Job overview
There is an exciting opportunity for someone to join and lead the Welsh Centre for Burns & Plastics psychology team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced psychologist to join our team of 3 other practitioner psychologists and an Assistant Psychologist. The post holder will lead the team, providing professional leadership and support to the psychologists working in adult and paediatric plastic surgery psychology, and will lead the Burns psychology service. The Burns unit is part of the South West Burns Clinical Network and the Welsh Centre in Morrison works with patients across the lifespan, with the most severely injured adult patients from across the network being cared for here, and the most severely injured children being cared for initially in Bristol. The Burns and Plastics Psychology team work across both inpatient and outpatient settings, including Intensive Care for adult burns patients.
This post is offered as an Annex 21 position as set out within the NHS Wales Terms & Conditions of Employment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the psychology team, providing professional line management, clinical supervision and ensuring governance across all aspects of the service. The post holder will have the opportunity to work clinically as part of the Burns Unit, working both directly and indirectly with patients across the lifespan. The psychology service is respected and valued across the MDT, and there are opportunities to work with colleagues through regular clinical MDT consults, goal planning and bespoke work with individual patients. The post holder will support the Burns unit in meeting the National Burns Care Standards, and will be the psychology link for the South West Clinical Network.
The service and staff have excellent links with SBU psychology department, with Child Psychology and with other psychologists working in physical health settings. There are frequent opportunities for networking and for CPD. There are also good links to Swansea and Cardiff universities with opportunities for hosting MSc students and DClinPsy trainees.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post is available to practitioner psychologists with appropriate experience and competencies to work at Consultant (8c) level. Please see the attached Job Plan and Person Specification (JP&PS) for more details. The generic JP&PS will be tailored to the specific role and requirements of the service.
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
1. Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
2. Attendance at several taught post-graduate course and pursuit of supervised self- directed study in specialist field of the defined area. Substantial experience of application of this knowledge
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Ability to manage Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within the defined Psychology Service
4. Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised postqualification expertise and experience within the field
Desirable criteria
5. Formal leadership development training Experience of Committee work /special interest
Aptitude and abilities
Essential criteria
6. 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 ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
7. Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable