Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled, innovative and experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who will ensure clinically led, community focused services, serving the whole person's needs by delivering excellent care in a culture of openness through effective collaboration.

You will be joining vibrant and experienced MDTs including mental health nurses, support workers, occupational therapists, and psychiatrists. Psychology is valued greatly across the teams and across the wider CTMUHB mental health care pathway and the post holder will work closely with the established team of psychologists.

Within CTM UHB, we have a range of supervision opportunities for our Psychology workforce, including access to specialist supervision in CAT, EMDR , Schema Therapy, Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT), Systemic practice as well as supervision in integrative and creative therapy approaches. In addition, other models brought to the work include CFT, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), and ACT. We have a full DBT service, offering weekly consultation groups, and strong links with the Traumatic Stress Wales Regional Lead.

We are constantly evolving the ways in which we work and practice in order to meet the needs of the populations we serve, and highly value new ideas and creative ways of working.

CPD and training are encouraged.

Main duties of the job

Essentially, the post involves taking a lead in promoting psychological ways of understanding and working across adult mental health, including service development and application of evidence-based, trauma informed models within CMHT's and working with the most complex and long-term service users. This will include undertaking complex clinical work, developing and delivering group programmes, providing training, supervision, formulation and professional reflective spaces for colleagues in psychology and other disciplines. S/he/they will also be expected/supported to undertake further training in relevant specialist areas, monitor and evaluate service developments and provide regular reports as appropriate, and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

This post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

The 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.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTM UHB) provides primary, community, hospital and mental health services to people living in the County Boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf. These Boroughs consist of rich and varied communities and environments, including numerous towns, rivers, valleys, wooded hills and historic sites. Major cities, such as Cardiff, Newport and Swansea, can be easily accessed, along with land/mountain/seascapes and other places of outstanding natural beauty, such as the Brecon Beacons and large parts of the Heritage Coastline.

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.