Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Bristol

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a compassionate and motivated senior clinical or counselling psychologist to join the BNSSG Wide CEN Service. We warmly welcome applications from people who can bring diversity to our team with regard to ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and disability.

The BNSSG Wide Complex Emotional Needs Service offers consultation, supervision, training and specialist evidence based interventions across the BNSSG area for service users with difficulties associated with complex emotional needs (also known as personality disorder). The team is made up of a both registered HCP's, clinical associate psychologists and staff with lived experience of complex emotional needs. The team draws on strong local partnerships with recovery services and co-delivers a range of evidence based interventions across the system including SCM, DBT and MBT.

The team operates with an emphasis on compassion, hope, robust support for staff and continual improvement of services, with co-production at the heart of what we do.

Main duties of the job

This post covers Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) and will form part of the leadership structure alongside the team with the clinical lead, service manager and senior lived experience practitioner. Your main base will be within Bristol with opportunities for flexible remote work.

This varied and challenging post will involve being clinical supervisor for the team's qualified clinical associate psychologists (CAPs) and supporting and assessing the knowledge and skills of future CAP apprentices within the team.

It also involves offering group reflective practice, training and clinical supervision to AWP staff. The post holder will be able to hold a clinical caseload within Bristol Complex Psychological Interventions Service to add variety to the work and maintain professional connections.

Complex Psychological Interventions Service:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to link directly with the CPI. The CPI are a friendly and supportive team, who are highly valued within local services. They offer a range of activities to support psychologically informed care within the secondary mental health service and are comprised of multidisciplinary professions, including Clinical Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Medical Psychotherapists and Specialist Nurses. You will receive excellent support and supervision from more senior and well-established CPI members.

About us

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 provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, 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.

Details

Date posted

19 June 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-BR092-0626

Job locations

Callington Road Hospital

Marmalade Lane

Bristol

BS4 5BJ

United Kingdom