Job overview

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Are you motivated by reducing custodial sentences for people with mental health issues and stopping the cycle of re-offending? The Integrated Non-Custodial Service IN-CS is a trauma informed all age all vulnerability service, which will provide safe and effective, assessment, signposting, interventions, diversion, prevention and support for individuals suspected of or charged with a criminal offence. IN-CS will bring services together to provide a single integrated model of care that operates across the criminal justice pathway, from police custody through to release from prison. If so, the role of Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Integrated Non-Custodial services will provide you with the opportunity to work as clinical lead for our Avon Mental Health Treatment service and across our new integrated non-custodial service (INCS) service system.

The post holder will be instrumental in the development, implementation and delivery of the clinical model, especially in relation to the development and leadership of trauma informed care and trauma informed environment that supports staff to provide this. Also taking a leadership role within both the IN-CS working in collaboration with people with lived experience, operational managers, the teams and other stakeholders to co-produce service provision and development.

Main duties of the job

As the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will provide specialist integrated clinical leadership and management across the INCS system, as clinical lead for the MHTR service, across AWP and the wider system. You will lead the strategic development and groundwork e.g. trauma informed care and staff well-being for the INCS system and clinical leadership for the MHTR service, underpinned by a culture of learning, continuous evaluation and compassionate, inclusive and collective leadership.

As clinical lead the post-holder will play a key role in developing and implementing the psychological vision for the MHTR service and will focus on the provision of clinical oversight in relation to psychological therapies to the team, ensuring evidence based, effective psychosocial and psychologically informed interventions are available that impact and support changes to peoples mental health and offending behaviour.

The role will also include providing training, reflective practice, clinical supervision and team formulation. As well as a programme of service evaluation, hosting trainee/student placements and promoting involvement in research opportunities that facilitate the development of the evidence base. Please see job description for more information.

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

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.

You will receive excellent support and supervision from well-established management and therapies teams. There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.

Issues of diversity, accessibility and equality of access are priorities for any successful applicant.