High Intensity Specialist Psychological Therapy Practitioner
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate Band 7 therapist to join our thriving Older Person's Psychology Team within CTMUHB, on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will work across localities within CTMUHB, within Older Person's Mental Health, experiencing the breadth of clinical work that the specialty has to offer.
The CTMUHB Older Person's Psychology Team consists of a supportive and passionate team of colleagues, including both Clinical and Counselling Psychologists and High Intensity Specialist psychological therapists. We're a team who embraces change and opportunity. The successful candidate will be well supported and mentored by senior colleagues, and provided with a range of opportunities for career development.
The wider Psychology service within CTMUHB has undergone exciting developments and is a thriving department. We hold regular conferences throughout the year, where psychology teams across CTMUHB come together to share good practice and innovations. We have close links with local training programmes and provide regular training and placement opportunities to Trainees.
Main duties of the job
CTM UHB Older Person's Mental Health services are currently divided into five areas: Bridgend, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and Merthyr - each area consists of an Older Person's Community Mental Health Team (OPCMHT) and Memory Assessment Service (MAS) and feeds into the Older Person's Mental Health inpatient wards within the health board. The successful candidate for this post will be based within OPCMHT and MAS, working across localities, depending on service need.
The post holder will sit within well-established multi-disciplinary teams, providing specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to the team. This role provides an opportunity for a Band 7 Therapist to work within OPCMHT, providing a high quality psychological therapy service to the teams and locality population. This primarily includes providing a psychological assessment and therapy service to older adults under secondary care mental health services (Part 2 of the Mental Health Measure, 2010), as well as consultation and training as required for staff within the wider OPCMHT. The role will sit within CMHTs, and the successful candidate will provide psychological therapies for CMHT clients.
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 responsibilities
This role is also offered as a development opportunity, whereby the post may be offered under Annex 21 of the Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions.
Completion of the qualification is a requirement of the contract of employment.
During this training period, salary will be paid in accordance with Annex 21 of the Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions. Months 1-12 of the training period will be paid at 75% of the top of Band 7 pay scale.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
* Master's Level qualification, or the equivalent level of highly developed specialist skills, knowledge and experience.
* Training in CBT and 1 other psychotherapeutic model.
* Registered with a recognised professional body e.g. HCPC.
* Training in a model of clinical supervision.
* Knowledge and experience of research in a field relevant to post.
Experience
* Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
* Experience of working in multi-professional teams or services.
* Experience of working with older people with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
Values
* Commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
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.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
£46,840 to £53,602 a year, pro rata (annex 21 at 75% may apply)
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