Senior Psychologist (equivalent to NHS afc 8a)

Changing Futures is a resource for Bristol. Our aim is to create sustainable change at individual, service & system levels and influence government policy & local commissioning. In line with Bristol's Multiple Disadvantage Strategy, this role will be integral to embedding My Team Around Me across Bristol as the way of supporting those most in need of coordinated multi-agency support.

Main duties of the job:

• The role will work collaboratively with the team manager to develop and support a specialist team providing system partners with the expertise to respond to identified clients using the My Team Around Me (MTAM) approach.
• They will have considerable experience of inspiring innovation, building skills and confidence and ensuring that support is delivered through the lenses of trauma informed principles, equality diversity and inclusion and coproduction, through the provision of clinical supervision, reflective practice, formulation, coaching and training.
• The successful applicant will support the identification of system change opportunities ensuring that learning generated is continually used to inform structural and systemic changes through the local human learning system the MTAM Exchange and specific targeted opportunities.

About Us:

Second Step is the lead agency, in a partnership of organisations, chosen by Bristol City Council, to deliver the MHCLG Changing Futures programme in Bristol to support people experiencing multiple disadvantage, including discrimination, homelessness, domestic abuse, mental health issues, drug and alcohol issues, and contact with the criminal justice system.

Job responsibilities:

• Support staff and system colleagues in developing psychological understandings of service users with multiple and complex needs. This may include participating in case review meetings, using psychological formulation to inform shared safety plans and providing consultation to staff managing crisis situations incorporating psychological, adversity and trauma-informed principles to proactively mitigate risk and support positive risk taking.
• Through collaboration with system partners, ensure that identified systems blocks are developed into full proposals to be progressed through the MTAM Exchange.
• Bring a psychological perspective to the MTAM Exchange, supporting colleagues to share learning and develop solutions including contributing the psychological underpinning for draft service proposals or policy and procedure reviews which constitute system change.
• Utilise knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures, PAT informed principles, MTAM Objectives and intersectionality to contribute to key meetings relating to Senior MTAM practitioners designated pathways.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Essential: Considerable experience and interest in working with people with histories of trauma e.g. personality disorder traits/presentations, multiple disadvantage including a range of adult mental health presentations and/or substance misuse, forensic histories and homelessness. Ability to formulate different ways of adapting and surviving using trauma informed frameworks.
• Significant experience offering supervision.
• Experience of developing and delivering psychological and trauma informed training to different audiences.
• Experience and interest in group facilitation and offering reflective contexts and developing and delivering training to various audiences.
• Experience of working autonomously across services or teams offering consultation and influencing the networks of support around individuals and creating system change.
• Experience of evaluation and audit.

• Desirable: Experience of working in NHS settings PCLS, primary and secondary care and/or inpatient.
• Experience of the voluntary sector.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details:

Employer name: Second Step

Address: 48-54 West Street, Bristol, BS2 0BL

Employer's website: https://www.second-step.co.uk/