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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 west 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.
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 West Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team (WW-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 WW-CMHT is a multi-disciplinary secondary care team that specialises in delivering high quality interventions to adults of working age living across the west of Wiltshire. We are based in Warminster, Devizes and Trowbridge 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 specialise 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.