Job Overview
Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Deputy Head of BCUHB Psychology and Psychological Services in Physical Health and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Inherited Metabolic Disorders. This senior leadership role supports the strategic, operational and professional leadership of a growing psychology workforce delivering high‑quality psychological care across physical health settings in BCUHB. The postholder will work closely with the Head of Specialty to shape service development and strategic planning, strengthen clinical governance, and provide clinical supervision and line management to colleagues within the department.
Main Duties of the Job
* Provide psychological leadership across the department.
* Join the BCUHB Inherited Metabolic Disease Team at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
* Develop and lead a highly specialist, integrated clinical psychology service for patients in North Wales with rare inherited metabolic conditions.
* Collaborate closely with metabolic consultants, specialist nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.
* Undertake research and teaching in this field.
* Speak Welsh is desirable; English and Welsh speakers are welcomed to apply.
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Good Honours degree in Psychology and eligibility for BPS Chartered status.
* Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Post‑graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent if trained before 1996) accredited by the 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, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment, and research design including complex multivariate data analysis.
* 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 academic or professional journals and/or books.
Experience
Essential Criteria
* Appropriate experience as a qualified Clinical Psychologist, including substantial supervised post‑qualification expertise within the Health Clinical Psychology field.
* Sufficient experience to demonstrate competence for entrance into Consultant Grade as assessed by up to two BPS/DoH National Assessors.
* Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision in Health Clinical Psychology.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential Criteria
* Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex and sensitive information effectively.
* Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships.
* Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary settings.
* Ability to prepare and present clinical and academic material for lecturing and training purposes.
* Ability to make clinical and service‑related judgments involving highly complex facts requiring analysis 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.
Desirable Criteria
* Ability to speak Welsh.
Values
* Able to demonstrate a range of qualities essential to the role.
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