Band 8a Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Salisbury

Apply for the Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Salisbury role at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
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Are you passionate about working alongside individuals experiencing a range of acute mental health difficulties, or in crisis? This newly created post offers the exciting opportunity to work across the acute care pathway in Salisbury. This split post involves two days per week with South Wiltshire Intensive Service and two days per week at Ashdown Inpatient Unit, a 6‑beded male psychiatric intensive care unit.

• Provide a comprehensive psychology service to both teams, including specialist assessment, evidence‑based formulation, individual and group brief interventions.
• Focus on indirect work with staff teams through team formulation, reflective practice, training and provision of supervision.
• Prioritise workload according to clinical need and liaise effectively with team colleagues and professionals in other teams/services.
• Supervise junior psychologists and manage the assistant psychologist.
• Help shape and develop the service, depending on skills and experience.

Full job description and person specification: please see attached documents.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Management and Manufacturing
• Hospitals and Health 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.

Name:
Dr Marisol Cavieres

Job title:

Head of Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service
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