Job summary
- Main area
- Banes Psychology Service
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-SS093-0625
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bath Drug and Alcohol Service
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata (pay award pending)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a Clinical Psychologist - Bath
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a qualified psychologist that is passionate about social justice? Are you interested providing evidence based psychological therapy to people who use alcohol and other drugs and supporting teams to work in psychologically informed ways?
We are looking for a Band 8a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist to join our new partnership service.
AWP are excited to be part of the multi-agency partnership led by Turning Point delivering community drug and alcohol treatment in Banes. This innovative remodelling of the drug and alcohol service draws on the unique and specific expertise of four providers (Turning Point, Bristol Drugs Project, Nelson Trust and AWP).
AWP’s role within the partnership to deliver the psychology aspects of the treatment system, working clinically with patients, to embed psychological informed ways of working into the wider workforce and to connect the drug treatment service with colleagues in community mental to improve quality of care for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic qualified Practitioner Psychologist to join the BaNES Psychological Therapies Service (PTS), which is part of a developing integrated drug and alcohol treatment system.
BaNES PTS is a friendly team of Psychologists and Therapists, who offer NICE recommended therapies to people across the locality services. In addition to our therapy offer, we work into all teams to enhance psychological and trauma informed thinking about distress (formulation, consultation, joint work etc). One of the senior Clinical Psychologists from PTS will offer Clinical Supervision to the post holder.
For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description
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
- To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service.
- To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients’ mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.
- To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.
- To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by teams.
- To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust.
- To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
- To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
- To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent including acting as care-coordinator as appropriate to the needs of the service.
- To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.
MANAGEMENT
- Delegated caseload supervision
- Represent the service at specialist meetings as requested
- The co-ordination of small scale projects as request
- experience of supervising of registered psychologists
For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description
Person specification
Clinical Psychology post
Essential criteria
- Doctoral clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent
- HCPC Registration
- Eligible for Chartered Psychologist status
- Post qualification and further specialist training in specified specialist intervention
- Experience in supervising of registered psychologists
Desirable criteria
- Supervision Training
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Care Co-ordination or equivalent role. Training others in MH services topics. Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues. Clinical supervision/consultation with other professionals. Evidence based therapeutic interventions with client group. Psychological assessment skills and knowledge. Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the specialism. Ability to use this knowledge to think systemically/ organizationally. Experience of risk assessment and management. Knowledge of relevant Legislation e.g. MH Act. Experience of delivery of training.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant R&D or clinical audit work post qualification. Clinical supervision of clinical psychology trainees.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively and flexibly as an integral member of a team. Good communication and liaison skills. Well organised with good administration skills. Empathy/engagement skills with the client group. Ability to cope with workload pressure/ prioritise workload. Ability to work independently. Self-awareness and emotional resilience.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.
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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
- Noreen Mughal
- Job title
- Community Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07521058734
- Additional information
Emma Griffiths - Head of Therapy - [email protected]
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