Consultant Practitioner Psychologist Band 8c

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic practitioner psychologist to lead and further develop a high quality, responsive and accessible Learning Disability (LD) psychology service within Swansea Bay University Healthboard.

The post holder will be welcomed into the broader Swansea Bay Mental Health and Learning Disability (MHLD) psychology department, and will be expected to play an active role in collaborating with other psychologists on joint projects and initiatives. The postholder will join a Consultant Lead Psychology team within our LD Division, with access to regular peer supervision CPD, reflective practice and service development work as well as having an ongoing programme of clinical and professional development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will professionally lead a team of psychologists and psychological therapists within the Cardiff and Vale hub area, ensuring that appropriate management structures and good clinical governance for the team isin place. They will support the Professional Lead for MHLD Psychology with recruitment to any additional, funded posts within the service area. Additionally, they will undertake direct and indirect clinical work, offering a range of psychological interventions to patients, their families and networks. They will work with the multidisciplinary Community Learning Disability Teams (CLDT) ensuring that service plans, developments and pathways are psychologically informed.

The lead psychologist will ensure systems are in place for reviewing and evaluating the service, and for ensuring good clinical governance across psychology. They will help to ensure other psychologists and psychological therapists have appropriate support and supervision in place and are enabled to develop their professional competencies and careers.

About us

We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.

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Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

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.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications / Knowledge

Essential

• Eligibility for BPS Chartered status. Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC Post-graduate Doctorate in Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS, Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees

Desirable

• Record of publications in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
• Pre- or postdoctoral training in a specialist area of learning disabilities

Experience

Essential

• Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised post- qualification expertise and experience with learning disabilities
• Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision
• Experience of teaching and training

Desirable

• Formal leadership development training
• Experience of Committee work /special interest Fora

Apptitude and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
• Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings

Desirable

• Welsh Language Skills

Other

Essential

• Ability to initiate discrete policy changes or service developments which impact beyond the Learning Disability Psychology Service
• Ability to adhere to BPS and HCPC Professional Guidelines and be accountable for own professional actions and decisions at all times

Employer details

Employer name

Swansea Bay University Health Board

Address

The Parade

Roath

Cardiff

CF24 3AB

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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