Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00)
- Job ref
- 342-SS078-0726
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucester Probation Office
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £28,392 - £31,157 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 4 Assistant Psychologist (OPD) - Gloucester
Band 4
Job overview
Interviews will be the 3rd and 4th of September
We are looking to recruit a full time Assistant Psychologist into the Psychologically Informed Pathway Service at AWP. PIPS, as a part of the national OPD pathway, is a large, community based, multidisciplinary team that has developed innovative approaches to working with high-risk offenders with Personality Disorders. These service users are seen by the National Probation Service in Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and PIPS covers the caseload within these areas.
As a service we cover Probation Offices based in Bristol, Bath, North Somerset, Swindon, Chippenham, Salisbury, and Gloucester. In addition, we cover 3 Male and 1 Female Approved Premises in Bristol, and 1 Male Approved Premises in Gloucester.
We support a hybrid working model where we encourage staff to work from home 40% of the working week, and in an office space for 60% of their working week. Each staff member has an allocated geographical area with a central office in that area. They will be expected to visit this office at least twice a week. Though this post is based primarily in Gloucester, there will be occasional travel to other areas for training, conferences, or external meetings.
Main duties of the job
To support the delivery of community OPD by delivering; case triage and identification, case reviews, case consultations, developing formulation, designing and delivering training, providing advice and consultation to other professionals, and contributing to the research within the team. The post will also involve direct work with service users who are now residing in the community and would involve providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions.
In addition, the post holder will be required to regularly assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, delivery orders, collection of statistics and development of audit and/or research projects.
The post holder would be expected to work independently according to a plan agreed with the professionally registered clinical and operational lead for the area/service and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
For professionally unregistered staff all work is done under the supervision of professionally registered clinicians. Clinical supervision and line management are in play to support all clinical staff.
Working for our organisation
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
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
Please see the Job Description, Personal Specification, and Key Local Information attached.
If you have any questions reading this post or the service, please do contact us via the contact details provided below.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Person specification
Essential Qualfications and Experience
Essential criteria
- An honors degree in Psychology (2:1 or 1st)
- Eligibility for graduate membership of the BPS
- Experience of person-facing work, either paid or voluntary.
- Understanding of common mental health problems
Desirable criteria
- Introductory training in a psychological therapy
Skills & experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work collaboratively with other staff
- Self-awareness and emotional resilience
- Word processing and other IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a health or care role.
- Audit or research experience.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the locality
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Cottle
- Job title
- Social Worker
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Emily Hill
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