An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and extensively experienced Practitioner Psychologist to apply for a Lead Consultant post (Band 8c) within Clinical Neuropsychiatry. This is a regional service.
The role is to provide expert leadership, professional and clinical services, and join the multidisciplinary team providing services to people who have acquired brain injury and complex mental health difficulties, their families, and carers, requiring the specialist neuropsychiatry service.
The successful candidate would join the Neuropsychiatric management and Leadership Team, work collaboratively with the Psychology Head of Specialty, and be part of the Directorate of Mental Health Services for Older People and Neuropsychiatry and the Psychology and Psychological Therapies Directorate. All aspects of neuropsychiatry service design, development, and delivery are part of the leadership role.
There is also a specific clinical element to this senior role, providing clinical neuropsychological expertise and working closely with medical and multidisciplinary colleagues within the service.
The post is based at the University Hospital Llandough. It is a part-time (0.8 WTE/30 hours per week), permanent role.
The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital, Cardiff. The role involves leading psychological care, being part of the neuropsychiatry management and decision-making team, providing direct clinical assessments and interventions, formulations, setting strategic direction, service development and improvement, working closely with multidisciplinary staff, supervision/consultancy, education, and research/audit.
The post holder would collaborate with other leads and managers to ensure high-quality services and work alongside the Psychology Head of Specialty. The post holder will act as an expert advisor on clinical neuropsychiatry within the UHB, to the Directorate, local clinical services, and regional, national groups, and specialist commissioners.
Extensive knowledge and experience of applying psychology in complex medical settings are essential. Clinical experience or transferable skills in clinical psychology within neuropsychiatry services, working with complex mental health issues, neurological/brain injury, and damage are essential.
Ability to speak Welsh is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Serving over 500,000 people, we focus on health and care needs, working with partners to develop regional services. Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together," and our vision is to ensure equal opportunities for a healthy life. Our 10-year strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, aims to make our health board more sustainable.
For further details or informal visits, contact:
* Name: Dr. Clare Quinn
* Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist & HoS
* Email: clare.quinn@wales.nhs.uk
* Telephone: 02921 825789
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