Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and extensively experienced Practitioner Psychologist to apply for a Lead Consultant post (Band 8c) within Clinical Neuropsychiatry. This is a regional service.
The role is to provide expert leadership, professional and clinical services and join the multi-disciplinary team providing services to people who have acquired brain injury and complex mental health difficulties, their families and carers and requiring the specialist neuropsychiatry service.
The successful candidate would join the Neuropsychiatric management and Leadership Team, work collaboratively with the Psychology Head of Specialty and be part of the Directorate of Mental Health Services for Older People and Neuropsychiatry and the Psychology and Psychological Therapies Directorate. All aspects of neuropsychiatry service design, development and delivery is part of the leadership role.
In addition, there is also a specific clinical element to this senior role. This is to provide clinical neuropsychological expertise and to work closely with medical and multidisciplinary colleagues within the service.
The post is based at the University Hospital Llandough.
It is a part-time (0.8 WTE/30 hours per week), permanent role.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital, Cardiff. The role involves leading on the psychological care in this setting and being part of the neuropsychiatry management and decision-making team for the service. The role includes providing direct clinical assessments and interventions, formulations, setting strategic direction, service development/improvement, working closely with our multidisciplinary staff, supervision/consultancy, education and research/audit.
The post holder would be expected to collaborate and work alongside other leads and managers to ensure all our services are of high quality and collaborate with the Psychology Head of Specialty. The post holder will act as an expert advisor on clinical neuropsychiatry within the UHB, to the Directorate, local clinical services and regionally, national groups and specialist commissioners.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS.
* Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
* HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice, particularly clinical neuropsychology.
* Qualification in supervision.
* Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN).
* Evidence of peer-reviewed publications, presentations at conferences or similar contributions.
Experience
* Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner with experience of working within neuropsychiatry.
* Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
* Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
* Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence-based and high-intensity psychological interventions.
* Demonstrable evidence of specialist clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with service users as co-producers.
* Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
Skills
* Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Communication and relationship skills.
* Analytical and judgement skills.
* Planning and organisational skills.
Special knowledge
* Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a longer-term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty.
* Well-developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions in brain injury and clinical neuropsychology.
* Evidence of significant post-doctorate qualification and continued professional development.
* Respect for users of services and their carers.
* Commitment to working collaboratively with users of services and their care partners to develop and improve services.
* Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal.
* Ability to make decisions and problem-solve.
* Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material.
* Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
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.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
001-PST081-1024
Job locations
Hafan Y Coed, University Hospital of Llandough
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