Band 8a - Clinical Psychologist - Bath

Job overview

Are you a qualified psychologist that is passionate about social justice? Are you interested providing evidence based psychological therapy to people who use alcohol and other drugs and supporting teams to work in psychologically informed ways?

We are looking for a Band 8a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist to join our new partnership service.

AWP are excited to be part of the multi-agency partnership led by Turning Point delivering community drug and alcohol treatment in Banes.  This innovative remodelling of the drug and alcohol service draws on the unique and specific expertise of four providers (Turning Point, Bristol Drugs Project, Nelson Trust and AWP).

AWP’s role within the partnership to deliver the psychology aspects of the treatment system, working clinically with patients, to embed psychological informed ways of working into the wider workforce and to connect the drug treatment service with colleagues in community mental to improve quality of care for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic qualified Practitioner Psychologist to join the BaNES Psychological Therapies Service (PTS), which is part of a developing integrated drug and alcohol treatment system. BaNES PTS is a friendly team of Psychologists and Therapists, who offer NICE recommended therapies to people across the locality services. In addition to our therapy offer, we work into all teams to enhance psychological and trauma informed thinking about distress (formulation, consultation, joint work etc). One of the senior Clinical Psychologists from PTS will offer Clinical Supervision to the post holder.

For more details of job description please see JD file attached

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL

• 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 client’s 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 participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
• To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
• To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent including acting as care-coordinator as appropriate to the needs of the service.
• To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.

MANAGEMENT

• Delegated caseload supervision
• Represent the service at specialist meetings as requested
• The co-ordination of small scale projects as requested

For more details of job description please see JD file attached