Main area: Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 7/8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (substantive part time (0.6wte or more) welcomed)
Job ref: 001-PST098-1124
Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Community Mental Health Teams
Town: Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan
Salary: £46,840 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/11/2024 23:59
Practitioner Psychologist (clinical or counselling)
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 focused on the health and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”. We aspire to deliver outstanding care and treatment for people when they need it, where they need it; care that compares well with the best in the world.
Job overview
We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic Practitioner Psychologists (band 7/8a or 8a) to complete our team of psychologists working in adult Community Mental Health Teams. You will provide a range of psychological services to persons with a wide range of complex or enduring psychological distress (therapy; assessment, including cognitive and other specialist assessments; care planning etc). You will also work with your CMHT colleagues to offer psychological advice, formulation, consultation, supervision and training.
We have 1.7wte posts available in total. The substantive post (full time preferred) would be based in the South Locality with a primary responsibility for the Links CMHT alongside the locality 8b psychologist.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a range of psychological services to persons with a wide range of complex or enduring psychological distress (individual and group therapy; assessment, including cognitive and other specialist assessments; care planning etc). You will also work with your CMHT colleagues to offer psychological advice, formulation, consultation, supervision and training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The roles are well supported - we have three locality leads (8b) working with the psychologists in each locality cluster of CMHTs. These posts are managed by the service lead for CMHT Psychology, and report to a Locality Lead Psychologist.
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 end of 2024
* HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist OR (for trainees) eligible by October 2024
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.
Skills
* Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
* Ability to contribute to the development of, and to implement, agreed policies and strategic long-term service developments.
Special knowledge
* Practitioner Psychologist: Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, psychological therapies and their application.
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received.
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
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
Name: Dr Tansy Mayfield
Job title: Consultant Psychologist, Lead for CMHT Psychology
Email address: [emailprotected]
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