Job summary
Employer heading
High Intensity Specialist Psychological Therapy Practitioner
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
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
Are you a n experienced Psychological Therapist looking for diversity in your clinical work? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate Band 7 therapist to join our thriving Older Person’s Psychology Team within CTMUHB, on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will work across localities within CTMUHB, within Older Person’s Mental Health, experiencing the breadth of clinical work that the specialty has to offer.
The CTM UHB Older Person’s Psychology Team consists of a supportive and passionate team of colleagues, including both Clinical and Counselling Psychologists. We’re a team who embraces change and opportunity, and are currently in an exciting period of service development. The successful candidate will be well supported and mentored by senior colleagues, and provided with a range of opportunities for career development.
The wider Psychology service within CTM UHB has undergone exciting developments in recent months and is a thriving department to sit within. We hold regular conferences throughout the year, where psychology teams across CTM UHB come together to share good practice and innovations. We have close links with local training programmes and provide regular training and placement opportunities to Trainees.
Main duties of the job
CTM UHB Older Person’s Mental Health services are currently divided into five areas: Bridgend, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and Merthyr – each area consists of an Older Person’s Community Mental Health Team (OPCMHT) and Memory Assessment Service (MAS) and feeds into the Older Person’s Mental Health inpatient wards within the health board. The successful candidate for this post will be based within OPCMHT and MAS, working across localities, depending on service need.
The post holder will sit within well-established multi-disciplinary teams, providing specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to the team. This role provides an opportunity for a Band 7 Therapist to work within OPCMHT, providing a high quality psychological therapy service to the teams and locality population. This primarily includes providing a psychological assessment and therapy service to older adults under secondary care mental health services (Part 2 of the Mental Health Measure, 2010), as well as consultation and training as required for staff within the wider OPCMHT. The role will sit within CMHTs, and the successful candidate will provide psychological therapies for CMHT clients.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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 tea
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.
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
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Master’s Level qualification, or the equivalent level of highly developed specialist skills, knowledge and experience.
- Training in CBT and 1 other psychotherapeutic model.
- Registered with a recognised professional body e.g. HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Training in a model of clinical supervision.
- Knowledge and experience of research in a field relevant to post.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
- Experience of working in multi-professional teams or services.
- Experience of working with older people with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
Values
Essential criteria
- Commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
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
- Andy Lodwick
- Job title
- Lead Psychological Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443001
- Additional information
ext 75409
Informal visits/discussions are welcomed.
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