Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling)

Job summary

This role is designed to provide strategic and clinical leadership for the continued development and delivery of ABUHB's adult psychology in secondary care for individuals presenting with moderate to severe levels of psychological distress and associated difficulties in functioning. This will include ensuring engagement of all key stakeholders (including and especially those with lived experience) and ensuring that appropriate governance structures are in place to enable the safe and effective implementation of highly specialist psychological interventions (including assessment and consultation) and waiting list initiatives across ABUHB.

Psychological therapies are embedded within secondary care services and, as such, there is plentiful opportunity to contribute towards the transformation of adult mental health services more broadly. This will require the capacity to understand complex systems and effective means of implementing and monitoring strategic change.

Main duties of the job

To provide expert leadership and strategy guidance for the development and implementation of psychological interventions in secondary care across ABUHB.

To be responsible for developing monitoring systems to track referrals, attendance rates, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction and monitoring of any possible iatrogenic harm.

To ensure that all interventions are evidence informed and consistent with latest research and practice as outlined in the Evidence Tables of Matrics Cymru.

To be responsible for providing the strategic leadership necessary to ensure continued development towards Welsh Government targets for waiting times for Psychological Therapies.

To advise the Head of Adult Psychology, the Waiting List Programme Board, MH&LD Senior Management Team and Corporate Performance as required upon matters relating to the waiting time performance across ABHB.

To develop and maintain an infrastructure and systems in order to capture key metrics required for national reporting in accordance with the national service specification.

To create a culture which empowers clinicians to pursue professional development and provide high quality practice across the service.

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.

The adult specialty is a warm and welcoming group of psychological professionals committed to ensuring that we deliver high quality and person-centred care. There are a multitude of opportunities to connect professionally and to continue to develop both clinically and as a leader.