Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £30,420 - £37,030 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/11/2024 23:59
Assistant Psychologist in Paediatric Neurology
Band 5
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focused on the health and care needs of our local population while also working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”. We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board’s Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic objectives.
We are a values-driven organisation and our goals will only be realised if our values are at the heart of everything we do. Created by colleagues, patients and their families and carers, our values are:
* We are kind and caring
* We are respectful
* We have trust and integrity
* We take personal responsibility
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 5 Assistant Psychologist to join the newly formed Paediatric Neurology Psychology Service based at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. The post is permanent 0.46 WTE.
The successful applicant will join a supportive multidisciplinary team and make a significant contribution to the development of this newly established psychology service, which provides support to families of children and young people with a neurological condition.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be involved in supporting psychological/neuropsychological assessment and interventions, co-facilitating groups and attending multidisciplinary team meetings. The post holder will assist with audit, literature reviews, developing resources, service evaluations, teaching/training, and undertaking administrative tasks.
The work will involve inpatient and outpatient work. All work will be supervised by the joint lead Dr Zoe Moss, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Dr Kathryn Bond, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
* An upper second-class honours degree or higher in Psychology with eligibility for graduate basis for chartership with the British Psychological Society.
* Post graduate training (workshops/courses) in one or more specialties.
* Post graduate qualification in a relevant area of psychology, research or related discipline.
Experience
* Experience of working with adults and/or children and young people and their families who may present with challenges across a range of settings.
* Experience of working in an MDT.
* Understanding the importance and function of supervision.
* Experience of applying clinical/counselling/neuropsychology in the NHS (counselling or psychological/neuropsychological interventions under supervision).
* Experience working with a diverse range of communities.
* Previous experience of audit and/or service evaluation.
* Awareness of and commitment to the promotion of equity, diversity and inclusion especially for marginalised groups.
Skills
* Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
* An ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to patients, carers and colleagues.
* Evidence of supporting audit, service development and innovation.
* Clearly demonstrated creative skills in developing service resources.
* Evidence of ability to manage competing demands and working autonomously.
* Demonstrable skills and knowledge of developing and running groups.
* Ability to reflect on own experiences and open to reflecting on this in supervision.
Special knowledge
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of children and young people with a health condition.
* Ability to carry out standardised psychological/neuropsychological assessments.
* Specialist knowledge related to the area of work.
* Interest and enthusiasm for working with people to increase their psychological skills.
* Empathic interpersonal style.
* Reflective capacity.
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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