Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist-Vinney Green Children’s Home

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

This exciting and challenging role offers a unique opportunity to embed and oversee the implementation of the SECURE STAIRS framework for integrated care within the AWP Health and Wellbeing service for Young People at Vinney Green Secure Children’s Home.
As the Consultant Psychologist and Clinical Lead, you will provide strategic and professional leadership, driving the integration of a developmentally informed and trauma-focused wellbeing service based on the Secure Stairs framework.
Your efforts will not only enhance the care provided but also facilitate significant culture change, fostering closer collaboration among teams both locally and nationally.

By championing the principles of trauma-informed care, you will play a vital role in reshaping the service environment, creating opportunities for improved outcomes for young people in secure settings.

• Lead the health and wellbeing team in delivering high-quality, trauma-informed care tailored to the needs of young people.
• Collaborate with local and national stakeholders, including the National Secure Stairs Clinical Implementation Team, Youth Custody Service, Local Authority and NHS England Commissioners, to ensure fidelity to the model of care and effective service delivery.
• Maintain a national profile and contribute to the Professional Collaborative Network for the children’s secure estate.
• Maintain strong partnerships with external organisations and community services, including FCAMHS and social services, to ensure a coherent and streamlined pathways for young people transitioning in and out of secure settings.
• Facilitate culture change and closer collaboration between teams locally and nationally, enhancing service integration and outcomes for young people.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) which includes a Team Manager, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Nursing, Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapists to meet the holistic needs of the young people.
• Provide supervision and support to team members, fostering a psychologically informed care environment across all staff within the home.

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.
You will receive excellent support and supervision from well-established management and therapies teams. There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.
Issues of diversity, accessibility and equality of access are priorities for any successful applicant.
1. To manage capacity effectively to respond to demand placed upon the service. To act as part of the wider relevant locality management team.
2. To provide leadership and expertise to Psychological Professionals within and beyond the specialalty setting.
3. To take the lead role in the development of the new developments in relation to Psychological Therapies to support the delivery of the ambitions of the Long Term Plan and the Community Mental Health Framework. Including a focus on the delivery of integrated care with existing services and the development of the evidence base in this area via research and evaluation.
4. To assist and facilitate e.g. train managers and clinicians to use the skills available within the staff team and other services to develop, evaluate and deliver a high quality and coordinated service to service users and their significant others, in line with national and local commissioner expectations.
5. To participate in and provide specialist advice to relevant aspects of policy making, strategic planning, management and clinical governance in the locality.
6. To undertake the role of a specialist clinician, carrying a specialist caseload of highly complex cases, providing advice and consultancy for patients and their significant others, and specialist clinical supervision to professionals.
7. To lead and motivate practitioners, trainees and assistants from all professions within the specialty and across the psychological therapies aspects of other relevant services.
8. To undertake highly specialist research and service evaluation both within and outside the Trust, including contributing to the development of the evidence base in the field and evidencing the work of this new team effectively. To organise and supervise the R&D activities of others.
9. To work in partnership with Service Users, their significant others, staff Performance Management and Finance staff, corporate services, human resources, VCSE (voluntary, charity and social enterprise) organisations to co-produce the design, development and delivery of services.
10. To work with senior managers and system partners to explore and pursue business opportunities consistent with the divisional business plan.
11. To work across systems/providers in the locality to ensure effective pathways for Service Users.
12. To work alongside the ICB and ICS across both BNSSG and BSW to have an active role in strategic development, aligned to ICB and ICS outcomes

• Lead the health and wellbeing team in delivering high-quality, trauma-informed care tailored to the needs of young people.
• Collaborate with local and national stakeholders, including the National Secure Stairs Clinical Implementation Team, Youth Custody Service, Local Authority and NHS England Commissioners, to ensure fidelity to the model of care and effective service delivery.
• Maintain a national profile and contribute to the Professional Collaborative Network for the children’s secure estate.
• Maintain strong partnerships with external organisations and community services, including FCAMHS and social services, to ensure a coherent and streamlined pathways for young people transitioning in and out of secure settings.
• Facilitate culture change and closer collaboration between teams locally and nationally, enhancing service integration and outcomes for young people.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) which includes a Team Manager, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Nursing, Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapists to meet the holistic needs of the young people.
• Provide supervision and support to team members, fostering a psychologically informed care environment across all staff within the home