Job summary
We are delighted to invite applications for a Consultant Psycholoigist/Child Psychotherapist to join and help shape our newly established Nurturing Families Service. This innovative service is dedicated to supporting the emotional wellbeing of infants and their parents by strengthening early relationships during the most formative period of life.
As Clinical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in the development, leadership, and delivery of this pioneering service. Working collaboratively with a partners across health and local authorities, you will bring clinical expertise, strategic vision, and compassionate leadership to help embed infant mental health at the heart of our local care pathway, and to generate a strong foundation to secure future funding and growth of the service.
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.
Main duties of the job
Be responsible for all aspects of developing and implementing the specialist Nurturing Families Parent-Infant Mental Health Service across CTM including planning any delegated budget for staffing and contributing to spending plans for multi-agency workforce development.
They will work closely with senior leaders in the Health Board and Local Authorities to establish key performance indicators, to deliver high performance and impact for families, and to establish means to evidence this clinical and cost effectiveness.
They will establish and chair a multiagency operational steering group for the service.
Develop a comprehensive programme of training necessary to impart the highly specialised parent-infant relationship skills required for all practitioners across CTM, from those working in universal and community services through to highly specialist practitioners and tier 4 services.
Be responsible for training plan implementation and will be involved in some of the development and delivery. Development of the training will involve collaboration with other institutions, including universities and other national training organisations.
Clinically, they will hold a small clinical caseload and will manage and clinically lead the clinical practitioner staff of the team.
This post is fixed term until 31/03/2027 due to funding
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.
Welsh Skills Essential: This post is advertised as Welsh skills are essential. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. We dont need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
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.
Welsh Skills Essential: This post is advertised as Welsh skills are essential. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. We dont need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level training as a Practitioner Psychologist (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by Health and Care Professions Council, HCPC. OR Doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy. Registered as a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and regulated by the Professional Standards Authority. Formal training in clinical supervision.
- Well-developed knowledge of psychological issues facing parents and infants as well as evidence-base for psychological interventions.
- Significant post-graduate training/qualification in a systematic therapy such as DDP, Thera play, Systemic Psychotherapy.
- Specialist knowledge of the needs of parents and infant and the parent-infant relationship in Wales.
- Highly developed knowledge of evidence-based interventions and supervision techniques/practices
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, social, educational and criminal justice systems
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.
- Highly developed knowledge of key NHS policy developments for psychological therapies and services generally and for babies, children and young people in particular
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological/psychotherapeutic practice.
- Highly specialist knowledge and skills in at least two models of therapeutic intervention relevant for working with parents, infants and their families.
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams and project management. Accreditation as with e.g. the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists; UK Council for Psychotherapy.
- Knowledge of key service development issues including mental health and multi-agency partnership working including regional partnership boards and funding streams.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist/child psychotherapist in senior positions involving clinical leadership, supervision and service development.
- Experience of representing psychology/psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care.
- Experience of providing on-going consultation and teaching to non- psychologists within NHS and Local Authority settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course 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 clients' psychological care and treatment, both as care coordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care plan.
- Experience of training and supervising psychologists, psychotherapists and psychological therapists and trainees.
- Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies.
- Experience of cultural diversity.
Desirable
- Experience of multi-professional, multi-agency management within teams or services.
- Experience of application of psychology in different cultural context.
- Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes. Experience of teaching qualified psychologists/psychotherapists and other NHS staff.
- Experience of working in a mental health setting and experience of working within a multicultural framework, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Experience of undertaking service development including introduction of new posts to multi-disciplinary teams and multiagency settings.
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Ability to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Ability to manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialist issues.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the HCPC or British Psychological Society/Association of Child Psychotherapists/Professional Standards Authority.
- Record of effective collaboration and team working, and in particular, of innovation.
- Can demonstrate 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 client care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- A recognition and ability to contain and manage the stress of working mental health services and the ability to respond to enabling others to manage their stress in organisations.
- Ability to manage a varied workload effectively.
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Essential for this Role.
Other role requirements
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to babies, families and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of excellent clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of psychological professions based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Having the skills to work within multi-professional, multi-agency settings.
- Emotional resilience to work with highly traumatised clients and their distressing material.
- Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership.
Desirable
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level training as a Practitioner Psychologist (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by Health and Care Professions Council, HCPC. OR Doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy. Registered as a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and regulated by the Professional Standards Authority. Formal training in clinical supervision.
- Well-developed knowledge of psychological issues facing parents and infants as well as evidence-base for psychological interventions.
- Significant post-graduate training/qualification in a systematic therapy such as DDP, Thera play, Systemic Psychotherapy.
- Specialist knowledge of the needs of parents and infant and the parent-infant relationship in Wales.
- Highly developed knowledge of evidence-based interventions and supervision techniques/practices
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, social, educational and criminal justice systems
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.
- Highly developed knowledge of key NHS policy developments for psychological therapies and services generally and for babies, children and young people in particular
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological/psychotherapeutic practice.
- Highly specialist knowledge and skills in at least two models of therapeutic intervention relevant for working with parents, infants and their families.
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams and project management. Accreditation as with e.g. the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists; UK Council for Psychotherapy.
- Knowledge of key service development issues including mental health and multi-agency partnership working including regional partnership boards and funding streams.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist/child psychotherapist in senior positions involving clinical leadership, supervision and service development.
- Experience of representing psychology/psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care.
- Experience of providing on-going consultation and teaching to non- psychologists within NHS and Local Authority settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course 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 clients' psychological care and treatment, both as care coordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care plan.
- Experience of training and supervising psychologists, psychotherapists and psychological therapists and trainees.
- Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies.
- Experience of cultural diversity.
Desirable
- Experience of multi-professional, multi-agency management within teams or services.
- Experience of application of psychology in different cultural context.
- Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes. Experience of teaching qualified psychologists/psychotherapists and other NHS staff.
- Experience of working in a mental health setting and experience of working within a multicultural framework, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Experience of undertaking service development including introduction of new posts to multi-disciplinary teams and multiagency settings.
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Ability to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Ability to manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialist issues.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the HCPC or British Psychological Society/Association of Child Psychotherapists/Professional Standards Authority.
- Record of effective collaboration and team working, and in particular, of innovation.
- Can demonstrate 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 client care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- A recognition and ability to contain and manage the stress of working mental health services and the ability to respond to enabling others to manage their stress in organisations.
- Ability to manage a varied workload effectively.
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Essential for this Role.
Other role requirements
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to babies, families and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of excellent clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of psychological professions based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Having the skills to work within multi-professional, multi-agency settings.
- Emotional resilience to work with highly traumatised clients and their distressing material.
- Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership.
Desirable
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
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).
