Lead Consultant Practitioner Psychologist
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Swansea Bay University Health Board reserve the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Job overview
Consultant Practitioner Psychologist Band 8c
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic practitioner psychologist to lead and further develop a high quality, responsive and accessible Learning Disability (LD) psychology service within Swansea Bay University Healthboard.
The post holder will be welcomed into the broader Swansea Bay Mental Health and Learning Disability (MHLD) psychology department, and will be expected to play an active role in collaborating with other psychologists on joint projects and initiatives.The postholder will join a Consultant Lead Psychology team within our LD Division, with access to regular peer supervision CPD, reflective practice and service development work as well as having an ongoing programme of clinical and professional development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will professionally lead a team of psychologists and psychological therapists within the Cardiff and Vale hub area, ensuring that appropriate management structures and good clinical governance for the team is in place. They will support the Professional Lead for MHLD Psychology with recruitment to any additional, funded posts within the service area.Additionally, they will undertake direct and indirect clinical work, offering a range of psychological interventions to patients, their families and networks. They will work with the multidisciplinary Community Learning Disability Teams (CLDT) ensuring that service plans, developments and pathways are psychologically informed.
The lead psychologist will ensure systems are in place for reviewing and evaluating the service, and for ensuring good clinical governance across psychology. They will help to ensure other psychologists and psychological therapists have appropriate support and supervision in place and are enabled to develop their professional competencies and careers.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
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.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications / Knowledge
Essential criteria- Eligibility for BPS Chartered status. Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC Post-graduate Doctorate in Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS, Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees
- Record of publications in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Pre- or postdoctoral training in a specialist area of learning disabilities
Experience
Essential criteria- Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised post- qualification expertise and experience with learning disabilities
- Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision
- Experience of teaching and training
- Formal leadership development training
- Experience of Committee work /special interest Fora
Apptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria- Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
- Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings
- Welsh Language Skills
Other
Essential criteria- Ability to initiate discrete policy changes or service developments which impact beyond the Learning Disability Psychology Service
- Ability to adhere to BPS and HCPC Professional Guidelines and be accountable for own professional actions and decisions at all times
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and applications are welcomed from persons with disabilities. A disability will not prejudice your application. If you are unable to submit your application in the requested format because of a disability please contact the Recruitment Team, who will agree a more suitable way for you to apply.All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification will be invited to interview.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK.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.