Job summary
- Main area
- Applied/Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 001-PST016-0425-A
- Employer
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hafan Y Coed. University Hosptial of Llandough
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £75,405 - £86,885 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant Clinical /Neuropsychologist
Band 8c
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Board in the UK, employing over 16,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of 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 also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”. We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board’s Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic objectives; Putting People First, Providing Outstanding Quality, Delivering in the Right Places, and Acting for the Future. We have challenging times ahead, but we are confident that by tackling these challenges together, we can support people to live healthier lives and reduce the unfair differences in the prevalence of illness and health outcomes we see in our communities today. We aspire to deliver outstanding care and treatment for people when they need it, where they need it; care that compares well with the best in the world, but to do so, we need to transform how we deliver services over the next decade and beyond.
We are a values-driven organisation and out goals will only be realised if our values are at the heart of everything we do. Created by colleagues, patients and their families and carers, our values are:
· We are kind and caring
· We are respectful
· We have trust and integrity
· We take personal responsibility
OUR REGION:
Wales has much to offer with miles of stunning coastline, UNESCO world heritage sites and beautiful countryside. Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, has something for everyone. It 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, as well as charming towns including Penarth and Cowbridge. Those seeking more culture may find themselves drawn to the National Museum, St Fagan’s Museum of Welsh Life or the Millennium Centre, home of the Welsh National Opera. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
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 multi disciplinary team providing services to people who have acquired brain injury and complex mental health difficulties, their families and carers and 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 is part of the leadership role.
In addition, there is also a specific clinical element to this senior role. This is to provide clinical neuropsychological expertise and to work 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.
Main duties of the job
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 on the psychological care in this setting and being part of the neuropsychiatry management and decision making team for the service. The role includes providing direct clinical assessments and interventions, formulations, setting strategic direction, service development/improvement, working closely with our multidisciplinary staff, supervision/consultancy, education and research/audit.
The post holder would be expected to collaborate and work alongside other leads and managers to ensure all our services are of high quality and collaborate with 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 regionally, national groups and specialist commissioners.
Extensive and substantial knowledge and experience of applying psychology in complex medical settings is essential. Direct clinical experience, or demonstrable transferable skills, in the application of clinical psychology within neuropsychiatry services and/or working with complex mental health issues, neurological/brain injury and damage is essential.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 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 “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”, and our vision 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 our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital. Cardiff.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice, particularly clinical neuropsychology
- Qualification in supervision
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences or similar contributions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner with experience of working within neuropsychiatry
- Extensive 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.
- Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions
- Demonstrable evidence of specialist clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Communication and relationship skills
- Analytical and judgement skills
- Planning and organisational skills
Special knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a longer term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty
- Well developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions in brain injury and clinical neuropsychology
- Evidence of significant post doctorate qualification and continued professional development
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Respect for users of services and their carers
- Commitment to working collaboratively with users of services and their care partners to develop and improve services
- Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve
- Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Clare Quinn
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist & HoS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02921 825789
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