Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health - Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST061-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dewi Sant Heath Park/Pentre Municipal Offices
- Town
- Pontypridd/Pentre
- Salary
- £44,398 - £58,210 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist/Senior Psychologist
Band 7/8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a practitioner psychologist to provide specialist provision within CTM’s adult community mental health teams. The successful candidate will join a diverse and passionate team of psychologists working across the community teams in CTM. Senior colleagues will provide support and mentoring to the successful candidate to develop within the post, and to engage in CPD. The CMHT psychologists are also currently engaged in an exciting period of service development where there are many opportunities to be involved and work within your area of interest.
The CMHT psychology service is made up of clinical and counselling psychologists, and assistant psychologists. We also currently have a CAAP trainee and are developing this role within our service. We have close links with both the clinical and counselling doctorate in South Wales and consistently have trainees on placement with us.
The wider CTM psychology service is going through a period of development aimed to foster good links and communication across specialities and is a thriving department to sit within. There are service wide conferences held where all specialities are invited to share good practice and innovative work. Colleagues are also encouraged to support each other with specialist skills in both clinical and service development work.
Main duties of the job
The post involves taking a lead in promoting psychological ways of understanding and working across adult mental health, including service development and application of evidence-based, trauma informed models within CMHT’s and working with complex and long-term service users. This will include undertaking complex clinical work, developing and delivering group programmes, providing training, supervision, formulation and professional reflective spaces for colleagues in psychology and other disciplines. S/he/they will also be expected and supported to undertake further training in relevant specialist areas, monitor and evaluate service developments and provide regular reports as appropriate.
This post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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.
We are in the position to recruit Psychologists who already have the competence and experience relevant to an 8a position, or Psychologists who meet the qualification, training and competence for a band 7 post. In the case of the latter, we are able to offer a professional knowledge and skills-based development programme that will provide you with the opportunity to acquire the appropriate skills and competencies to enable your progression into the 8a role within an appropriate timescale.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) including specifically, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS or registered for, and actively pursuing, the Statement of Equivalence in Clinical Psychology.
- Eligibility for registration with the Health Professions Council.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of risk assessment and management.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems.
Desirable criteria
- Introduction to specialised therapies.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts addressing issues of socio-economic deprivation or marginalization.
- Experience of working with risky clients
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in multi-professional teams or services.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Caroline Durrant
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 351100
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