Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - Bristol

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high-quality care? Do you understand the clinical needs of people with learning disabilities and autistic people who are experiencing mental health difficulties? If you are prepared to deliver evidence-based change to implement clinical service delivery, this role offers a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation., To support the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention within the inpatient service. This will include a focus on supporting and implementing the delivery of trauma-informed Positive Behaviour Support, and collaborative working with other members of the service such as our Peer Support Practitioners. To contribute to relevant workstreams including EDI, quality improvement and research. To support the facilitation of continuing professional development events and training, as appropriate to the role. To support the delivery of the Psychological Therapies service as a whole.

You will be joining a passionate and supportive team, with extensive opportunities for supervision, support, and professional development.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

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.