Band 8a Inpatient Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work at Callington Road Hospital delivering psychological assessments, formulations and interventions on Alder Rehabilitation Ward, as well as contributing to the site-wide psychology group programme. We use Comprehend Cope Connect as our core model for delivering CBT-based interventions adapted for acute mental health needs. Experience of working on wards or with people experiencing acute mental health problems would be valuable.

The post-holder will work two days a week on Alder Rehabilitation ward providing psychological assessments, formulations and interventions, as well as leading team formulation and contributing psychological knowledge to the Alder MDT. They will spend a further day running a site-wide CBT based group with Lived Experience Practitioner colleagues and contributing to the Inpatient Psychology team including development/delivery of tasks relating to the Inpatient Transformation Programme.

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.

To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service. 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 clients mental health problems, 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. To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.

To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by teams. To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust. To…