Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 3 years (Fixed term until End of March 2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 001-PST029-0424
- Employer
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St David's Hospital
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £59,857 - £69,553 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8b
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
As an organisation we strongly believe that it is vital our leaders exhibit the behaviours and values that we expect from all our staff.
We are a teaching Health Board with close links to the university sector, and together we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals, while working on research that will hopefully unlock the cures for today’s illnesses
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This post is fixed term for 3 years due to current funding.
For the first time, Cardiff and Vale Local Authority, in partnership with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, have jointly developed a team to support and sit alongside young people and their families who are experiencing high levels of distress. The team is called Goleudy which is the welsh word for Lighthouse - a beacon of hope. Goleudy's core values are: Trauma-Informed, Formulation Driven and Attachment Focused. The team asks ‘what has happened to them?’ as opposed to: ‘what is wrong with them?’ This understanding will determine how the team supports young people and their families at times of high distress.
Goleudy sits alongside and under the umbrella of the Enfys team. Enfys are a well-established team working with children who have experienced developmental trauma, particularly children who are looked after. The Enfys and Goleudy Teams hope to co-locate in 2024.
The team consists of Graduate Mental Health Workers, Occupational Therapists, a Clinical Psychologist and team members from Education and the Local Authority. Difference will be celebrated within the team through the promotion of a culture of learning together.
Building, maintaining and growing relationships is key to the team. Emphasis will be placed on working alongside and in partnership of the existing services within the local authority (social work & education) and health systems.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit an 8b Practitioner Psychologist to lead an exciting and dynamic new service to help young people who may end up in hospital due to high levels of distress and a history of developmental trauma.
The Psychologist will be responsible for leading clinically on the delivery of the service, supervision, training, and creating meaningful and impactful change. The Lead will be responsible for co-ordinating the training of Local Authority staff employed to support the young people, and to lead on working partnerships.
The post holder would lead on service development and build strong partnerships with other leaders in the wider Child Psychology network and beyond.
This post will be supervised by the Service Lead for Enfys.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply. We also warmly welcome applicants who identify as minority ethnic or global majority.
Working for our organisation
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving 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 working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is “Caring for People, Keeping People Well”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population’s health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, 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. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working with people with gender dysphoria.
- 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.
- Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers
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.
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively, requiring empathy and reassurance, in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
- Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
- Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development.
- Ability to plan and organise a range of clinical or service-related activities and programmes
- Ability to implement agreed policies and strategic long-term service developments.
Special Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Formal Training and supervision of other psychologists.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
- Ability to identify and provide support to carers and staff.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic presentations.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
- Well-developed specialist knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, and the application of specialised psychological therapies related to the needs of people with gender dysphoria.
- Specialist knowledge of psychometric test construction, development, validation, administration and clinical interpretation of the results.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
Other
Essential criteria
- Requirement to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing and traumatic situations.
- Computer literate
- Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner
- Formal training in assessment
- Formal training in breakaway techniques
- Must be capable of working within organisational policies, and be accountable for own professional actions
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Respect for users of services and their carers
- Willingness to supervise trainee clinical psychologists and other qualified clinical/counselling psychologists working in similar settings
- Commitment to and interest in working with people with gender dysphoria.
- Commitment to working collaboratively with people living with gender dysphoria and their carers to develop and improve services.
- Willingness to work as part of a team
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal.
- Willingness to participate in continuing professional development & psychologists working in similar team settings.
- Ability to communicate clearly and with sensitivity – verbally and in writing.
- Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload.
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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Libby Erin
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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