@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0117 970 2286
Jane Anderson
Email address: jane.anderson12@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07825256866
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