Job summary
We are looking to recruit to the General Paediatric Psychology Service within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB). Our service aims to ensure the systematic provision of a comprehensive, specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to babies, children and young people with long term health conditions and their families.
You will be working alongside an experienced team of Practitioner Psychologists, providing services to babies, children and young people with long term health conditions and their families in CTMUHB. This post will involve working from several sites across the UHB footprint.
Main duties of the job
We provide specialist, psychological assessments and interventions for patients referred to the general paediatric psychology service, informed by modern evidence based psychological professional knowledge.
You will be required to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the General Paediatric psychology service.
To lead, conduct and supervise audit and research, and to develop and evaluate novel clinical and psychological programmes, as a major job responsibility; and towork as a member of the General Paediatric psychology Service, contributing to the activities and developments of the team.
In addition, you will be required to participate appropriately in the professional activities of the Clinical Health Psychology specialty, the CTMUHB Health Psychology Service and the South Wales Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology; to develop up to date understanding and experience of professional issues and current NHS strategy in Clinical Health Psychology and in General Paediatric psychology Services in particular.
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable at Level 3 Speaking/Listening. This doesn't mean you have to be 'fluent' or be able to write long reports in Welsh; it just means being hold to simple conversations with patient. Have a look at the 'Croeso Candidate!' booklet attached for more information
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
Clinical
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and families referred to the General Paediatric psychology Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children and families and others involved in the care.
- Communicates highly complex condition-related information to children, young people and their families. Such communication may take place in highly emotive situations, where, due to their physical condition, psychological state of mind or strained relationships, there is the potential for highly distressed, antagonistic or hostile reactions. Managing such sensitive communication challenges could take place within the context of acute care wards, outpatient clinics or patients own homes.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a childs and families difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the child and families problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families within the General Paediatric psychology Service.
- To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To take part in joint assessment with consultant medical doctors, clinical specialist nurses, specialist physiotherapists and occupational therapists, as part of the multidisciplinary teams, and in regard to joint work with more complex cases.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To ensure that all team members have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager).
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multi-disciplinary staffs psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant clinical psychologists.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and Service Evaluation
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
- To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Communications and Working Relationships
- Required to work closely with:
- Head of Services.
- Heads of specialisms, colleagues within specialisms and other psychologists locally and nationally.
- Other members within the teams in which the post holder is working e.g. nursing staff, physiotherapists, GPs, pharmacists.
- Other consultants and referrers in any of the services to which the post holder is associated.
- Other agencies to which referrals might be made e.g. social services, community mental health team.
- Required to liaise with:
- Associated organisations, both locally and nationally e.g. the British Psychological Society, and associated projects to which patients can be referred locally.
- Specialist interest groups within psychology and pain management e.g. The South Wales Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology.
- Effective communication skill, emotional robustness and capacity for concentration to cope and work effectively with stress (in self and others) when working with people who might be in distressing situations e.g. coping with pain, a chronic illness or having been recently diagnosed with a chronic illness.
- To be skilled in, and able to, demonstrate effective clinical judgement in managing distressing and uncertain circumstances e.g. managing the risk of suicide.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and families referred to the General Paediatric psychology Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children and families and others involved in the care.
- Communicates highly complex condition-related information to children, young people and their families. Such communication may take place in highly emotive situations, where, due to their physical condition, psychological state of mind or strained relationships, there is the potential for highly distressed, antagonistic or hostile reactions. Managing such sensitive communication challenges could take place within the context of acute care wards, outpatient clinics or patients own homes.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a childs and families difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the child and families problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families within the General Paediatric psychology Service.
- To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To take part in joint assessment with consultant medical doctors, clinical specialist nurses, specialist physiotherapists and occupational therapists, as part of the multidisciplinary teams, and in regard to joint work with more complex cases.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To ensure that all team members have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager).
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multi-disciplinary staffs psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant clinical psychologists.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and Service Evaluation
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
- To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Communications and Working Relationships
- Required to work closely with:
- Head of Services.
- Heads of specialisms, colleagues within specialisms and other psychologists locally and nationally.
- Other members within the teams in which the post holder is working e.g. nursing staff, physiotherapists, GPs, pharmacists.
- Other consultants and referrers in any of the services to which the post holder is associated.
- Other agencies to which referrals might be made e.g. social services, community mental health team.
- Required to liaise with:
- Associated organisations, both locally and nationally e.g. the British Psychological Society, and associated projects to which patients can be referred locally.
- Specialist interest groups within psychology and pain management e.g. The South Wales Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology.
- Effective communication skill, emotional robustness and capacity for concentration to cope and work effectively with stress (in self and others) when working with people who might be in distressing situations e.g. coping with pain, a chronic illness or having been recently diagnosed with a chronic illness.
- To be skilled in, and able to, demonstrate effective clinical judgement in managing distressing and uncertain circumstances e.g. managing the risk of suicide.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working children in paediatric settings.
- 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
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Experience of working in multi-professional teams.
Desirable
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions e.g. nursing, occupational therapy.
Qualities
Essential
- Is enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Recognition of the need to communicate well with patients and families and also as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the role.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Competence in keyboard skills and using a range of software.
- Demonstrates good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Other
Essential
- Ability to be mobile between CTMUHB sites/centres and wider, travelling in a timely manner.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working children in paediatric settings.
- 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
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Experience of working in multi-professional teams.
Desirable
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions e.g. nursing, occupational therapy.
Qualities
Essential
- Is enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Recognition of the need to communicate well with patients and families and also as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the role.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Competence in keyboard skills and using a range of software.
- Demonstrates good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Other
Essential
- Ability to be mobile between CTMUHB sites/centres and wider, travelling in a timely manner.
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).
