Job overview
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 full-time post is 3 days per week with South Wiltshire Intensive Service and 2 days per week at Ashdown inpatient unit, a 6-bedded male psychiatric intensive care unit. We support service users in their recovery from acute mental health challenges through multidisciplinary professional teamwork and the adoption of evidence-based clinical practice. You will be joining established multidisciplinary teams, where the role of the psychologist is much valued. The successful applicant will be a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with clearly demonstrable skills, experience, and knowledge of working in a fast-moving, often challenging multi-disciplinary environment. You will be comfortable and confident working with a high level of involvement with a broad staff team and with a client group with high levels of complexity, risk, and need. The acute care psychology team is part of the Wiltshire Psychological Therapy Service. We are an enthusiastic and innovative team that values the input and contribution of all team members and strives to offer the best services possible to our clients. The importance of support and supervision for psychology staff is well recognized; there are many opportunities for support, joint working, and supervision. Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide a comprehensive psychology service to both teams, including specialist assessment, evidence-based formulation, individual and group brief interventions. There is also a strong focus on indirect work with staff teams, through team formulation, reflective practice, training, and provision of supervision. You will need to be well organized with the ability to prioritize your work according to clinical need and liaise effectively with team colleagues and professionals in other teams/services. Supervision of junior psychologists. Manage and supervise the assistant psychologist. There is the opportunity to help shape and develop the service dependent on skills and experience. For the full job description and person specification, please see attached documents.
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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 full-time post is 3 days per week with South Wiltshire Intensive Service and 2 days per week at Ashdown inpatient unit, a 6-bedded male psychiatric intensive care unit. We support service users in their recovery from acute mental health challenges through multidisciplinary professional teamwork and the adoption of evidence-based clinical practice. You will be joining established multidisciplinary teams, where the role of the psychologist is much valued. The successful applicant will be a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with clearly demonstrable skills, experience, and knowledge of working in a fast-moving, often challenging multi-disciplinary environment. You will be comfortable and confident working with a high level of involvement with a broad staff team and with a client group with high levels of complexity, risk, and need. The acute care psychology team is part of the Wiltshire Psychological Therapy Service. We are an enthusiastic and innovative team that values the input and contribution of all team members and strives to offer the best services possible to our clients. The importance of support and supervision for psychology staff is well recognized; there are many opportunities for support, joint working, and supervision. Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide a comprehensive psychology service to both teams, including specialist assessment, evidence-based formulation, individual and group brief interventions. There is also a strong focus on indirect work with staff teams, through team formulation, reflective practice, training, and provision of supervision. You will need to be well organized with the ability to prioritize your work according to clinical need and liaise effectively with team colleagues and professionals in other teams/services. Supervision of junior psychologists. Manage and supervise the assistant psychologist. There is the opportunity to help shape and develop the service dependent on skills and experience. For the full job description and person specification, please see attached documents.
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