Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and extensively experienced Practitioner Psychologist to apply for a Lead Consultant post (Band 8c) within Clinical Neuropsychiatry. This is a regional service.
The role is to provide expert leadership, professional and clinical services and join the multi disciplinary team providing services to people who have acquired brain injury and complex mental health difficulties, their families and carers and requiring the specialist neuropsychiatry service
The successful candidate would join the Neuropsychiatric management and Leadership Team , work collaboratively with the Psychology Head of Specialty and be part of the Directorate of Mental Health Services for Older People and Neuropsychiatry and the Psychology and Psychological Therapies Directorate . All aspects of neuropsychiatry service design, development and delivery is part of the leadership role.
In addition, there is also a specific clinical element to this senior role. This is to provide clinical neuropsychological expertise and to work closely with medical and multidisciplinary colleagues within the service.
The post is based at the University Hospital Llandough.
It is a part -time (0.8 WTE/30 hours per week), permanent role.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital. Cardiff. The role involves leading on the psychological care in this setting and being part of the neuropsychiatry management and decision making team for the service. The role includes providing direct clinical assessments and interventions, formulations, setting strategic direction, service development/improvement, working closely with our multidisciplinary staff, supervision/consultancy, education and research/audit.
The post holder would be expected to collaborate and work alongside other leads and managers to ensure all our services are of high quality and collaborate with the Psychology Head of Specialty . The post holder will act as an expert advisor on clinical neuropsychiatry within the UHB, to the Directorate, local clinical services and regionally, national groups and specialist commissioners.
Extensive and substantial knowledge and experience of applying psychology in complex medical settings is essential. Direct clinical experience, or demonstrable transferable skills, in the application of clinical psychology within neuropsychiatry services and/or working with complex mental health issues, neurological/brain injury and damage is essential.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; 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 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital. Cardiff.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital. Cardiff.
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
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 clinical neuropsychology
- Qualification in supervision
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences or similar contributions
Experience
Essential
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner with experience of working within neuropsychiatry
- Extensive experience of working with a wide variety 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, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary 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 specialist clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Communication and relationship skills
- Analytical and judgement skills
- Planning and organisational skills
Special knowledge
Essential
- Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a longer term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty
- Well developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions in brain injury and clinical neuropsychology
- Evidence of significant post doctorate qualification and continued professional development
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
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve
- Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
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 clinical neuropsychology
- Qualification in supervision
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences or similar contributions
Experience
Essential
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner with experience of working within neuropsychiatry
- Extensive experience of working with a wide variety 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, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary 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 specialist clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Communication and relationship skills
- Analytical and judgement skills
- Planning and organisational skills
Special knowledge
Essential
- Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a longer term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty
- Well developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions in brain injury and clinical neuropsychology
- Evidence of significant post doctorate qualification and continued professional development
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
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve
- Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
