Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - Salisbury, Wiltshire

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Are you interested in pursuing a career in Clinical Psychology? The two posts offer exciting opportunities to develop the experience and skills you
need to get on to Clinical Psychology training.
You will be working alongside the Clinical Psychologist on one of two acute inpatient units and supported to engage in psychological assessments, develop formulations, and provide individual and group interventions to adults of working age. You will also have the opportunity to support the psychologist with aspects of service evaluation, research and audit projects.
Within the Wiltshire acute care psychology service we have a supportive team who meet on a regular basis. We are part of a wider Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service (WPTS), a friendly and team who meet on a monthly basis.
Under close supervision you will be supported to develop psychological formulations and provide therapeutic interventions to people experiencing
mental health crises. You will be part of a broader multidisciplinary team contributing to recovery oriented care plans. You will also be facilitating
therapeutic groups and 1:1 interventions. You will receive weekly supervision and training in relevant psychological approaches.
Under the direction and guidance of the inpatient psychologist you will communicate psychological approaches, develop interventions, tools and
resources for the staff team, service users, their families and carers.
Collect and collate information to support the clinical psychologist in service audit and evaluation projects.
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.
Supervised to develop evidence based psychological formulations which inform interventions.
Supervised implementation of appropriate psychometric and functional assessments.
Delivery of low intensity psychological interventions (group and 1:1).
Liaison with the qualified psychologist.
Liaison with the broader multidisciplinary team.
Promoting a therapeutic environment within the ward.
Collecting information and conducting literature searches to assist with service evaluation/ audit and research projects

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