Job Overview
We are delighted to announce that an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist within a well-established and innovative multidisciplinary team. The successful post holder will be directly accountable to the BCUHB Head of Health Psychology.
Team Overview
The Musculoskeletal Early Intervention Team is a unique service comprised of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon. The team accepts referrals for people with non-resolving musculoskeletal conditions who are at high risk of developing persistent pain, identified by significant psychosocial indicators. They use a combination of pain education, acceptance and commitment approaches, graded exposure to movement, and expert Physiotherapy, Occupational and Psychological interventions, achieving over 95 % success.
Main Duties
* Provide clinical responsibility, working directly and indirectly with patients, families and staff.
* Develop an assessment and consultation role within the team.
* Govern service, lead service development, innovation, audit and evaluation.
* Represent the team in the wider Health Community.
* Supervise junior clinical psychologists, including trainees, and support MDT members in psychological interventions.
Other Responsibilities
* Engage with relevant stakeholders and provide leadership within the clinical psychology service area.
* The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome.
Working for our organisation
BCUHB North Wales – the largest health organisation in Wales – provides primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000. The organisation values inclusive employment and supports equality, diversity and disability confidence.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
* Good Honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for BPS Chartered status.
* Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Post‑graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) accredited by BPS.
* Clinical supervision training for supervising doctoral trainees.
* Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes.
* Doctoral level advanced specialist knowledge of clinical psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation, research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical psychology.
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
Desirable Criteria
* Advanced training in research design and methodology.
* Record of publications in peer‑reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Experience
* Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist, including substantial supervised post‑qualification expertise and experience within the Health Clinical Psychology.
* Sufficient experience to demonstrate competence to satisfy the assessment requirements of up to two BPS/DoH National Assessors for entrance into Consultant Grade.
* Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision in the Health Clinical Psychology.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria:
* Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times.
* Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships.
* Ability to work collaboratively in multi‑disciplinary settings.
* Ability to prepare and present clinical and academic material for lecturing/training purposes.
* Ability to make clinical and service‑related judgements involving highly complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
* Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex clinical or service‑related activities and programmes, some of which may be long‑term.
* Ability to manage Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within the Clinical Psychology Service area.
Desirable criteria:
* Ability to speak Welsh.
Values
* Able to demonstrate a range of essential qualities.
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