Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.

Are you an experienced Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist  with the enthusiasm, skills, and experience to join our exciting and vibrant CPI team based in Stroud and Cirencester?

We are an experienced psychological therapy team, consisting of an 8b clinical psychologist lead and a core team of 2.4 WTE psychological therapists (consisting of clinical psychology, art psychotherapy, CBT therapists and clinical associate psychologists). We regularly have assistant psychologists, trainees and students working with us. We are passionate about providing psychological therapy for adults with severe mental health problem, and we work closely with our colleagues in the recovery teams.

We are looking for a senior psychological practitioner colleague to support the development of  the Complex Psychological Therapy team and also support initiatives to develop psychologically informed interventions and environments across the mental health care system locally.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced psychological practitioner, with enthusiasm for working across multidisciplinary systems and with an adaptable approach to complex situations.

This post is open to all psychological professionals with appropriate experience and is a new post in the team at this level.

Main duties of the job

·       To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of clients in a designated locality or team within the Trust. 

·       To directly provide and coordinate highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention services to individuals/ groups/organisations, using a variety of applied psychology models.

·       To clinically supervise pre-qualified psychology staff and provide placements and supervision to Doctoral Clinical Psychology trainees and other trainees (as appropriate).

·       To support the development of psychologically informed practice across the recovery team and connected teams

·       To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development

• To support the team clinical lead for the day to day running of the psychology service in the team 
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and / or wider organisational matters need addressing
• To contribute to service development initiatives being progressed in the service / team

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.