Job summary
Fixed term up to 18 months due to current funding
Are you passionate about supporting the emotional wellbeing of parents and their infants during the crucial early years? We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to join our newly established Nurturing Families Service -- a pioneering initiative dedicated to strengthening the earliest relationships that lay the foundation for lifelong mental health.
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Practitioner Psychologist or Child Psychotherapist to play a key role in shaping and delivering this service. This is a chance to work at the cutting edge of infant mental health, support families during a transformative stage of life.
We would also welcome applications from soon to be, or newly qualified clinical psychologists looking to progress to a senior clinical psychology role. The successful candidate would be appointed into a development post at Band 7 where a development plan will be agreed to identify and achieve specific competencies that will be required to progress to Band 8a.
You will be part of our growing team of psychological professionals working with babies, children and families in CTMUHB. We are a friendly and supportive team who support continued professional development and innovative practice.
To work alongside Clinical Lead of the Nurturing families service to provide a psychological/ psychotherapeutic offer for the CTM Nurturing Families Service within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).
Main duties of the job
Will work from UHB and local authority sites across the CTMUHB footprint.
To assist in ensuring the systematic provision of a comprehensive, specialist clinical psychology/child psychotherapy service across all sectors of care to babies and children and their families in CTMUHB.
To provide specialist, psychological/psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions for patients referred to CTM Nurturing Families Service, informed by modern evidence based psychological professional knowledge.
To provide teaching, training and consultation to support psychological/ psychotherapeutic assessment and interventions provided by other members of the CTM Nurturing Families Service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and support for the systematic governance of psychological/ psychotherapeutic practice within the CTM Nurturing Families Service.
To work alongside the team to conduct and supervise audit and research, and to develop and evaluate novel clinical and psychological programmes, as a major job responsibility.
Welsh Skills Desirable: 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.
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/Knowledge/Training
Essential
- Honours Degree in Psychology, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at Doctoral Level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. OR Fully recognised professional qualification as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist (as recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists) at Doctorate Level.
- Current HCPC registration/Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists/psychotherapists.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological/psychotherapeutic therapies in working with the parent-infant relationship.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological/psychotherapeutic therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in multi-professional teams.
Desirable
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions (e.g. nursing, occupational therapy).
Skills
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Recognition of the need to communicate well with patients and families and also as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the role.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Excellent IT skills. Competence in keyboard skills and using a range of software.
- Demonstrates good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Welsh language skills Speaking/Listening Level 3 or above
Other
Essential
- Ability to be independently mobile between Health Board centres and wider in a timely manner.
- Is enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Satisfactory DBS check.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Knowledge/Training
Essential
- Honours Degree in Psychology, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at Doctoral Level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. OR Fully recognised professional qualification as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist (as recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists) at Doctorate Level.
- Current HCPC registration/Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists/psychotherapists.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological/psychotherapeutic therapies in working with the parent-infant relationship.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological/psychotherapeutic therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in multi-professional teams.
Desirable
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions (e.g. nursing, occupational therapy).
Skills
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Recognition of the need to communicate well with patients and families and also as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the role.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Excellent IT skills. Competence in keyboard skills and using a range of software.
- Demonstrates good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Welsh language skills Speaking/Listening Level 3 or above
Other
Essential
- Ability to be independently mobile between Health Board centres and wider in a timely manner.
- Is enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Satisfactory DBS check.
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).
