Leading a specialist psychology service carrying a specialist and complex caseload supporting and supervising other psychologists, and other professions providing psychological care/therapy providing advice and consultancy to professionals/staff delivering psychological care/therapy line management and clinical leadership of relevant teams, services, practitioners, assistants, trainees, students from own and/or other professions undertakes/leads service development and improvement activities, audit and R& D assess need, designs and provides skills teaching, training, and lecturing.

Main duties of the job

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving 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 working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is Caring for People, Keeping People Well,and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification in the supporting documents.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice, particularly Children, Young People and Families
• Qualification in supervision
• Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist within Children's Services.
• Extensive experience of working with a wide range of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions.
• Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including individual supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
• Experience in audit and evaluation of clinical services.
• Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users as co-producers.
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
• Experience of application of psychology within different contexts (e.g. cultural).
• Experience of working with NHS planning forums.
• Experience of leading a therapy team.
• Experience of conducting research of a high a standard.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex / sensitive information effectively, requiring empathy and reassurance, in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
• Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
• Ability to manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialty issues.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to interpret general clinical, professional and organisational policies and to use own initiative to establish how they should be applied within the area of specialty.
• Ability to design and implement policy for Children and young people's services and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity.
• Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a long term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty.

Special Knowledge

Essential

• Well-developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies related to the needs of Children and Young People
• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical / counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, psychological therapies and their application. Including highly developed knowledge of psychology relevant to people with severe and enduring and complex mental health, dementia and those at risk and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical / counselling psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the service.
• Up-to-date knowledge of NHS management, service development and policy implementation in Wales-wide services.
• Knowledge of any national service guidelines for the area of specialty and its implications for clinical practice and professional management in relation to mental health services for Children and Young People.

Desirable

• Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
• Knowledge of local NHS structures.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Respect for users of services and their Carers.
• Commitment to working collaboratively with users of services and their care partners to develop and improve services.
• Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal.
• Leadership and management qualities.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
• Ability to negotiate within the NHS and with external bodies.
• Ability to motivate and influence people to deliver a high-quality service.
• Ability to make decisions and problem solve.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to hold the stress for others.
• Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material.
• Ability to display exceptional skills in the respectful, therapeutic handling of clients.

Desirable

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a desire to continue to develop expertise in the area of specialty.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner.
• Must be capable of working within organisational policies, and be accountable for own professional actions.
• Ability to use standard and specialist software.
• Formal training in assessment.
• Ability to use consultation in order to reflect upon one's clinical practice.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
• Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context.

Employer details

Employer name

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Address

St David's Children Centre

Cowbridge Road East

Cardiff

CF11 9XB

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