Band 8a Clinical Psychologist, CAMHS

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about providing values led, person centred evidence-based processes of change/intervention programmes for children and young people with autism diagnoses, and their families, who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and residential admission. Autism Intensive Service uses the Process Based Therapy (PBT), Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) and Extended Evolutionary Meta Model (EEMM) frameworks to inform and support genuinely person-centred programmes for CYP and their families.

The post covers the BNSSG area.

The post holder will provide specialist assessment, formulation and intervention programmes for CYP and their families/carers.

• Provide staff training, supervision, consultation and advice to colleagues in AWP teams and other agencies (e.g., social care, education).
• Deliver supervision and training; experience of delivering supervision and training would be essential.
• Educate and support multidisciplinary teams to develop psychological thinking and intervention within their practice.

• Excellent interpersonal skills are required to support the development of psychological thinking and intervention within multidisciplinary teams.
• Data analysis and research skills are highly desirable.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, a diverse organisation with over 4500 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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Freddy Jackson Brown

Job title:

Service Lead
Email:
Telephone:

Freddy Jackson Brown - Clinical Psychologist / Service Lead

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