The Forensic Adolescent Consultation and Treatment Service (FACTS) is a national Tier-4 service that provides specialist assessment and consultation for children (aged 10-17) deemed high risk to others, presenting with significant complexity.

Working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues, the successful candidate will provide psychological formulation, assessment and consultation to the multi-agency system. There are two streams to the service - FACS for CAMHS and FACS for Youth Justice. This role will provide input to children referred by CAMHS. You will be responsible for leading FACS for CAMHS involvement for a small caseload of children with support and input from other members of the Multi-disciplinary team.

You will join a team of four other supportive qualified Psychologists in the FACS Team. The successful candidate will be a member of CTM Psychology which has psychologists and therapists working across a range of different areas.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will offer psychological input to FACS for CAMHS in the following ways:

Direct clinical work

• Offering psychological opinion and direct assessment to aid the multi-agency system's understanding of risk, risk management and associated needs of the the child.
• Joint working with Nursing, Psychiatry, Family Therapy, and Social Workers all of whom work within FACS for CAMHS.

Indirect clinical work

• Working collaboratively with services within the child's system and an opportunity to develop consultancy skills with support from an MDT
• Provision of teaching and training to CAMHS services
• Opportunity to engage in audit and research and other CPD activities
• Supporting service development and improvement projects
• Opportunity to develop skills and gain experience in structured risk assessment. You will be supported to gain required training to enable you to fulfill your role as relevant.

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

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 Knowledge

Essential

• Honours Degree in Psychology. Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or Postgraduate Doctorate in Forensic Psychology.
• Relevant additional specialist training or supervised practice in a therapeutic approach
• Relevant additional specialist training or knowledge and experience in a child setting.
• Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registration as a practitioner psychologist.

Desirable

• Clinical supervisor training for doctoral clinical psychology trainees.
• Additional training in attachment related interventions with children and/or young people.
• Relevant experience working in a forensic setting.

Experience

Essential

• Experience working as a qualified applied psychologist in an area relevant to this post.
• Evidence of competent and autonomous clinical practice, effective multi-disciplinary working, and involvement in safeguarding and multi-agency risk management approaches.

Desirable

• Experience of working within CAMH service for clients with complex needs, in justice systems.
• Experience of offering a specialist CAMHS consultation service.
• Experience of forensic risk assessment and use of structured professional judgement tools.

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Ty Llidiard, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend

Coity Road

Bridgend

CF31 1RQ

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