We want to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, and dynamic Clinical Psychologist, to join our Stepped Care Initiative within Adult Mental Health Psychology & Psychological Services across Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. This post is permanent and will be based in the Central region.

The post involves working with primary care mental health services across the age range of younger and older adults. You will be joining a friendly, welcoming, and growing Adult Mental Health Psychology & Psychological Services, with excellent clinical and research links with the School of Psychology and the DClinPsych Department at the University of Wales, Bangor.

The countryside of North Wales offers an excellent quality of life, and the post is within existing established inpatient psychology services. The post holder will also benefit from BCUHB wide links across North Wales within the wider Psychology Services, with opportunity for clinical networking North Wales wide. You will be well supported, mentored, supervised, and managed within AMH Psychology.

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

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work under the supervision of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist post for Stepped Care in BCUHB and be expected to provide leadership to the Primary Mental Health Service MDT on psychological knowledge and skills, relevant to all the practitioners within LPMHSS. This will require excellent interpersonal skills, and an ability to integrate and co-work well with MDT colleagues, so providing accessible specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to the primary care mental health team. As well as providing direct clinical input to clients including specialised psychological assessments and neuropsychological assessments, formulation, and group or individual intervention work the post will also involve working through others by offering training, supervision, and team formulation. It will involve attendance at clinical MDT meetings, referral meetings, primary care business meetings, and general clinical leadership. It will also involve the supervision of lower grade psychologists, assistants and trainees.

About us

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and 'Proud to Lead' competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the Disability Confident Employer scheme.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Job description

Job 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

Essential

• Good Honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS.
• Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.

Experience

Essential

• Additional appropriate experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist. This will usually include significant post-qualification experience in the specialty.
• Additional specialist training or experience under supervision for 50 hours in a Specialist Area, including case presentations, group supervision and short courses.

Desirable

• Experience of Teaching, Training and/ or supervision Additional training in assessment or therapeutic intervention in a specialist area of Psychology.

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential

• 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.
• Ability to make clinical and service-related judgements involving highly complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh

Employer details

Employer name

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Address

To be confirmed

East

Central

LL57 2PW

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050-PST119-0724