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Trosolwg o'r swydd

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 people with Weight Management, Paediatric Diabetes and Pulmonary Rehabilitation needs, 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, 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.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The key purpose of this combined post is to deliver specialist clinical/counselling psychology services as part of the Swindon LIFT Clinical Health Psychology Service, including:

- Two sessions (7.5 hours) with the Weight Management service, based at Great Western Hospital.

 - Two sessions (7.5 hours) within the Paediatric Diabetes service, also based at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

- One session (3.75 hours) with the Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PACE) service, based at Chippenham Community Hospital.

There will be opportunities to providing training, mentoring and support to members of these teams, as well as providing specialist clinical input to patients experiencing significant psychological distress.

Along with providing evidence-based individual and group-based psychological interventions, you will also contribute to service audits and evaluations, and be an active part of an experienced and supportive clinical team.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.