Band 7 Later Clinical Psychologist - Bristol; South Glos

South Gloucestershire Later Life Locality provides equitable, compassionate and evidence-based psychological services for older people, people with dementia, and the families, carers and communities who support them.

We are seeking a Clinical Psychologist with a passion for later-life mental health to deliver specialist assessment and intervention, and to help expand access to psychological care in line with the Community Mental Health Framework and the Long Term Plan for Ageing Well.

This varied and rewarding role offers opportunities across our Later Life Community Services. The postholder will primarily work within the Specialist Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Support Team and Memory Service, with additional opportunities for therapeutic work in the Complex Interventions Team.

You will collaborate with multi-professional colleagues to develop shared formulations and support psychologically informed care for older people experiencing mental health difficulties and/or neurodegenerative conditions.

As part of the South Gloucestershire Psychological Therapies Service, you will join a well-established team of psychologists and psychological therapists, with access to supervision, peer support and CPD across models including CBT, MBT, EMDR, Family Therapy, Psychodynamic approaches and Neuropsychology. We actively support further training aligned to specialist interests and service needs.

This is a part-time role (22.5 hours per week), with availability required on Tuesdays.

• Contribute to the development and delivery of equitable, evidence-based psychological therapies within Later Life services.
• Plan, develop and deliver individual and group interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees and assistant psychologists.
• Offer consultation, teaching and training to multidisciplinary colleagues across services.
• Use (or develop) expertise in neuropsychological assessment and intervention.
• Participate in service evaluation, audit and research to support ongoing improvement and innovation.

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.

The main responsibilities for the advertised post are described above and expanded upon in the attached job description.

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or soon to be awarded this)
• HCPC registered (or eligible for registration)
• Experience and interest in working with older people
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams in secondary care settings
• Interest/experience in carrying out neuropsychological assessments and rehabilitation interventions
• Interest/experience of delivering psychological therapies for older people
• Experience of carrying out audits, evaluations and research

• Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues
• Use of evidence based therapeutic interventions
• Provision of clinical supervision/consultation to other professionals

• Effective team player with good communication with liaison skill.
• Well organised with good administration
• skills.
• Empathy/engagement skills with the client
• group.
• Ability to cope with workload pressure/prioritise workload.
• Ability to work independently.
• Self-awareness and emotional resilience.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.