Main area: Addictions
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 6 months (Position currently available until March 31st 2025.)
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Flexible working, Monday to Friday with core hours including Tuesday morning)
Job ref: 001-ACS208-0924
Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: House 56, Cardiff Royal Infirmary
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £25,524 - £28,010 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/09/2024 23:59
Clinical Psychology Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
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 focussed 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 have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board’s Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic objectives.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychology Assistant Practitioner to join a pilot service offering trauma-focused psychological interventions to those affected by substance misuse across Cardiff and the Vale. The post is currently for a fixed term period until March 31st 2025 for 18.75 hours/2.5 days per week.
The successful applicant will join an exciting new pilot service offering matched, tiered trauma focused psychological interventions for clients on a new opiate substitute treatment called Buvidal (Long-acting injectable buprenorphine).
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will support the team in better understanding and addressing those seldom-reached individuals who struggle to engage with treatment. You will support the collection, interpretation and reporting of data collected throughout the pilot, with the aim of contributing to the evidence base and adapting service provision to better meet our client's needs.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and appreciative of the challenges of working with difficult to engage clients with complex mental health and social needs. You will be committed to multidisciplinary team working, have excellent relationship building skills and be capable of managing varied work demands.
Person specification
* Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
* Experience of working with people with substance use difficulties
* An upper second class degree or higher in Psychology (or MSc in Psychology)
* Experience of contributing to service evaluation/audit/research
* Experience of conducting psychological assessments
* Experience of using psychological approaches (e.g. MI, CBT, DBT)
* Experience of engaging seldom reached individuals
Application form
* Degree or equivalent in Psychology
* Welsh Speaker
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, unless you have permission to work via another route.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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