Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 001-PST026-0625
- Employer
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital of Wales
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £89,491 - £103,203 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Head of Specialty
Band 8d
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
Leading a specialist psychology service; carrying a specialist and complex caseload; supporting and supervising other psychologists, and other professions providing psychological care/therapy; providing advice and consultancy to professionals/staff delivering psychological care/therapy; line management and clinical leadership of relevant teams, services, practitioners, assistants, trainees, students from own and/or other professions; undertakes/leads service development and improvement activities, audit and R&D; assess need, designs and provides skills teaching, training, and lecturing.
Main duties of the job
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; 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 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 in the supporting documents.
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 Children, Young People and Families
- Qualification in supervision
- 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 psychologist within Children’s Services.
- Extensive experience of working with a wide range 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 within the context of a multidisciplinary 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 significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including individual supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
- Experience in audit and evaluation of clinical services.
- Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of application of psychology within different contexts (e.g. cultural).
- Experience of working with NHS planning forums.
- Experience of leading a therapy team.
- Experience of conducting research of a high a standard.
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.
- Ability to manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialty issues.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to interpret general clinical, professional and organisational policies and to use own initiative to establish how they should be applied within the area of specialty.
- Ability to design and implement policy for Children and young people’s services and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity.
- Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a long term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty.
Special Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well-developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies related to the needs of Children and Young People
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical / counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, psychological therapies and their application. Including highly developed knowledge of psychology relevant to people with severe and enduring and complex mental health, dementia and those “at risk” and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical / counselling psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the service.
- Up-to-date knowledge of NHS management, service development and policy implementation in Wales-wide services.
- Knowledge of any national service guidelines for the area of specialty and its implications for clinical practice and professional management in relation to mental health services for Children and Young People.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
- Knowledge of local NHS structures.
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.
- Leadership and management qualities.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
- Ability to negotiate within the NHS and with external bodies.
- Ability to motivate and influence people to deliver a high-quality service.
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to hold the stress for others.
- Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material.
- Ability to display exceptional skills in the respectful, therapeutic handling of clients.
Desirable criteria
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a desire to continue to develop expertise in the area of specialty.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner.
- Must be capable of working within organisational policies, and be accountable for own professional actions.
- Ability to use standard and specialist software.
- Formal training in assessment.
- Ability to use consultation in order to reflect upon one’s clinical practice.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context.
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
- Robert Kidd
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02921824500
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