Band 8a Psychologist - Bristol

Job overview

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic 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 children’s mental health needs, 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.

Please see Job Description for full details