Senior Psychologist (Maternity Cover) at Second Step in Bristol
About the role
Job summary
Our mission is to promote mental health and wellbeing by supporting people and communities to build brighter futures. The people who use our services are at the heart of our organisation, and our involvement groups help inform and improve the services we deliver.
We are passionate about creating psychological, adversity and trauma informed environments. We value relationships and making sense of what has happened to those coming into contact with our services, rather than thinking about what is wrong with them.
We advocate for system change that facilitates working with socially contextualised presentations of distress.
Main duties of the job This is a unique opportunity to step in to provide maternity cover for our senior psychologist who is responsible for leading our trailblazing and successful PAT pioneer facilitators programme which upskills staff to provide group reflective practice spaces across the organisation.
In addition, you will be responsible for providing psychological input to an allocated set of services (dependent on skillset) and supporting delivery of our psychological, adversity and trauma (PAT) informed strategy. Your expertise will shape a culture of learning and build resilience of staff across our services.
About us
Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South-West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and other needs. We promote wellbeing by supporting people and communities to build brighter futures.
We value relationships and making sense of what has happened to those accessing our services, rather than labelling what is wrong with them.
Job description
Job
responsibilities
The confidence and ability to work across a designated set of services and develop strong relationships that motivate staff buy in attending PAT informed reflective contexts.
Support staff to develop PAT informed understandings of service users with histories of trauma and presentations associated with multiple and complex needs and personality disorders (drawing upon various frameworks in particular: attachment and trauma informed theories and other frameworks as required including: CBT, CAT, Solution-Focused, Restorative Approaches and Strengths-Based practice).
Provide regular supervision to our newly trained PAT Pioneer Facilitators who will be holding reflective spaces to staff across the organisation in various roles and require regular supervision to embed learning and support development and quality practice.
Offer supervision to band 7 psychologists and trainee psychologist placements as and when appropriate. Be involved in the continual evaluation and development of these reflective contexts.
Person Specification
Experience Essential Experience and interest in group facilitation and offering reflective contexts e.g. reflective practice (key part of role). Experience of developing and delivering training to various audiences.
Experience of influencing the networks of support around individuals and creating system change Considerable experience and interest in working with people with histories of trauma and multiple disadvantage including a range of adult mental health presentations and/or substance misuse, forensic histories and homelessness.
Significant experience offering supervision.
Experience of evaluation and audit Desirable Experience of the voluntary sector and/or working across multiple services/teams simultaneously Experience in working in NHS settings with fluctuating and complex risk presentations Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.