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 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.
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.
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.
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 use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively.
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 and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
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