Main area Practitioner Psychologist - Paediatric Persistent Pain Service Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent: Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist - Paediatric Persistent Pain Service Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Changes to working pattern to be agreed within Service) Job ref 001-PST112-1224
Employer Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales (NACHFW), UHW Town Cardiff Salary £63,150 - £73,379 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/01/2025 23:59
Practitioner Psychologist - Paediatric Persistent Pain Service
Band 8b
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 16,000 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.
OUR REGION:
Wales has much to offer with miles of stunning coastline, UNESCO world heritage sites and beautiful countryside. Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, has something for everyone. It is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Practitioner Psychologist to lead on the development of psychologically-informed care within an All Wales Paediatric Persistent Pain Service. The successful candidate will provide psychological expertise and consultation to support the establishment and development of a new, evidence and value-based model of care to meet the needs of Children and Young People with Persistent Pain, and their families, across Wales.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will provide psychologically informed expertise and clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team developing and delivering a persistent pain service that supports children and young people from diverse backgrounds across Wales. This will include individual patient work, group work, consultation to others and support and supervision of colleagues.
Partnership working is essential for this role through co-production, fostering multidisciplinary and multi-agency relationships.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
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.
Experience
* Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist within clinical health psychology/medical settings.
* Significant experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
* Evidence of service development and innovation.
* Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with service users as co-producers.
Skills
* High level knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialist psychological therapies.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to specialty.
* Communication & Relationship skills as described on person specification.
* Planning and Organisational Skills as described on person specification.
* Ability to identify and provide highly specialised, psychologically informed support to carers and staff.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Providing service feedback and audit data to stakeholders.
* Awareness and application of equality, diversity and inclusion in practice.
Personal Qualities
* Commitment to and interest in working with children and young people, and their families, with persistent pain.
* Willingness to participate in continuing professional development.
* Requirement to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing and traumatic situations.
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.
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 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Kerry-Ann Holder Job title Service Lead for Child Health Psychology Email address [emailprotected] Telephone number 029 2074 2139
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