Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 8b Clinical Psychologist to become part of the leadership team for an Intensive Therapeutic Placement support service. This innovative new service is the start of a new collaborative approach for Bridgend Council and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, which focuses on making a difference to children and young people's lives, addressing placement sufficiency, and supporting our carers by working within an established evidence-based therapeutic model adopting a collaborative, pro-active, and inclusive approach to working with children, young people and their families to enable better outcomes.
This role is fundamental to the delivery of this service it will strengthen and improve services in the short, medium and longer-term delivering the right type of bespoke support and interventions at the right time via a skilled multi agency team to work intensively with staff/carers and other agencies around them, enabling us to keep children closer to home and form local support networks in their community which will no doubt benefit them into the future
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and strategic leadership in the development and delivery of trauma informed care to care experienced children with complex needs in Bridgend. To lead on the support the development of training, supervision and ongoing reflective practice culture within the service. To provide and advise on specialist psychological formulations and interventions for children and young people who care experienced within Bridgend and present with multiple complex mental health problems and are significantly socially disadvantaged. This includes face to face work with young people and their carers/families, consultative and supervisory work with therapeutic support team staff and other members of the social care a health team supporting the service, liaison work with young people's Social Workers, Teachers and extended professional networks. It involves conducting psychological assessments and the delivery of appropriate therapeutic interventions for a range of complex difficulties experienced by care experienced children.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months until 31st March 2025 due to funding. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh 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
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
Essential
- Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS
- Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the HCPC - or equivalent if trained before 1996
- HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist - Clinical Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions
- Additional training in attachment related interventions with children and/or young people
- Relevant additional specialist training or knowledge and experience in forensic area
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist in an area relevant to this post.
- Experience of utilising legislation relevant to services managing risk, safeguarding and sharing information between agencies e.g. Children's Act, Mental Health Act, Capacity Act.
- Experience in working with children and young people with attachment difficulties and trauma
Desirable
- Experience of leading service change and development
- Experience of working within CAMH service for clients with complex needs and/or in youth justice systems.
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 Psychology accredited by the HCPC - or equivalent if trained before 1996
- HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist - Clinical Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions
- Additional training in attachment related interventions with children and/or young people
- Relevant additional specialist training or knowledge and experience in forensic area
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist in an area relevant to this post.
- Experience of utilising legislation relevant to services managing risk, safeguarding and sharing information between agencies e.g. Children's Act, Mental Health Act, Capacity Act.
- Experience in working with children and young people with attachment difficulties and trauma
Desirable
- Experience of leading service change and development
- Experience of working within CAMH service for clients with complex needs and/or in youth justice systems.
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).
