Job summary
- Main area
- Band 6 Clinical Associate Psychologist - BaNES Intensive/Home Treatment
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-BNS038-0625
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hillview Lodge
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP) - Bath
Band 6
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Clinical Associate Psychologist to join our Crisis Home Treatment Team in BANES, and form part of our Multi Disciplinary Team.
The role of a clinical associate psychologist is already well established and supported in the team, offering interventions for service users who are experiencing complex mental health difficulties, and who may otherwise need to be in hospital.
The Clinical Associate Psychologist will be able to practice autonomously with appropriate support, working within their scope of practice, under the supervision of a registered clinical psychologist and within the Intensive Team MDT.
The Intensive Team operates 08:00-22:00 7 days a week - therefore shift and weekend working will be required. We offer generous enhanced pay for anti social hours which includes weekends. There is a possibility of long day working if preferred or single shifts. You will also have access to rota requests which we work very hard to facilitate.
Main duties of the job
- Working within the scope and remit of an Intensive Service, delivering care and interventions to service users and families, as an alternative to hospital admission.
- Professional liaison and planning care
- Working within the MDT
- Risk assessment and front line psycho-social assessment skills
- This role is semi autonomous working under supervision of a local Clinical Psychologist/ BABCP accredited practitioner responsible for
- Psychological assessment and formulation of a specified client group depending on service need and skills/training on practitioner.
- Offer defined evidence based psychological interventions to that specific client group,
- Working with Service Users with complex mental health problems
- You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing training and supervision.
- To offer psychological interventions alongside the MDT
- Shift co-ordination
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Associates in Psychology:
- Are accountable professionals delivering psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within their scope of practice.
Use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions.
May work with and communicate with patients in their own home, in the community or hospital, or in any settings where their needs are supported and managed.
May work with individuals and groups with complex and long-term needs.
Act as a psychological resource providing support, guidance and supervision using psychological models to the wider health or social care teams.
Provide training to others to inform psychological interventions
Use psychological measurement tools to evaluate psychological treatments and improve the quality of clinical practice.
Complement the work of Clinical Psychologists
Often deliver treatment interventions developed with a Clinical Psychologist who will review their practice through supervision.
Provide a range of psychological treatments working within their scope of practice, whilst the supervising Clinical Psychologist retains overall clinical responsibility for their work.
Undertake research
Report to a Clinical Psychologist in terms of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
Clinical Associates in Psychology are responsible for:
- Planning, delivering and evaluating psychological interventions which may include more long-term and complex presentations.
Working with individuals or groups with long-term and complex needs.
acting as a psychological resource to the wider health or social care teams including residential settings.
Managing their own caseload while undertaking their own clinical programmes of work, within their scope of practice.
Seeing patients in their own homes or in the community.
Performing assessments as well as planning and evaluating their own psychological interventions.
Conducting risk management assessments and evaluations.
their own learning and development using reflection and feedback to analyse their own capabilities.
Ensuring that resources are managed effectively.
Participating in the delivery of audit and service improvement projects.
engaging in their own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain and update their psychological scope of practice.
Meeting their clinical psychology supervisor on a weekly basis in accordance with British Psychological Society (BPS) standards for accredited practice.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical associate in psychology (CAP) (integrated degree) - with accreditation with professional body
- Psychology Degree (BSc).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working with adults with mental health and/or personality disorder
- Supervision of staff within own or other profession (including peer supervision)
- Specialist assessment, including risk assessment and formulation skills
Desirable criteria
- Crisis team/acute mental health experience - or passion for wanting to work in this field
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective team player with very good communication skills
- Self-awareness and emotional resilience in face of highly distressing situations
- Assessment and risk formulation skills
- Access to a vehicle with business insurance
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anna Piercy
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01225 362814
- Additional information
Adam Davison - Senior Practitioner 01225 362814
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