Job overview

A vacancy has arisen for a Psychologist to join FPDS. The role involves providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions to service users, as appropriate to the service. There is a strong emphasis on consultation and pathway planning advice for other agencies, including the National Probation Service, and for staff working with these service users, some of whom are in secure hospital placements outside the AWP Trust boundary. The role also includes providing clinical supervision to other registered psychologists, trainee and assistant psychologists, and other professionals. The post-holder should hold a relevant qualification and have experience working with service users with personality disorder and/or complex needs. Experience within a forensic setting would be advantageous, although not essential.

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 non-psychologist colleagues.
• To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the effective management of patients by various teams and agencies within the area, and where appropriate, outside the area.
• To clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy, and service development within the areas served by the Pathfinder Service.
• To develop and deliver training in psychological therapies for multidisciplinary staff.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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.