Band 7 / 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Chippenham

Are you an enthusiastic, energetic and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist committed to delivering equitable psychological care to service users, families and carers within later life services? Do you have an area of interest you'd like the support to develop, and the autonomy to develop it? Would you enjoy working within the beautiful county of Wiltshire?, The successful applicant will be enthusiastic and highly motivated to provide an excellent evidenced-based psychological service within a changing environment. They will have experience of working with individuals in later life with complex and enduring psychological difficulties, and cognitive impairment, and they will have a proven commitment to the development of later life services. Older adult work is known for being varied and benefitting from a holistic approach, and would be keen to support candidates who are interested in working integratively.

Working as part of the Wiltshire PTS (Psychological Therapies Service) and CMHT offers the opportunity to work with a range of presenting difficulties. This means that you can maintain your skills across a diverse client group, and further develop specialist interests, such as neuropsychology or complex emotional need.

We are an enthusiastic and innovative team which values the input andcontribution of all our staff, and strives to offer the best services possible to our service users. As the provision of supervision, consultation and training to other colleagues within the service is both highly valued and an essential part of the role, being able to demonstrate skill and experience in this area would be an advantage.

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.