Main area: Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 7/8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time working will be considered)
Job ref: 001-PST105-1124
Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Barry Hospital
Town: Barry
Salary: £46,840 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/12/2024 23:59
Practitioner Psychologist for YOD and Memory Team
Band 7/8a
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 focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.
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; Putting People First, Providing Outstanding Quality, Delivering in the Right Places, and Acting for the Future.
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
As an organisation we strongly believe that it is vital our leaders exhibit the behaviours and values that we expect from all our staff.
Job overview
We are excited to offer an innovative post for an applied (Clinical or Counselling) Psychologist to work into our Young Onset Dementia and Memory Team services. The post is full time but applications from those wishing to work part time will also be considered. It is an 8a post and we are in the position to recruit someone who already has the competence and experience relevant to an 8a position, or someone who meets the qualification, training and competence for a band 7 applied psychology post. In the case of the latter, we are able to offer a professional knowledge and skills based development programme that will provide you with the opportunity to acquire the appropriate skills, competencies and development to support you in the post.
You will be joining a well established and highly motivated Older Adult Speciality for psychology services, working closely with other practitioner psychologists. The Older Adult speciality provides services into a number of physical and mental health settings, including Mental Health Services for Older People, and Medical Rehabilitation.
Main duties of the job
The successful post-holder will help to provide a practitioner psychology service to the Young Onset Dementia team and to the community Memory Team service for Cardiff and the Vale. This post contributes to all parts of the dementia pathway and includes the provision of neuropsychological assessments for people presenting to the Memory Team with concerns about their cognition, through to post diagnostic psychological therapy and supporting care partners. Working collaboratively and closely with your MDT colleagues, as well as with people living with dementia and their care partners. The post holder will join a welcoming, innovative and enthusiastic group of psychology practitioners in the service.
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) OR (for trainees) doctorate to be completed by October 2024.
* HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist OR (for trainees) eligible by October 2024.
* 8a Practitioner Psychologist: Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
Experience
* Experience in applying clinical/counselling psychology in the NHS, including cognitive and structured assessment, formulation, intervention, research and service development.
* Experience of effective multi-disciplinary team working in NHS or equivalent.
* Experience of working with people with mental health/psychological problems in a medical setting.
Skills
* Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
* Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively.
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.
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