Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an inspirational, dynamic and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Consultant Psychologist providing clinical leadership for the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) Integrated Autism Service (IAS) Team. The Team are shortly moving to a new base at Ysbyty George Thomas in Treorchy but cover the whole of CTM Health Board.
The Integrated Autism Service (IAS) offers diagnostic assessment for adults and direct support for autistic adults and their parent/carers. The service also offers professional consultation, joint working, training, advice and support to all sectors who support autistic people.
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner responsible for managing own workload in a manner that complies with NICE guidance principles, professional conduct standards and legislative requirements around neurodevelopmental services.
The postholder will provide clinical leadership to the Integrated Autism Service (IAS) and across Neurodiversity services, be responsible for establishing systems for monitoring the performance of IAS Services andensuring effective joint working and liaison with other services and agencies within the CTMUHB area.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will lead the service to ensure that the model has a psychological approach, is tightly managed, that strong boundaries are kept and supervision/Integrated team working is prioritised. They will lead on the assessments for entry to the Pathway, co-ordinate the work of the Integrated team and will be involved in managing the most complex and challenging cases.
Provide clinical, professional leadership and supervision for multi-disciplinary practitioners and support service developments across the IAS pathways:
- Provision of appropriate screening and assessment of ASC, consisting of the use of NICE approved measures, individual and collaborative interview, and clinical observations, which offer recourse to multi disciplinary involvement or scrutiny
- Interventions which reflect the difficulties autistic clients typically present with.
- Offer opportunities for the development of ASC in clients, fellow professionals and broader society through the provision of post diagnostic groups, awareness training and further detailed packages of education. Also provide opportunities for the development of other practitioners through individual or group supervision or consultation.
- Engage in appropriate co-production through service users forums, meetings and involvements.
- Ensure that pathways are appropriately established and monitored for the success, appropriateness, and efficacy of interventions.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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 look forward to hearing of your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us and discuss the post informally should you wish to do so in the first instance.
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 look forward to hearing of your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us and discuss the post informally should you wish to do so in the first instance.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Honours Degree in Psychology or other HCPC/BPS recognised combined Honours Degree including Psychology.
- Postgraduate Doctorate Degree in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
- Eligible for Chartered status as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (BPS).
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Training and qualification in leadership.
- Highly developed knowledge of the range of psychological models in their application to complex presenting problems.
- Knowledge of cognitive and sensory impairment, delayed development, biopsychosocial models and the interaction of health and social care model to inform formulation of issues, assess and treat associated from a psychological perspective.
- Specialist training in the assessment of people with Autistic Spectrum disorders, for example ADOS or DISCO.
- Knowledge of government and national policies, national and local drivers, e.g. NSF, BPS guidance, to inform about re-structuring within the NHS and impact on delivery of care.
- Awareness of own development needs, proactive in making recommendation for own CPD, and advising about other's CPD/training needs.
Desirable
- Full understanding of issues related to Counselling/Clinical Psychology training.
- Specialist training in Psychological therapy for example; CBT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Systemic family therapy.
- Record of conference presentations, peer reviewed publications.
Experience
Essential
- Significant therapeutic expertise, and development of areas of expertise in a range of therapeutic approaches e.g. CBT, Systemic, Mindfulness based approaches.
- Significant experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of working with clients who may be unpredictable/violent.
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Able to work with extremely distressing situations, e.g., clients that challenge services, clients with impaired communication skills.
- Ability to develop or existing demonstrable clinical supervision and consultancy skills in a multi-disciplinary context liaising with partner agencies.
- Able to work as a member of a Team.
- Competent interpersonal relating, involving complex emotional change at both the client and service/systems level: families, teams, groups.
- Computing skills, word processing and database usage, research review approaches and working knowledge of statistical analysis packages e.g. SPSS.
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Postgraduate level of research skills
- Able to travel in a timely manner to all locations in CTMUHB.
- Flexible to the service.
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Honours Degree in Psychology or other HCPC/BPS recognised combined Honours Degree including Psychology.
- Postgraduate Doctorate Degree in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
- Eligible for Chartered status as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (BPS).
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Training and qualification in leadership.
- Highly developed knowledge of the range of psychological models in their application to complex presenting problems.
- Knowledge of cognitive and sensory impairment, delayed development, biopsychosocial models and the interaction of health and social care model to inform formulation of issues, assess and treat associated from a psychological perspective.
- Specialist training in the assessment of people with Autistic Spectrum disorders, for example ADOS or DISCO.
- Knowledge of government and national policies, national and local drivers, e.g. NSF, BPS guidance, to inform about re-structuring within the NHS and impact on delivery of care.
- Awareness of own development needs, proactive in making recommendation for own CPD, and advising about other's CPD/training needs.
Desirable
- Full understanding of issues related to Counselling/Clinical Psychology training.
- Specialist training in Psychological therapy for example; CBT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Systemic family therapy.
- Record of conference presentations, peer reviewed publications.
Experience
Essential
- Significant therapeutic expertise, and development of areas of expertise in a range of therapeutic approaches e.g. CBT, Systemic, Mindfulness based approaches.
- Significant experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of working with clients who may be unpredictable/violent.
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Able to work with extremely distressing situations, e.g., clients that challenge services, clients with impaired communication skills.
- Ability to develop or existing demonstrable clinical supervision and consultancy skills in a multi-disciplinary context liaising with partner agencies.
- Able to work as a member of a Team.
- Competent interpersonal relating, involving complex emotional change at both the client and service/systems level: families, teams, groups.
- Computing skills, word processing and database usage, research review approaches and working knowledge of statistical analysis packages e.g. SPSS.
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Postgraduate level of research skills
- Able to travel in a timely manner to all locations in CTMUHB.
- Flexible to the service.
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
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).
