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Senior Psychologist (Maternity Cover)

Second Step

Bristol, BS5 0TXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£57,006

Contract

Fixed-Term

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

1 November 2026

13 days left

Job description

Our mission is to promote mental health and wellbeing by supporting people and communities to build brighter futures. The people who use our services ...

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.

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.

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.

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