Band 8b Clinical Psychologist

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

To lead an autonomous and systematic, specialist area of responsibility within the Clinical Psychology service for people with severe and complex mental health difficulties.
To offer an entirely autonomous highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and treatment service to inpatient and those in the community. To provide specialist consultancy, advice and clinical supervision to qualified clinical psychology staff and staff from other professions.
To provide an advanced and specialist treatment role in the Area in one NICE recommended intervention.
T o undertake management/ leadership tasks as delegated by the manager including caseload, supervision, appraisals and service development.
To undertake relevant research, teaching and lecturing in specialist clinical areas.
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.

5. TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

To supervise Clinical/Counselling Psychology trainees and qualified psychologists/ psychological therapists.
To offer training in Psychological approaches to healthcare to other staff in the multidisciplinary team and to staff from other parts of the service.
To provide expert lectures, seminars and workshops as necessary locally and across the LDU/Division and Trust.
To lecture on the Doctoral Clinical / Counselling Psychology training courses.
To agree a plan for personal development with the psychology line manager and participate in annual review.
Provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership for your team by setting clear vision and direction.
Develop a culture and environment in which members of staff are encouraged and supported to deliver high- quality services and are supported to innovate and improve services where appropriate.
Encourage your team to feel able to raise concerns openly and safely.
Promote equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment, ensuring that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour nationality ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
Support prompt recruitment by identifying vacancies to the AWP Recruitment Team as soon as they arise, and participate in the selection and effective induction and on-boarding of new joiners to the team.
Ensure that all team members have a very positive introduction to the team and a well-supported first year.
Take responsibility for encouraging people to stay with AWP, ensuring that you are aware whenever a member of your team is considering leaving, seeking to understand their reasons and encouraging them to stay.
Ensure that key messages are cascaded in your team and that your team are encouraged to put forward suggestions.
Show appreciation to your team when they do good work and support them when they are struggling.
Consider the individual needs of team members for a healthy work-life balance and think about how their needs can be supported by providing flexible ways of working.
Support all team members to keep their mandatory and statutory training up-to-date and identify the learning and development needs of all team members of the team ensuring that everyone has an up-to-date personal development plan (PDP).
Ensure that every team member as at least an hour of supervision (one-to-one meeting) each month, this may include both managerial and clinical supervision.
Ensure all team members receive a constructive assessment of their performance each year and set SMART objectives for the coming year.
Seek support from the HR Team to tackle any worries regarding matters of discipline, including both conduct and capability concerns, supporting a ‘just and restorative culture’. Take prompt action regarding serious concerns and ensure clear plans are in place for problems which are less serious in nature but prove difficult to resolve.
Act as a positive role model at all times, encouraging people to feel equal members of the team whilst working within clear frameworks and policies.
Promote effective use of bank and agency nursing staff, providing a safe and effective service, complying with regulatory standards.

Managing the competing demands of this role
Supporting staff during a time of change in mental health services