Band 7 Adult Psychotherapist - Bristol

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Adult Psychotherapist to join the Complex Psychological Interventions Service.
The service works closely with the community based-teams providing treatment, consultations, supervision, case-based discussions and case management.
The ideal candidate will be expected to have extensive experience, and relevant training, in brief and long-term relational psychotherapy, experience of working in the NHS and within mental health services and experience of offering clinical supervision.
The successful candidate will work within the Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) service, a friendly and supportive team, highly valued within local services. The team are comprised of multidisciplinary professions, including Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Art Psychotherapists, Psychotherapists, and Specialist Psychological Therapists.
You will receive excellent support and supervision from more senior CPI members who work within a range of therapeutic specialisms. There are also opportunities to link with psychological therapist colleagues and participate in regular case presentations and peer learning and development through the CPI.
The CPI have links to local training institutions and Universities, bringing opportunities for teaching, mentoring, research and development of staff through ongoing professional training, both internally and externally., 1. The post holder will provide assessment and treatment of adults of working age and older adults based on relational psychotherapeutic principles and techniques.
2. The post holder will be expected to provide psychotherapeutic input into the multidisciplinary South Recovery and Assessment team and to offer consultation, supervision and teaching to professional colleagues to the applicant's level of experience.
3. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the broad range of clinical work undertaken by the team. In addition they will have the opportunity and encouragement to develop specialist skills in a particular area, in line with priorities agreed with the team. The post holder would be expected to have an interest in brief psychotherapeutic interventions as well as longer term work. This work may take place across a variety of settings.
4. The post holder will be expected to offer clinical supervision (individual and group) to other professionals (e.g. Recovery team staff) and if required, depending on need, to other staff too (e.g. psychotherapists, CPI staff and resident psychiatrists)., 1. To offer highly specialist assessments and consultations to patients with complex mental health difficulties.
2. To provide relational psychotherapy to individual patients and groups (if the post holder has relevant training in group psychotherapy).
3. To provide a detailed formulation of the service users' difficulties following each assessment / consultation and a written summary of the assessment with suggested recommendations.
4. To liaise with Recovery teams, provide consultancy and identify appropriate care pathways for patients with complex needs within secondary services.
5. To work jointly with multidisciplinary colleagues within secondary services offering consultations, case management and case-based discussion and providing expert advice.
6. To implement effective two-way communications to ensure that the Service areas are responsive to the needs of patients/service users and external pressures.
7. To participate in joint assessments with Recovery staff to support staff in planning care pathways for individuals and to support skill development.
8. To participate in the locality CPI referral meetings.
9. To participate in clinical supervision and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the CPI service.
10. If required, to provide clinical supervision and contribute in that way to the mandatory training of resident psychiatrists in the Severn Postgraduate Medical Education footprint, therapists working under clinical license, CPI staff and staff working in the Recovery team.
People leadership
1. Promote equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment, ensuring that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
2. Show appreciation to your team when they do good work and support them when they are struggling.
3. Seek support from the management and HR Team to tackle any worries regarding matters of discipline, including both conduct and capability concerns, supporting a 'just and restorative culture'.
4. Act as a positive role model at all times, encouraging people to feel equal members of the team whilst working within clear frameworks and policies.
Performance and information management
1. Ensure that you understand all of the agreed key performance indicators for your service, particularly relating to outcomes and essential standards to be met.
2. Ensure that you understand data quality standards and that all the necessary records for your service are maintained and reported.
Service development and planning
1. To work with Managers on service priorities and potential developments in the provision of relational / psychodynamic psychotherapy in line with AWP strategies.
2. To work collaboratively with the consultant Medical psychotherapist of the team in managing service demands and capacity.
3. Actively seek opportunities for improvement for the services, which you and your team provide by identifying research evidence and best practice elsewhere, interpreting/translating and facilitating adaptation for AWP.
4. Support the use of quality improvement (QI) techniques in service improvement, by negotiating shared solutions, facilitating the resolution of complex or contentious issues and managing any conflict into constructive outcomes.
5. Ensure effective risk identification, analysis, mitigation and management within your services.
Governance and policy
1. Ensure that you understand all of the key governance requirements, policies and standards for your services.
2. Support the development of policies relevant to your services.
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Working for our organisation
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.