Job summary

The Health and Wellbeing Team at Vinney Green is looking to recruit a highly motivated Psychologist to join our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team.

You will be part of ensuring a safe and psychologically-informed environment at Vinney Green, for both children and staff, in line with the Framework for Integrated Care (SECURE STAIRS). This dynamic and interesting role involves offering high-quality input to children, including evidence-based therapies and assessments of mental health, as well as a full range of indirect psychological work to support their care; consultation, formulation, reflective practice and training. You will have the necessary specialist professional skills and knowledge to undertake this wide range of activities with confidence.

You will be enthusiastic and highly motivated to provide a good quality, evidence-based psychological service within a changing environment, with experience of systemic and inter-professional working. You will be committed and skilled to engage with young people who have complex and multiple needs and may have had difficult life experiences, providing a safe environment where they are able to express themselves without fear of judgement or prejudice.

We are open to discussions with potential applicants who may be interested in this role under a preceptorship process.

Main duties of the job

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients 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 support of children, buy staff within and outside the team.
• To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologist, assistant psychologists, CAPs and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areas served by the Psychological Therapies Service.
• To develop and deliver training training in psychological therapies for multidisciplinary staff.

About us

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.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.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic psychologyservice.
• To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of childrens mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent.
• Eligible for Chartered Psychologist status.
• HPC Registered.
• Post qualification and further specialist training in specified specialist intervention

Desirable

• Supervision Training

Knowledge
Essential

• Clinical supervision/consultation with other professionals.
• Evidence based therapeutic interventions with client group.
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the specialism. Ability to use this knowledge to think systemically/ organizationally.
• Knowledge of relevant Legislation eg MH Act

Desirable

• Clinical supervision of clinical psychology trainees

Skills
Essential

• Good communication and liaison skills.
• Empathy/engagement skills with the client group.
• Ability to work effectively and flexibly as an integral member of a team.
• Well organised with good administration skills.

Desirable

• Clinical supervision of clinical psychology trainees

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.