Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - Bristol

The Asylum Seeker and Refugee Clinic (ARC) is a highly specialised service supporting Refugees and Asylum Seekers aged 0-18, including parents and carers. The service covers Bristol, South Gloucestershire and N. Somerset.

Be Safe Service is a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working with children and young people who have engaged in problematic/harmful sexual behaviour and their parents/carers and system supporting them in Bristol for those aged 4-17 and for those aged 7-11-year-olds in South Gloucestershire.

To support the Be Safe and ARC services in providing including psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions under the supervision of the clinical psychologist.

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., Main duties are to assist services in to provide psychological services including psychological assessment and intervention under the supervision of a qualified clinical/counselling/ forensic psychologist working independently within the limits agreed.

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.