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Job requirements
Essential
5 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Considerable experience and interest in working with people with histories of trauma and multiple disadvantage including a range of adult mental health presentations and/or substance misuse, forensic histories and homelessness.
- Experience
Experience in working in NHS or VCSE mental health settings with fluctuating and complex risk presentations
- Experience
Significant experience offering supervision.
- Experience
Experience in group facilitation and offering reflective contexts and developing and delivering training to various audiences.
- Experience
Experience of working autonomously across services or teams offering consultation and influencing the networks of support around individuals and creating system change
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of the voluntary sector and/or working across multiple services/teams simultaneously
- Experience
Experience of working with clients with High intensity use of services
Job summary
Second Step have been delivering the HWYNI service across Bristol since 2024. After a successful recommissioning process, from 1st October 2026, Second Step joined in partnership with Rethink to deliver the Help When You Need It service with additional components to support inclusion and psychological, adversity and trauma (PAT) informed practice to enhance both client and staff experience and outcomes. This new senior psychologist role within the service is fundamental to achieve our ambitions. Together, we will provide practical goal-focused support for adults with mental health needs and their carers, helping people access the right support at the right time, building on their strengths, allowing them to achieve goals and more sustainable recovery journeys.
Main duties of the job
This is a unique opportunity for a self-motivated, forward-thinking psychologist to be responsible for introducing a PAT approach to HWYNI to shape the culture of the team and support clients and staff to thrive.
About us
Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South-West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and other needs. We promote wellbeing by supporting people and communities to build brighter futures. We value relationships and making sense of what has happened to those accessing our services, rather than labelling what is wrong with them.
Details
- Date posted: 14 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £57,008 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: SEC1243227
- Job locations: 162 Pennywell Road (Head Office), St Jude's, Bristol, BS5 0TX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Work alongside the team, service and senior operations managers to ensure effective development of the new community HWYNI service. Provide a psychological perspective representing the voluntary sector within management and multi-agency meetings. Work closely with our Head of Psychology to ensure the service and psychological offers within this align with Second Steps wider PAT strategy. Provide psychological consultation/coaching to managers and internal staff to promote understanding of a PAT informed approach. Support effective change management, cultural development and team cohesion. Share learning with external stakeholder organisations, to build psychologically informed capacity across the system. Be a representative for the voluntary sector and Second Step, promoting our reputation as a PAT informed organisation and liaise with and attend relevant meetings with delivery partners and stakeholders e.g. Rethink etc as required. Develop and report on relevant key performance indicators associated with the delivery of psychology and evaluation of processes as required.
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This advert is for Senior Psychologist (Help When You Need It) with Second Step in Bristol, England. It is listed as a Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57008.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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