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Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Older Adults)

AFC Band 7 (preceptorship) / 8a - (0.8 WTE) - Permanent

Are you an enthusiastic, energetic and experienced Clinical / Counselling Psychologist committed to delivering equitable psychological care to service users, families and carers within later life services? Do you have an area of interest you’d like the support to develop, and the autonomy to develop it? Would you enjoy working within the beautiful county of Wiltshire?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 (preceptorship) / 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to provide an essential role into our community mental health team in North and East Wiltshire (NEW) and support the wider Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. The role is primarily based in Chippenham and Devizes, but provides clinical services to the older adult population throughout Wiltshire.

We are an enthusiastic and innovative team which values the input and contribution of all our staff, and strives to offer the best services possible to our service users. As the provision of supervision, consultation and training to other colleagues within the service is both highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage. We would particularly value experience and/or training in neuropsychology and a range of therapeutic models.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated to provide an excellent evidenced-based psychological service within a changing environment. They will have experience of working with individuals in later life with complex and enduring psychological difficulties and cognitive impairment, and they will have a proven commitment to the development of later life services.

Working as both part of the Wiltshire PTS and the CMHT offers psychologists the chance to treat a range of disorders and presenting difficulties. This means that you can maintain your skills across a diverse client group, or further develop a specialist interest, such as neuropsychology.

As the provision of supervision, consultation and training to other colleagues within the service is both highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage. We would particularly value experience and/or training in CBT, DBT, MBT, CAT or ACT and group
based working.

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.