Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Practitioner Psychologist to Inpatient Mental Health Services for Older People.Due to ongoing opportunities within the specialty there could be opportunities to combine this post with a post in community mental health services and/or working across, offering great opportunities for professional development.
This is an exciting time to join Mental Health Services for Older People in Cardiff & Vale University Health Board. The service is developing new multi-disciplinary models of working. There is a wealth of support (both formal and informal). There is access to an array of CPD opportunities in high intensity psychological therapies, and expertise available. Cardiff and Vale UHB are involved in a pilot delivering training to clinical staff in the latest evidence-based principles and best practice in suicide awareness and suicide mitigation, designed for real impact in delivering collaborative, client centred practice. Supervision can be provided across a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, ACT and DBT informed approaches, CAT and systemic approaches).
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a well-established and highly motivated Older Adult Psychology Speciality, working closely with other Practitioner Psychologists, Counsellors, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Trainee Clinical Associates in Applied Psychology and Specialist Practitioners. The Older Adult speciality provides services into a number of physical and mental health settings, including Stroke services, Young Onset Dementia Services, Mental Health Services for Older People, Dementia services and a memory team, Liaison Services and Medical Rehabilitation. The role will provide you with wide ranging experiences, supporting and enabling your professional development across a range of mental health settings.
The Speciality is part of a large and progressive Health Board Wide Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies. We encourage and support Continued Professional Development and offer excellent opportunities for professional development, consultation and supervision. We actively encourage post qualification training in highly specialist psychological therapeutic interventions.
Full clinical and management professional support and supervision will be available from within the specialty and we support and encourage research and audit opportunities
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Cardiff and Vale University Health Boardis one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is"Caring for People, Keeping People Well",and ourvision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiffand the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
We are in the position to recruit Psychologists who already have the competence and experience relevant to an 8a position, or Psychologistswho meet the qualification, training and competence for a band 7 post. In the case of the latter, we are able to offer a professional knowledge and skills-based development programme that will provide you with the opportunity to acquire the appropriate skills and competencies to enable your progression into the 8a role within an appropriate timescale.
Newly qualified practitioner psychologists who will be qualifying and achieving HCPC status on qualification in 2022 are also invited to apply for the post. Successful applicants will remain on a band 6 banding until confirmation that they have met the requirements for Doctorate status and HCPC registration is received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
We are in the position to recruit Psychologists who already have the competence and experience relevant to an 8a position, or Psychologistswho meet the qualification, training and competence for a band 7 post. In the case of the latter, we are able to offer a professional knowledge and skills-based development programme that will provide you with the opportunity to acquire the appropriate skills and competencies to enable your progression into the 8a role within an appropriate timescale.
Newly qualified practitioner psychologists who will be qualifying and achieving HCPC status on qualification in 2022 are also invited to apply for the post. Successful applicants will remain on a band 6 banding until confirmation that they have met the requirements for Doctorate status and HCPC registration is received.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Health related professional qualification and membership of governing body
- Educated to Master's degree in Health-related subject or able to demonstrate an ability and willingness to work to masters level
Desirable
- Formal training in supervision or reflective practice
- Prior therapy qualification or CPD certificate
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with adults in later life with functional and/or organic mental health difficulties and risks
- Prior experience of delivering formulation led, psychologically informed interventions
- Prior experience in assessing and managing risk.
- Experience in providing supervision / consultation to other clinicians. Experience of effective multi-agency working
- Prior experience of delivering training to others.
- Experience of successful change management and dealing with conflict
- Experience of participating in the planning and development of services
Desirable
- Experience of working with families, drawing on a systemic knowledge and practice base
- Experienced in speaking & lecturing in public & professional forums
Skills
Essential
- High level communication and interpersonal skills to convey and receive complex, highly technical, sensitive information effectively at both a written and oral level.
- Ability to engage others in collaborative change processes
- High level of presentation and report writing skills for clinical and academic content in a range of contexts
- Ability to make clinical and service-related judgements involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development
- Ability to plan, formulate, organise and implement a broad range of complex clinical and service-related operational activities, programmes and plans
Desirable
- Experience in presenting papers in local and regional professional forums
- Ability to speak Welsh/other non-English languages and a willingness to use this skill in the work context.
- Knowledge of research design, methodology and analysis
special Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist skills in working with complex mental health problems
- Skilled and experienced in providing clinical supervision to a range of clinicians
- Computer literate & good keyboard skills
- Ability to independently navigate patient clinical records to pull out key information to support the development of a formulation
Desirable
- Meets all desirable criteria
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strategic thinker
- Professional attitude
- Able to lead complex communication processes where there are opposing views and significant barriers to acceptance and understanding.
- Able to focus and concentrate on complex issues on a daily basis and deliver high quality outcomes
- Able to work consistently and therapeutically with frequent exposure to highly emotional, distressing and sensitive clinical circumstances
- Practices equal opportunities and respect for others
Desirable
- Meets all desirable criteria
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Health related professional qualification and membership of governing body
- Educated to Master's degree in Health-related subject or able to demonstrate an ability and willingness to work to masters level
Desirable
- Formal training in supervision or reflective practice
- Prior therapy qualification or CPD certificate
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with adults in later life with functional and/or organic mental health difficulties and risks
- Prior experience of delivering formulation led, psychologically informed interventions
- Prior experience in assessing and managing risk.
- Experience in providing supervision / consultation to other clinicians. Experience of effective multi-agency working
- Prior experience of delivering training to others.
- Experience of successful change management and dealing with conflict
- Experience of participating in the planning and development of services
Desirable
- Experience of working with families, drawing on a systemic knowledge and practice base
- Experienced in speaking & lecturing in public & professional forums
Skills
Essential
- High level communication and interpersonal skills to convey and receive complex, highly technical, sensitive information effectively at both a written and oral level.
- Ability to engage others in collaborative change processes
- High level of presentation and report writing skills for clinical and academic content in a range of contexts
- Ability to make clinical and service-related judgements involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development
- Ability to plan, formulate, organise and implement a broad range of complex clinical and service-related operational activities, programmes and plans
Desirable
- Experience in presenting papers in local and regional professional forums
- Ability to speak Welsh/other non-English languages and a willingness to use this skill in the work context.
- Knowledge of research design, methodology and analysis
special Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist skills in working with complex mental health problems
- Skilled and experienced in providing clinical supervision to a range of clinicians
- Computer literate & good keyboard skills
- Ability to independently navigate patient clinical records to pull out key information to support the development of a formulation
Desirable
- Meets all desirable criteria
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strategic thinker
- Professional attitude
- Able to lead complex communication processes where there are opposing views and significant barriers to acceptance and understanding.
- Able to focus and concentrate on complex issues on a daily basis and deliver high quality outcomes
- Able to work consistently and therapeutically with frequent exposure to highly emotional, distressing and sensitive clinical circumstances
- Practices equal opportunities and respect for others
Desirable
- Meets all desirable criteria
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
