Job summary
We are excited to invite applications for a Consultant Practitioner Psychologist to join our wonderful team comprising Psychologists, Arts Therapists and administrators, providing psychological interventions to Older Adults across Gwent.
You will be joining a warm, supportive and skilled team of colleagues who are passionate about providing the best service possible to older adults, through psychological and arts therapies interventions, neuropsychological assessment and wider service supports.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
In this role, you would be leading our colleagues that provide psychological input into the community part of our service, our CMHT and MAS teams across the five boroughs of Gwent.
You will be a compassionate leader, ensuring the wellbeing of our colleagues. You will be focused on developing our services to ensure the highest standards and quality are delivered across all aspects of our work. You will bring inspiration, commitment, passion, and a flexible and reflective mindset.
The role involves managing and supervising colleagues within the team, enabling them to achieve their best work. Alongside this, you will ensure strong clinical governance.
We will support you fully in your role to achieve this, through the Head of Service and senior leadership team.
You will also have access to a wide resource of psychologists and psychological practitioners across our wider Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division, and training and supervision opportunities that exist in the wider Health Board. We endeavour to help and support each other as much as possible, and the expertise across this network is outstanding!
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will lead the team in providing psychological input to the community aspects of our service, ensuring appropriate and skilled neuropsychological assessments to understand potential cognitive decline, and therapeutic interventions for a range of presenting difficulties, including, but not limited to, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and physical health difficulties.
You will also hold your own caseload, and contribute widely to service development, teaching and training, audit and research, as well as supervision and management across this aspect of our services.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will lead the team in providing psychological input to the community aspects of our service, ensuring appropriate and skilled neuropsychological assessments to understand potential cognitive decline, and therapeutic interventions for a range of presenting difficulties, including, but not limited to, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and physical health difficulties.
You will also hold your own caseload, and contribute widely to service development, teaching and training, audit and research, as well as supervision and management across this aspect of our services.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Appropriate Undergraduate and Doctoral Qualifications in Clinical Psychology or Equivalent
- HCPC Registration
Desirable
- Further relevant training in a formal psychological therapy
- Additional further academic or research qualifications
- Leadership / Management Training
Essential
Essential
- Significant post qualification clinical experience working with Older Adults
- Evidence of regular ongoing CPD
- Advanced expertise in an specific and relevant area of clinical practice
- Neuropsychological Assessment Experience
Desirable
- Management and Leadership experience
- Strategic planning and service improvement experience
- Experience in training and supervising of other psychologists
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Advanced skill in working with Older Adults specific needs
- Ability to formulate and intervene when there is complexity and multiple courses of action
- Communicates with warmth and empathy
- Able to provide leadership and direction for the service
- Ability to cope with high levels of stress and difficult and emotional situations
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Appropriate Undergraduate and Doctoral Qualifications in Clinical Psychology or Equivalent
- HCPC Registration
Desirable
- Further relevant training in a formal psychological therapy
- Additional further academic or research qualifications
- Leadership / Management Training
Essential
Essential
- Significant post qualification clinical experience working with Older Adults
- Evidence of regular ongoing CPD
- Advanced expertise in an specific and relevant area of clinical practice
- Neuropsychological Assessment Experience
Desirable
- Management and Leadership experience
- Strategic planning and service improvement experience
- Experience in training and supervising of other psychologists
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Advanced skill in working with Older Adults specific needs
- Ability to formulate and intervene when there is complexity and multiple courses of action
- Communicates with warmth and empathy
- Able to provide leadership and direction for the service
- Ability to cope with high levels of stress and difficult and emotional situations
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).
