The role of a clinical associate psychologist is already well established and supported in the team, offering interventions for service users who are experiencing complex mental health difficulties, and who may otherwise need to be in hospital.
The Clinical Associate Psychologist will be able to practice autonomously with appropriate support, working within their scope of practice, under the supervision of a registered clinical psychologist and within the Intensive Team MDT.
The Intensive Team operates 08:00-22:00 7 days a week - therefore shift and weekend working will be required. We offer generous enhanced pay for anti social hours which includes weekends. There is a possibility of long day working if preferred or single shifts. You will also have access to rota requests which we work very hard to facilitate.
Working within the scope and remit of an Intensive Service, delivering care and interventions to service users and families, as an alternative to hospital admission.
Professional liaison and planning care
Working within the MDT
Risk assessment and front line psycho-social assessment skills
This role is semi autonomous working under supervision of a local Clinical Psychologist/ BABCP accredited practitioner responsible for
Psychological assessment and formulation of a specified client group depending on service need and skills/training on practitioner.
Offer defined evidence based psychological interventions to that specific client group,
Working with Service Users with complex mental health problems
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing training and supervision.
To offer psychological interventions alongside the MDT
Shift co-ordination
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.
Clinical Associates in Psychology:
Are accountable professionals delivering psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within their scope of practice.
Use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions.
May work with and communicate with patients in their own home, in the community or hospital, or in any settings where their needs are supported and managed.
May work with individuals and groups with complex and long-term needs.
Act as a psychological resource providing support, guidance and supervision using psychological models to the wider health or social care teams.
Provide training to others to inform psychological interventions
Use psychological measurement tools to evaluate psychological treatments and improve the quality of clinical practice.
Complement the work of Clinical Psychologists
Often deliver treatment interventions developed with a Clinical Psychologist who will review their practice through supervision.
Provide a range of psychological treatments working within their scope of practice, whilst the supervising Clinical Psychologist retains overall clinical responsibility for their work.
Undertake research
Report to a Clinical Psychologist in terms of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
Clinical Associates in Psychology are responsible for:
Planning, delivering and evaluating psychological interventions which may include more long-term and complex presentations.
Working with individuals or groups with long-term and complex needs.
acting as a psychological resource to the wider health or social care teams including residential settings.
Managing their own caseload while undertaking their own clinical programmes of work, within their scope of practice.
Seeing patients in their own homes or in the community.
Performing assessments as well as planning and evaluating their own psychological interventions.
Conducting risk management assessments and evaluations.
their own learning and development using reflection and feedback to analyse their own capabilities.
Ensuring that resources are managed effectively.
Participating in the delivery of audit and service improvement projects.
engaging in their own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain and update their psychological scope of practice.
Meeting their clinical psychology supervisor on a weekly basis in accordance with British Psychological Society (BPS) standards for accredited practice.
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