Job overview

We are looking to recruit an experienced Practitioner Psychologist (clinical/counselling/forensic) to the new Mental Health Integrated Network Team (MINT) in South Glos. As part of the Community Mental Health Framework, we are delivering an exciting transformation programme to support people with mental health needs to get the help they need efficiently, and close to home. The team aims to meet the needs of service users that fall through the gap between primary and secondary care services.

You will provide psychological formulations, consultation, supervision and training to multidisciplinary professionals both within the team and to partner agencies. There will be opportunities for the delivery of medium term therapy within MINT, as well as possibilities to provide long term therapy within the local South Glos. PTS service.

The MINT service uses uses critical community psychology principles as a frame to meet service users needs, therefore applicants with an interest in applying critical community/liberation psychology models are encouraged to apply. As a service we are commitment to address issues of structural inequalities and oppression that often create barriers in the provision of equitable care for the service user groups in the locality. 

You will be well supported with a range of opportunities for continue professional development, accreditation in CBT, DBT, EMDR, Systemic Family Therapy or other relevant specialism. We support flexible working.   

Main duties of the job

·       The post holder will provide clinical leadership alongside the MINT team manager to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Integrated Network Team (MINT), including (but not limited to) guiding principles of the clinical framework, the delivery of a psychologically informed service, psychological interventions, and Quality Assurance of those interventions.

·       The post holder will use their specialist psychological knowledge and skills to provide a formulation based care service to inform the effective management of service users, families and carers, within the local MINT.

·       To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to service users 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 management of service users by the various teams working into the local MINT and in the area.

·       To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs) and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals where indicated.

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.