Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist with significant experience of MDT working and of providing a full range of psychological services to persons/families with complex or enduring psychological distress. The post would be well suited to someone who enjoys working in a high-paced and dynamic environment. Psychological skills and expertise are highly valued. There are opportunities for direct work with individuals, families and systems, as well as supervision, consultancy, service improvement, team formulation and skills teaching/training. Research and your own Continued Professional Development is highly valued and supported
You will become a member of a large, supportive psychological specialty in addition to the Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies. There is extensive opportunity and support to work alongside a number of psychologists and psychologically informed practitioners, including Practitioner Psychologists, Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology (CAAPs), Counsellors, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Specialist Practitioners and others delivering psychological interventions across all levels of the service.
As an experienced 8b psychologist you will play an important role in supporting others by providing consultancy, supervision and line management where appropriate. There will be opportunities to collaborate with other professions to support and drive strategic thinking and service development.
Main duties of the job
This post is an exciting career development opportunity for a permanent Band 8b Practitioner Psychologist providing psychological input into the REACT team within Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP).
The REACT service consists of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team that offers rapid response, high intensity home treatment for people aged over 65 with mental health difficulties and/or dementia who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis or where care at home is at risk of breakdown. As a highly valued part of this team and part of the REACT senior management team, your role includes direct clinical work (assessments and psychological interventions), team formulations, systemic thinking, risk assessments and management, service development, co-production, supporting multi-disciplinary team working, supervision and consultation, audit and research and strategic direction and decision making. There is a steady stream of new and innovative, creative developments. There is an excellent support network within this team and monthly specialty and peer support meetings.
Please see the attached Job Description for more details
About us
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is 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 our vision 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, Cardiff and 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 happy to consider applications from experienced Psychologists from Adult Mental Health, Older Adults Mental Health or other related fields and where the applicant has both relevant experience plus an enthusiasm to work with people in later life.
It could also be possible to combine this role as a part-time alongside another part - time role within MHSOP (e.g providing psychological provision into one of our CMHTs or inpatient service)
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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 happy to consider applications from experienced Psychologists from Adult Mental Health, Older Adults Mental Health or other related fields and where the applicant has both relevant experience plus an enthusiasm to work with people in later life.
It could also be possible to combine this role as a part-time alongside another part - time role within MHSOP (e.g providing psychological provision into one of our CMHTs or inpatient service)
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working with people with gender dysphoria.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers
Qualifications
Essential
- Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS.
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively, requiring empathy and reassurance, in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
- Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
- Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development.
- Ability to implement agreed policies and strategic long-term service developments.
Special Knowledge
Essential
- Formal Training and supervision of other psychologists.
- Ability to identify and provide support to carers and staff.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
Desirable
- Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
Other
Essential
- Requirement to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing and traumatic situations.
- Must be capable of working within organisational policies, and be accountable for own professional actions
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Respect for users of services and their carers
- Willingness to supervise trainee clinical psychologists and other qualified clinical/counselling psychologists working in similar settings
- Willingness to work as part of a team
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal.
- Willingness to participate in continuing professional development & psychologists working in similar team settings.
- Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working with people with gender dysphoria.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers
Qualifications
Essential
- Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS.
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively, requiring empathy and reassurance, in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
- Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
- Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development.
- Ability to implement agreed policies and strategic long-term service developments.
Special Knowledge
Essential
- Formal Training and supervision of other psychologists.
- Ability to identify and provide support to carers and staff.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
Desirable
- Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
Other
Essential
- Requirement to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing and traumatic situations.
- Must be capable of working within organisational policies, and be accountable for own professional actions
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Respect for users of services and their carers
- Willingness to supervise trainee clinical psychologists and other qualified clinical/counselling psychologists working in similar settings
- Willingness to work as part of a team
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal.
- Willingness to participate in continuing professional development & psychologists working in similar team settings.
- Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload.
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).
