Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
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.
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Job overview
Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist-Early Intervention Psychosis
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Early Intervention Psychosis (EIP) Team.
We are a small but friendly team who would welcome the addition of a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to share their expertise's. The EIP Team is multi-professional and covers the whole of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
The postholder will be integral to enable the team to offer a psychologically informed EIP service and specifically in providing and overseeing the delivery of evidenced based psychological interventions.
The post sits within the broader Adult Specialised Services Directorate and will be supported by the Directorate Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Main duties of the job
The provide and oversee the delivery of evidence based psychologically informed care.
The postholder will also provide supervision and training to other disciplines in evidence based approaches and will facilitate team formulation meetings.
The postholder will help evaluate service developments and provide regular report to management.
The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
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 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.
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 and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) including specifically, neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by Health and Care Professions Council, HCPC.
- Recognized training in supervision of trainee psychologists.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the HCPC or British Psychological Society.
- Knowledge and experience of models, evidence and practice relating to Early Psychosis.
- Completion of suitable post-qualification supervised clinical experience with specialised client group(s).
- Willingness to undertake specialist training in Evidence based psychological interventions for psychosis, if not already in possession of such training.
- Specific training in evidence based interventions for psychosis.
- Family intervention in Psychosis.
- Cognitive therapy for Psychosis.
- Specific training in trauma-focused approaches, either individual or group
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience in Care and Treatment planning as defined under the Mental Health Measure, Wales.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clinical presentations, across the whole life course.
- Experience of working with service users presenting with early psychosis.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts addressing issues of socio-economic deprivation or marginalization.
- Experience of working with risky clients as well as seeing clients in inpatient and community settings and working in the least restrictive environment.
- Experience of working with service users who present with high risk of self-harm or are vulnerable to exploitation.
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions (e.g. nursing, occupational therapy).
- Experience of multi-professional management within teams or services.
- Experience of facilitating team formulation meetings
- Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
Aptitude & Abilities
Essential criteria- Multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing risk management plans.
- Confidence/experience in evaluation of outcomes and service developments.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Demonstrates good interpersonal skills.
- Understands equality issues.
- Can communicate competently and effectively with clients, relatives and fellow staff.
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Having the skills to work within multi-professional, joint-agency settings.
- Emotional resilience to work with highly traumatised clients and their distressing material
- Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership.
Other
Essential criteria- Ability to travel in a timely manner across the geographical area covered by CTMUHB.
If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.