Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a new lifespan focused trauma lead post within CTM UHB. The post holder will join a small team, working closely with a highly specialised psychological therapist, and administrator.
Remit of the role will include representing the UHB nationally as the CTM Traumatic Stress Pathway Lead and contribute to and apply national legislative frameworks and policies with regards to psychological trauma, and trauma informed care. The role will include the strategic development of trauma informed pathways within the UHB and offering consultation to services with regards to complex cases, and client groups across the lifespan. The post sits within the broader specialised services directorate and will be supported by the directorate lead consultant psychologist.
Main duties of the job
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
This role requires the role holder to provide clinical leadership to the Traumatic Stress Pathway within CTM UHB and professional advice and support across wider services.
The role holder will be involved in the strategic future planning for trauma informed care and pathways across the lifespan in CTMUHB and will represent CTMUHB in national discussions.
The role holder will be responsible for establishing systems for monitoring the performance of the traumatic stress pathway.
The role holder will be responsible for ensuring effective joint working and liaison with other services and agencies within the CTMUHB area.
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.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Honours Degree in Psychology. Eligibility for BPS Chartered status. Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner . Psychologist Post-graduate Doctorate in Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
- Formal training in clinical supervision
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in context of Trauma Stress Wales.
- Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision (e.g. EMDR supervisor, DDP).
- Highly developed knowledge of legislation and policy in relation to psychological Trauma, and mental health generally in Wales.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the HCPC or British Psychological Society and in line with the speciality.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Highly specialist knowledge and skills in at least two models of therapeutic intervention relevant for working with those with complex trauma across the lifespan.
- Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes.
- Advanced training in research design and methodology.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books. Accreditation as with, e.g., the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists.
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams and project management.
- Knowledge of key service development issues including mental health and primary care mental health (including steeped/ matched care, and associated HEIW workforce developments.
Experience
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge and experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised post-qualification experience of working across the lifespan with traumatic informed care (e.g. from attachment focused ways of working to PTSD interventions).
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist in senior positions involving supervision and service development.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of providing ongoing consultation and teaching to non-psychologists within medical and/or community settings with regards to trauma informed care and interventions.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of training and supervising psychologists and psychological therapists and trainees.
- Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies.
- Experience of culturally informed ways of working. Record of effective collaboration and team working.
Desirable
- Experience of strategic planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
- Experience of teaching qualified psychologists and other NHS staff.
- Experience of undertaking service development including introduction of new posts to multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
- Ability to take responsibility for managing and developing specialist trauma informed care pathway, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Ability to manage Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within Trauma Stress Pathway in CTMUHB.
- Demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness in individual and group work, risk and clinical assessment.
- Highly developed ability to communicate with service users, families, other professionals and managers about highly complex, sensitive, distressing and sometimes contentious issues relating to patient care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to manage a varied workload effectively. Having the skills to work with multi-professional and joint-agency settings.
- Good IT skills and ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Emotional resilience to work with highly traumatised clients and their distressing experiences.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to families and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of good clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material.
- Ability to travel in a timely manner within geographical area covered by Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Honours Degree in Psychology. Eligibility for BPS Chartered status. Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner . Psychologist Post-graduate Doctorate in Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
- Formal training in clinical supervision
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in context of Trauma Stress Wales.
- Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision (e.g. EMDR supervisor, DDP).
- Highly developed knowledge of legislation and policy in relation to psychological Trauma, and mental health generally in Wales.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the HCPC or British Psychological Society and in line with the speciality.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Highly specialist knowledge and skills in at least two models of therapeutic intervention relevant for working with those with complex trauma across the lifespan.
- Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes.
- Advanced training in research design and methodology.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books. Accreditation as with, e.g., the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists.
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams and project management.
- Knowledge of key service development issues including mental health and primary care mental health (including steeped/ matched care, and associated HEIW workforce developments.
Experience
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge and experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised post-qualification experience of working across the lifespan with traumatic informed care (e.g. from attachment focused ways of working to PTSD interventions).
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist in senior positions involving supervision and service development.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of providing ongoing consultation and teaching to non-psychologists within medical and/or community settings with regards to trauma informed care and interventions.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of training and supervising psychologists and psychological therapists and trainees.
- Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies.
- Experience of culturally informed ways of working. Record of effective collaboration and team working.
Desirable
- Experience of strategic planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
- Experience of teaching qualified psychologists and other NHS staff.
- Experience of undertaking service development including introduction of new posts to multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
- Ability to take responsibility for managing and developing specialist trauma informed care pathway, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Ability to manage Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within Trauma Stress Pathway in CTMUHB.
- Demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness in individual and group work, risk and clinical assessment.
- Highly developed ability to communicate with service users, families, other professionals and managers about highly complex, sensitive, distressing and sometimes contentious issues relating to patient care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to manage a varied workload effectively. Having the skills to work with multi-professional and joint-agency settings.
- Good IT skills and ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Emotional resilience to work with highly traumatised clients and their distressing experiences.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to families and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of good clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material.
- Ability to travel in a timely manner within geographical area covered by Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board.
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).
