Band 5 Apprentice Clinical Associate Psychologist - Op Courage

We are delighted to invite applications for an Apprentice Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP) to join the South West Op COURAGE Veterans Mental Health & Wellbeing Service. This is an exciting opportunity to train within a nationally recognised specialist service supporting former Armed Forces personnel and their families. You will be enrolled on the Clinical Associate Psychologist Master's programme at the University of Bath, combining academic study with supervised clinical practice. The 18 month course, funded by Health Education England, commences in September 2026. On successful completion of the CAP Apprenticeship you will become a band 6 CAP. This role will require working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, drawing on your training to provide valuable psychosocial support.The role will be based in Wiltshire (at an appropriate AWP base, providing in-person input at Salisbury and surrounding areas, as well as remote input across the region.,

• Complement the work of Clinical Psychologist, providing comprehensive assessments with the veterans.
• Delivering evidence-based psychosocial interventions, both individually and in groups, in line with the CAP and internal service training.
• Contribute to the MDT by attending regular online meetings.
• Attend regular face to face zone and whole-team meetings.
• Engage in opportunities to support audit and research activities.
• Maintain record keeping in line with the service requirements
• Adhere to AWP Lone Working policy and the Op Courage Lone Working Local Operating Policy.
• Adhere to and fulfil all University course commitments and requirements
• Engage in regular Clinical and line management supervision to support your development and ensure the high quality of care delivered to the veterans
  
  To be eligible to apply you must have at least a 2:2 honours degree in psychology from a British Psychological Society accredited course and should be eligible for the BPS Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) and you will need to have, or have applied for, Graduate Membership. In addition, you will need to evidence significant experience of working in a person-facing role with people experiencing serious mental health difficulties, such as PTSD, or other relevant clinical presentation in an NHS or voluntary sector setting.
  
  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