Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Swindon
We are looking to welcome an enthusiastic and compassionate Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, who can play a significant part in enhancing and developing the psychological care of children and young people with diabetes across our locality. Ideally, you will have previous experience of working in physical healthcare settings and will be looking to apply and expand your knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology in this area further.
You will be working alongside and be responsible to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Health and will join an expanding clinical health psychology service covering Cancer Care, Adult Diabetes, Pain Management, Critical Care, Stroke Rehabilitation and Staff Health and Wellbeing. The department has good links with the Bath Doctoral Clinical Psychology Course and is committed to continuing professional development.
Depending on experience, we will consider a preceptorship post, where we will appoint at Band 7, with progression to the Band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme.
Main duties of the job
The key purpose of this combined post is to deliver specialist clinical/counselling psychology services within paediatric diabetes.
This will include providing specialist psychological interventions to in- and out-patients and family members as appropriate; providing 'indirect' clinical input to the paediatric diabetes MDT staff; using knowledge and skills to identify and implement audit, research and service development work; and be involved in the continued professional development and supervision of roles such as assistant psychologists or placements as they arise.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities (see JD for further detail)
* Being responsible and accountable for the direct delivery of psychological services within Paediatric Diabetes.
* Providing highly specialist psychological intervention to the young person, their family and their wider support network e.g. schools, local authorities, CAMHS.
* Co-facilitating clinics.
* Providing support to the paediatric diabetes multi-disciplinary team.
* Delivering relevant training workshops.
* Facilitating reflective practice sessions.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Registration
* Accredited British Psychological Society (BPS) Doctoral Clinical/Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Experience
* Post-qualification specialist experience in the field of clinical health psychology
* Post-qualification specialist experience working with complex needs
* Post-qualification experience working with the relevant client group or in the relevant service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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