Job summary
Hywel Dda University Health Board is located in West Wales in an area of outstanding beauty. It covers the National Park coastline of Pembrokeshire and rolling hills of rural Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. The area consists of hamlets, villages, market towns as well as some larger towns. It is an ideal place to live and work.
Our specialist child and adolescence mental health service (sCAMHS) has an exciting opportunity for a permanent full time Senior UKCP accredited Systemic and Family Psychotherapist (B8a) to join our service. This new role will ensure our well-developed and experienced Systemic Psychotherapist and Systemic Practitioners have a clinical lead who will offer operational management, supervision and training across the Hywel Dda footprint, as well as continuing clinically to support children and families accessing sCAMHS support.
The Post Holder will join a wider communities of practice with varied opportunities to develop their skills through joint working, research and leading the reflective team within the wider family therapy clinic.
Whether this feels like it is the next step up in your career, or you would like to move to a beautiful part of West Wales, we are interested in hearing from you.
Main duties of the job
The role has the following main components:
Clinical Supervision - Responsible, as the senior supervisor, for ensuring and providing clinical supervision for band 7 systemic and family therapists. Support the appropriate training of associate systemic and family therapists and training of Low Intensity Psychological Therapy Practitioners, across services.
Operational Management - responsible for day to day caseload and operational management of band 7 accredited systemic and family therapists and associate systemic and family therapists.
Consultation - To regularly provide advice, systemic consultation and training on client's psychological care to colleagues within the wider service.
Clinical practice - As a senior systemic and family therapist, to provide a qualified specialist systemic and family therapy service to clients, across the three counties. Ensuring suitable internal CPD events are held to meet the requirements for all accredited systemic and family therapists. Leading on CPD workshops for Systemic and Family practitioners. To support the S-CAMHS management duty rota in line with service demands. To work autonomously, with freedom to act, within professional guidelines and the overall framework of service policies, procedures and strategy. To be clinically accountable for service delivery within the service area. To implement the agreed service development and improvement within the service area.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on 26/10/2022
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on 26/10/2022
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy - Qualification equivalent to Doctoral level
- To be registered with the UKCP - United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
- Evidence of robust knowledge of the methodology of systemic and family therapy
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health i.e. Children's Act, Safeguarding Procedures
- Additional further study and specialist training in systematic and family therapy
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Desirable
- Supervisor's qualification
- Qualification in an additional psychological therapy
- Group work certificate
- Evidence of having completed a recognised professional health or social care qualification that led to registration and specifically included knowledge of models of Psychopathology
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, etc
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in children's mental health service
- Substantial, post accreditation experience, of providing specialist systemic and family therapy assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and primary care
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly, emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of teaching and training
- Extensive, post accreditation, experience of providing clinical supervision in systemic and family therapy, post accreditation
- Evidence of robust application of the therapeutic model and strong fidelity to the model
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts
- Experience of family based treatment for eating disorders, e.g. Maudsley Model
- Experience of delivering multi-family group therapy
- Demonstrate further specialist training or experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist therapist over a minimum of two year
- Experience of operational management
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy - Qualification equivalent to Doctoral level
- To be registered with the UKCP - United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
- Evidence of robust knowledge of the methodology of systemic and family therapy
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health i.e. Children's Act, Safeguarding Procedures
- Additional further study and specialist training in systematic and family therapy
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Desirable
- Supervisor's qualification
- Qualification in an additional psychological therapy
- Group work certificate
- Evidence of having completed a recognised professional health or social care qualification that led to registration and specifically included knowledge of models of Psychopathology
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, etc
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in children's mental health service
- Substantial, post accreditation experience, of providing specialist systemic and family therapy assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and primary care
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly, emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of teaching and training
- Extensive, post accreditation, experience of providing clinical supervision in systemic and family therapy, post accreditation
- Evidence of robust application of the therapeutic model and strong fidelity to the model
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts
- Experience of family based treatment for eating disorders, e.g. Maudsley Model
- Experience of delivering multi-family group therapy
- Demonstrate further specialist training or experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist therapist over a minimum of two year
- Experience of operational management
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).
