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Are you a motivated, passionate & caring individual looking to take the next step in their career path in the beautiful heart of the Welsh Valleys?
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Psychologist to join us as we move towards transforming our Rehabilitation & Recovery Services.
The post will be split between Pinewood House Rehabilitation Unit in Treorchy & the Outreach Recovery team (ORT) at Kier Hardie Health Park in Merthyr. Pinewood House is a 16-bed mixed-sex setting offering step-down from inpatient to community settings.
ORT offers flexible community-based interventions to those who are often disengaged from traditional services.
The post holder will help transform services by providing psychological perspectives; with key values including a trauma informed & co-produced approach to complex needs. The psychologist’s role is highly valued and well supported, with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration to ensure holistic care.
The psychology rehabilitation team includes a Consultant, Principle & Assistant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical/CAAP Trainees & Undergraduate Students. CTM psychology services are developing enhanced communication across specialties & service-wide conferences to share good practice & innovations.
In line with our values, potential applicants are asked to prepare accordingly for the involvement of Lived Experience Experts in the interview process.
The post holder will help transform services by providing psychological perspectives to individuals and the organisation. Key values include a trauma informed and co-produced approach to complex needs, prioritising teamwork staff support and development. The psychologist’s role is highly valued, with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration
As a psychologist within these teams, you will play a key role in formulating and delivering evidence-informed interventions tailored to individual needs, while also contributing to risk management, service development, and staff training. You will work closely with psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapist and support workers to ensure holistic care. Please see the job description and person specification for full outline of the role.
Welsh language speaking or the ability to learn is desirable for this post. Both Welsh and English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We Live By Our Core Values
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Laura Freeman Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: laura.freeman@wales.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01443443443
Principal Clinical Psychologist / Prif Seicolegydd Clinigol
Julian Pitt
Julian.Pitt@wales.nhs.uk
07855744270
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