Job overview

Looking for the range of clinical work found in a friendly Community Mental Health Team?

Still want the support of a Psychological Therapies Service?

Do you have an area of interest you’d like the support and autonomy to develop?

Then this is the role for you!

This application is open to experienced Clinical Psychologists. The vacancy is within the West Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service, primarily based in Warminster, Devizes, and Trowbridge, while providing clinical services to the older adult population throughout Wiltshire.

Working as part of both the Wiltshire PTS and CMHT offers psychologists the opportunity to treat a range of disorders and presenting difficulties. This means you can maintain your skills across a diverse client group or further develop a specialist interest, such as neuropsychology.

In Wiltshire, the service is needs-led (‘ageless’), offering care for both functional and organic conditions to all adults aged 18 and over. This role will focus on clients from the older adult population.

Main duties of the job

This post is within the multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We are an enthusiastic and innovative team that values the input and contribution of all our staff and strives to offer the best possible services to our clients.

We provide a wide range of psychological therapies, including CBT, EMDR, ACT, DBT, CAT, Integrative approaches, Schema-focused therapy, Mindfulness-based interventions, and Solution-focused methods, delivered in both group and individual contexts, primarily on an outpatient basis.

About You

The successful applicant will have clearly demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with people from the older adult age range. For this senior role, you will be able to demonstrate experience of working with different client groups in secondary mental health settings, and of having been responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions. You will need to show evidence of clinical leadership and innovations that have improved services in which you have worked.

As the provision of supervision, consultation, and training to colleagues within the service is highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage. We would particularly value experience and/or training in neuropsychology, ACT, and group-based working.

For the full Job Description and Person Specification, please refer to the attached documents.

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.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.