Band 7 Clinical / Counselling Psychologist -Devizes

Would you like to be a part of a growing and successful psychology service and also feel included and embedded within a MDT community mental health team? In north and east Wiltshire, you have the opportunity for both whilst living and working in a beautiful rural setting with accessible links to Bath, Bristol, Trowbridge, and Salisbury. This role is highly supported to form a secure platform for your future career. Previous post-holders have always moved on to higher banded posts within our own service. We support people to follow their clinical interests, or remain broad depending on their preference.

Main duties of the job

We are an enthusiastic and innovative team who value the input and contribution of all our team members and strive to offer the best service possible to our service users. The team has been active in launching new therapeutic initiatives such as compassion focused therapy groups and acceptance and commitment therapy programmes. We aim to offer a wide range of psychological therapies including CBT, EMDR, ACT, DBT, CAT, Integrative, Schema focused, Mindfulness, and Solution focused ways of working, in both group and individual contexts.

We are looking for a compassionate, thoughtful, and enthusiastic practitioner psychologist to join our friendly, close-knit team. We would welcome a psychologist who can demonstrate an interest in working with service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and a commitment to improving their wellbeing through direct clinical interventions and/or contributions to psychologically-informed care plans. We would particularly welcome someone with an interest in building the provision of evidence-based practice in an area of their interest (psychosis, trauma, mood disorders, or personality disorders).

We are looking for someone with the desire to develop their clinical skills to their full potential and would support this with regular supervision and line management from a senior practitioner psychologist or above, CPD and training. Applications are invited from suitably qualified staff for the above vacancy in the North and East Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team (NEW-CMHT) / Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We will consider applicants coming to the end of their clinical training who are looking to start their career here in Wiltshire.

The NEW-CMHT is a multi-disciplinary secondary care team that specializes in delivering high-quality interventions to adults of working age living across the north and east of Wiltshire. We are based in Chippenham and Devizes but occasionally provide clinical services to other areas of Wiltshire.

Assessments

You would be supported to offer psychological assessments of clients based in the community with severe and enduring mental health needs. These would then lead to a psychological formulation from which we would develop a care plan.

Interventions

You will offer psychological therapy under expert supervision. This ranges from brief interventions to lengthy therapeutic input depending on the need and presenting difficulties of the service user. Opportunities are available to specialize in specific psychological therapy models. We have been successful in putting our psychologists forward to further CBT, CAT, MBT, and EMDR training. Our trust also runs a well-respected internal DBT training programme on a regular basis.

Psychological consultation

You will be advising non-psychologically trained staff in the psychological perspectives of mental health, and offering your view on psychological factors influencing other service users.

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 a 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 recognize 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.