Employer Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Great Western Hospital Town Swindon Salary £76,965 - £88,682 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/08/2025 23:59
Band 8c Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Swindon
Band 8c
Job overview
We are looking to welcome an enthusiastic, compassionate and experienced Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, who can play a significant part in enhancing and developing the psychological care of adults with diabetes across our locality. You will have previous experience of leadership and working in diabetes and physical healthcare settings, and will be looking to apply and expand your knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology in this area further.
The post holder will be joining an established team of psychological professionals working within a range of areas at Great Western Hospital, including Cancer Services, Pain Management, Critical Care, Weight Management, Paediatric Diabetes and Staff Health and Wellbeing. We meet regularly as a team for departmental team meeting, and value CPD, creativity and team wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be the clinical, strategic and operational lead for the GWH Adult Diabetes Psychology Service. This will require working autonomously within professional, trust and departmental guidelines, and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the diabetes psychology service. They will be responsible for developing, leading, managing and providing an entirely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to adult patients of the Diabetes Care team in the general hospital setting. The post holder will be responsible for enhancing the psychological care provided by the specialist diabetes care team in a variety of ways, including consultancy and training with the adult diabetes team, and will carry an appropriate clinical caseload of patients with a wide variety of difficulties and presentations, as well as contributing to appropriate multidisciplinary interventions and pathways within the service. As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, the post holder will be accountable for his/her own professional actions and will also manage and supervise otherpsychologists working across diabetes and/or endocrinology services. In collaboration with the Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, the post holder will carry out and contribute to audit, policy and service development, and research activities and/or programmes as appropriate and required
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
* Developing, leading, managing and providing an entirely autonomous and systematic clinical psychology service to adult patients of the Diabetes Care team in the acute hospital setting.
* Enhancing the psychological care provided by the specialist diabetes care team in a variety of ways, including consultancy and training with the adult diabetes team,
* Carrying an appropriate clinical caseload of patients with a wide variety of difficulties and presentations, as well as contributing to appropriate multidisciplinary interventions and pathways within the service.
* Managing and supervising other psychologists working across diabetes and/or endocrinology services.
* In collaboration with the Lead for Clinical Health Psychology, the post holder will carry out and contribute to audit, policy and service development, and research activities and/or programmes as appropriate and required.
Please see the JD for further details.
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)
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Additional study/qualifications in illness or health psychology and related treatment
Experience
* Extensive clinical experience post qualification of working in an acute setting with adults with diabetes and/or other complex medical health conditions.
* Extensive experience of, and commitment to, multidisciplinary working.
* Experience of leadership
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision to other health professionals, qualified clinical psychologists and clinical psychologists in training.
* Post-qualification experience of service development and planning
* Experience of representing the profession in local or regional policy forums.
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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