As part of exciting new developments in psychological services for children & young people in CTMUHB, we are seeking an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to lead our psychology and psychological therapies team working in community mental health services.

Our vision is to provide excellent psychological care both in specialist psychological approaches and in supporting our multidisciplinary teams to provide psychologically informed care. We value working in partnership across disciplines & agencies to understand children and young people holistically and in the context of their experiences, circumstances, strengths and potential. We wish to provide whole systems approaches, aligning with best practice. Our stance is hopeful, compassionate, enabling, inclusive and respectful.

You will bring extensive expertise in the psychological care of children and young people and their families, delivering services with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency partners and leading Psychologists and Psychological Therapists. You will be a values-centered professional who has children's best interests at the heart of your practice, be passionate about providing excellent public services, and be supportive and enabling of colleagues.

We are a small and growing psychological team who are welcoming, friendly & supportive. You and your professional development will be valued and nurtured. You will be part of a thriving wider cross specialty psychological workforce in the Health Board.

Main duties of the job

To grow and strengthen the Psychology Department in CTMUHB.

Improving access to psychologically informed care across the life span.

To lead on developing the provision of psychological services to children and young people within CTMUHB Children and Young People's Community Mental Health Services.

To provide leadership to support progression of services, direct supervision and working with multidisciplinary and multiagency stakeholders to identify service priorities and deliver excellent clinical care to children and young people.

Tol act as a senior clinician, and be a member of the CTMUHB Children and Young People's Community Mental Health Services leadership team.

To contribute specialist expertise in psychological services and practice to multidisciplinary and multiagency services.

To be responsible for the recruitment of staff, providing and/or ensuring appropriate line management and supervision (professional and clinical) is in place.

To provide consultation to other professionals, training, and multi-disciplinary work in relation to staff support.

The post holder will actively engage in service development. The role will also include planning and initiating service developments within the service and considering different ways of working to maximise the scope of psychology/psychological therapies provision for children, young people and families in the community.

About us

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.

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

• Registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling)
• Significant postgraduate training, qualification or experience in specialist psychological approaches in specific therapeutic modalities (such as EMDR, DDP, CBT, Systemic Family Therapy) or with particular clinical populations (such as care experienced young people, young people involved in offending, children with disabilities.
• Strong knowledge of child development, systems, and the impacts of developmental and specific trauma upon children, young people, families and systems.
• Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.
• Awareness and knowledge of issues of difference and inclusion and how these may impact on the health care of children and families.
• Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with children, young people and families who may be highly distressed.
• Highly developed ability to communicate with children, families, other professionals and managers about highly complex, sensitive and sometimes contentious issues relating to patient care.
• Expert and up to date knowledge of national policy and legislation in relation to children and families as relevant to this post.

Desirable

• Post doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice
• Training and qualifications in public sector service leadership
• Highly specialist knowledge and skills in at least two models of intervention for children and families

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist with children, young people and families in a mental health setting
• Experience of close collaboration in multi-professional and multiagency clinical teams, includes experience of leading multi-professional teams in clinical work and service development.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment, including within multidisciplinary care or treatment plans.
• Experience of teaching, training and clinical supervision of psychologists and other professionals.

Desirable

• Experience of innovation and in partnership working to develop and deliver high quality new forms of psychological care to children, young people and families.
• Experience of co-producing services with children, young people and families.

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential

• A record of effective collaboration and team working.
• A recognition and ability to contain and manage the stress of working in children and young people's mental health care care setting, and the ability to respond to enabling others to manage their stress in the organisation.
• Ability to manage a varied workload effectively.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh.

Other

Essential

• Ability to be mobile between UHB sites, centres and wider.
• Able to work hours flexibly

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Tonteg Hospital

Church Road

Pontypridd

CF38 1HG

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110-PST082-1024