Consultant Psychologist, Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastics
There is an exciting opportunity for someone to join and lead the Welsh Centre for Burns & Plastics psychology team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced psychologist to join our team of 3 practitioner psychologists and an Assistant Psychologist. The post holder will lead the team, providing professional leadership and support to the psychologists working in adult and paediatric plastic surgery psychology, and will lead the Burns psychology service. The Burns unit is part of the South West Burns Clinical Network and the Welsh Centre in Morrison works with patients across the lifespan, with the most severely injured adult patients from across the network being cared for here, and the most severely injured children being cared for initially in Bristol. The Burns and Plastics Psychology team work across both inpatient and outpatient settings, including Intensive Care for adult burns patients.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the psychology team, providing professional line management, clinical supervision and ensuring governance across all aspects of the service. The post holder will have the opportunity to work clinically as part of the Burns Unit, working both directly and indirectly with patients across the lifespan. The psychology service is respected and valued across the MDT, and there are opportunities to work with colleagues through regular clinical MDT consults, goal planning and bespoke work with individual patients. The post holder will support the Burns unit in meeting the National Burns Care Standards, and will be the psychology link for the South West Clinical Network.
Job responsibilities
This post is available to practitioner psychologists with appropriate experience and competencies to work at Consultant (8c) level. Please see the attached Job Plan and Person Specification (JP&PS) for more details. The generic JP&PS will be tailored to the specific role and requirements of the service.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
* Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Attendance at several taught post-graduate course and pursuit of supervised self-directed study in specialist field of the defined area. Substantial experience of application of this knowledge
Experience
* Ability to manage Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within the defined Psychology Service
* Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised post-qualification expertise and experience within the field
* Formal leadership development training Experience of Committee work /special interest
Aptitude and abilities
* Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
* Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings
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.
£75,405 to £86,885 a year per annum pro rata
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