Employer: Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda Hospital plus other sites
Town: Llwynypia
Salary: £46,840 - £53,602 Per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/11/2024 23:59
Specialist Practitioner Psychologist - Weight Management
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Job overview
This is an opportunity for a practitioner psychologist to join the Health Psychology Service in a permanent role within the Weight Management Service. You will be delivering both individual and group interventions using evidence-based psychological models.
You will be working alongside and supervised by a Principal Clinical Psychologist and other members of the MDT, including physiotherapists, dietitians, and medical staff. There will be opportunities for research and service evaluation within this friendly team.
You must be willing to travel as we work at numerous locations across an expansive and beautiful geographical area from the coast to the mountains.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to Adult Weight Management Service covering the Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend areas. The service is based in Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda Hospital, with interventions delivered across multiple sites and remotely.
The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines. This post will also offer the opportunity for you to develop your supervision skills by assisting the senior psychologist with the provision of psychological supervision to the assistant psychologist and wider multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
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
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the British Psychological Society or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
* HCPC registration
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Knowledge of clinical governance issues.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two psychological therapies as applied to people with neurological conditions or long-term physical health conditions.
* Understanding of Local and National policies and relevant political drivers.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations, IT applications using excellent keyboard skills.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working.
* Experience of working with people with long-term physical health conditions.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of working with people who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
* Experience of co-facilitating or running psychoeducational and therapy groups for patients.
Aptitude and abilities
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
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, unless you have permission to work via another route.
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.
#J-18808-Ljbffr