Main area Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist Grade Band 8b Contract 3 years (Fixed term until End of March 2027) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 001-PST029-0424
Employer Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Employer type NHS Site St David's Hospital Town Cardiff Salary £59,857 - £69,553 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/05/2024 23:59
Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8b
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 14,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is“Caring for People, Keeping People Well”,and ourvision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal.Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is ourchance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.
We are a teaching Health Board with close links to the university sector, together we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals, while working on research that will unlock the cures for today’s illnesses.
OUR REGION:
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital has something for everyone. At its heart sits Cardiff Castle with 2000 years of history. Nearby stands the Principality Stadium, home of the Welsh Rugby Union and host to International sporting events. Cardiff also boasts a variety of theatres and live music venues. Furthermore, there’s CardiffBay with a range of new apartments, bars and restaurants.
The Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline, including the famed Glamorgan Heritage Coast. Cowbridge, Penarth and Llantwit Major are some of the charming neighbouring towns.
Those seeking more culture may find themselves drawn to theNationalMuseum, St Fagans MuseumofWelsh Lifeor the Millennium Centre, home of the Welsh National Opera.
Whether city life or rural living, Cardiffand the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This post is fixed term for 3 years due to current funding.
For the first time, Cardiff and Vale Local Authority, in partnership with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, have jointly developed a team to support and sit alongside young people and their families who are experiencing high levels of distress. The team is called Goleudy which is the welsh word for Lighthouse - a beacon of hope. Goleudy's core values are: Trauma-Informed, Formulation Driven and Attachment Focused. The team asks ‘what has happened to them?’ as opposed to: ‘what is wrong with them?’ This understanding will determine how the team supports young people and their families at times of high distress.
Goleudy sits alongside and under the umbrella of the Enfys team. Enfys are a well-established team working with children who have experienced developmental trauma, particularly children who are looked after. The Enfys and Goleudy Teams hope to co-locate in 2024.
The team consists of Graduate Mental Health Workers, Occupational Therapists, a Clinical Psychologist and team members from Education and the Local Authority. Difference will be celebrated within the team through the promotion of a culture of learning together.
Building, maintaining and growing relationships is key to the team. Emphasis will be placed on working alongside and in partnership of the existing services within the local authority (social work & education) and health systems.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit an 8b Practitioner Psychologist to lead an exciting and dynamic new service to help young people who may end up in hospital due to high levels of distress and a history of developmental trauma.
The Psychologist will be responsible for leading clinically on the delivery of the service, supervision, training, and creating meaningful and impactful change. The Lead will be responsible for co-ordinating the training of Local Authority staff employed to support the young people, and to lead on working partnerships.
The post holder would lead on service development and build strong partnerships with other leaders in the wider Child Psychology network and beyond.
This post will be supervised by the Service Lead for Enfys.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply. We also warmly welcome applicants who identify as minority ethnic or global majority.
Working for our organisation
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is “Caring for People, Keeping People Well”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population’s health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Detailed job description and main 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
Experience
* Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working with people with gender dysphoria.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
* Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
* Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
* Experience of working with service users as co-producers
Qualifications
* Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS.
* Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
* HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
* Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.
Skills
* Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively, requiring empathy and reassurance, in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
* Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
* Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development.
* Ability to plan and organise a range of clinical or service-related activities and programmes
* Ability to implement agreed policies and strategic long-term service developments.
Special Knowledge
* Formal Training and supervision of other psychologists.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
* Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
* Ability to identify and provide support to carers and staff.
* Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic presentations.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation.
* Well-developed specialist knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, and the application of specialised psychological therapies related to the needs of people with gender dysphoria.
* Specialist knowledge of psychometric test construction, development, validation, administration and clinical interpretation of the results.
* Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
Other
* Requirement to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing and traumatic situations.
* Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner
* Formal training in assessment
* Formal training in breakaway techniques
* Must be capable of working within organisational policies, and be accountable for own professional actions
* Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context.
Personal Qualities
* Respect for users of services and their carers
* Willingness to supervise trainee clinical psychologists and other qualified clinical/counselling psychologists working in similar settings
* Commitment to and interest in working with people with gender dysphoria.
* Commitment to working collaboratively with people living with gender dysphoria and their carers to develop and improve services.
* Willingness to work as part of a team
* Ability to work independently.
* Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal.
* Willingness to participate in continuing professional development & psychologists working in similar team settings.
* Ability to communicate clearly and with sensitivity – verbally and in writing.
* Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload.
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where diversity is celebrated. We aim to create a working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential no matter their disability, sex, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity or marriage and civil partnership status.We are keen to break down barriers in the UHB, and encourage applications from under-represented groups.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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