Band 8a Later Life Clinical Counselling Psychologist - Warminster

Job overview

Looking for the range of clinical work found in a friendly Community Mental Health Team?

Still want the support of a Psychological Therapies Service?

Do you have an area of interest you’d like the support and autonomy to develop?

Then this is the role for you!

This application is open to experienced Clinical Psychologists. The vacancy is within the West Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service, primarily based in Warminster, Devizes, and Trowbridge, while providing clinical services to the older adult population throughout Wiltshire.

Working as part of both the Wiltshire PTS and CMHT offers psychologists the opportunity to treat a range of disorders and presenting difficulties. This means you can maintain your skills across a diverse client group or further develop a specialist interest, such as neuropsychology.

In Wiltshire, the service is needs-led (‘ageless’), offering care for both functional and organic conditions to all adults aged 18 and over. This role will focus on clients from the older adult population.

Main duties of the job

This post is within the multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We are an enthusiastic and innovative team that values the input and contribution of all our staff and strives to offer the best possible services to our clients.

We provide a wide range of psychological therapies, including CBT, EMDR, ACT, DBT, CAT, Integrative approaches, Schema-focused therapy, Mindfulness-based interventions, and Solution-focused methods, delivered in both group and individual contexts, primarily on an outpatient basis.

About You

The successful applicant will have clearly demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with people from the older adult age range. For this senior role, you will be able to demonstrate experience of working with different client groups in secondary mental health settings, and of having been responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions. You will need to show evidence of clinical leadership and innovations that have improved services in which you have worked.

As the provision of supervision, consultation, and training to colleagues within the service is highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage. We would particularly value experience and/or training in neuropsychology, ACT, and group-based working.

For the full Job Description and Person Specification, please refer to the attached documents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a high-quality, largely autonomous, and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service.
• To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessments, risk assessments, and assessments 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 on an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s difficulties and employing evidence-based methods 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, delivered individually or in combination. This includes adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several 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 various teams within the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients.
• 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 monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
• To support the full implementation of YTCP (Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan) or equivalent, including acting as key worker as appropriate to the needs of the service.
• To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.

For further information or to discuss this vacancy, we encourage you to contact:

Dr Andy Bendell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist

📞 Tel: 07412 603442