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Job summary

Main area
Psychology in Medical Services
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
001-PST012-0425-A
Employer
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Llandough Centre for Specialist Spinal and Neurorehabilitation
Town
Penarth
Salary
£63,150 - £73,379 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist - SCI Rehabilitation

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

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

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre, in partnership with the Psychology & Psychological Therapies Directorate, offers an exciting opportunity for a HCPC Registered Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist - Band 8b to to be part of a recently developed multi-disciplinary outreach team based in UHL. The development of this dedicated outreach service has enabled the Welsh centre to support people with complex spinal cord injury rehabilitation needs along the care pathway. This dedicated MDT provides input to DGH’s across Wales, advising on specialist care and supporting local clinical teams in the holistic management of people with highly complex needs. It has the scope to offer those people who have complex spinal rehabilitation needs across Wales and have difficulties attending clinics in Cardiff to be seen in their local community or even at home in a timely manner. This includes improving access to psychological interventions and services for people living with spinal cord injury along the care pathway.   

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

Psychological skills are highly valued within the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Service and have been part of the planning for this new service. There is an opportunity for providing and designing psychological care, for direct client work, work with families,  consultancy, staff-focussed interventions, innovation, service improvement/design, care pathway improvement, skills training and research/audit. In addition to the clinical and MDT roles, leadership of the psychological components of the dedicated outreach service is a key element of this post. This includes overseeing the other psychological roles/tasks within the service, consultation/supervision, and contributing to ideas for expansion and the future development of the service in collaboration with the lead consultant psychologist. 

The post will enhance the existing specialist spinal cord injury rehabilitation psychology service, which currently includes a lead consultant and principal practitioner psychologist. 

The post is 1.0wte, 37.5 hours per week. 

It is essential for this post to hold a Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent), to be a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling), and be eligible for Chartered Psychologist status with the BPS.  Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working with people with medical problems/physical disability.

Working for our organisation

This is an exciting time to join Cardiff & Vale UHB. The UHB has supported the development of psychological expertise in medical settings and there is a growing Clinical Health Psychology and Neuropsychology Specialty. The post-holder will join the newly established Neuro-Rehabilitation Psychology Department at Llandough and be based with colleagues working in both spinal cord injury rehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology. There is an active professional network for clinical psychologists in South Wales and you would be able to develop your professional, leadership, supervisory and clinical skills via CPD opportunities. 

We are looking for individuals who share our values; 

  • We care about people we serve and the people we work with. 
  • We trust and respect one another. 
  • We take personal responsibility. 
  • We act with integrity. 

Post holders will be expected at all times to behave in accordance with our values demonstrating commitment to the delivery of high quality services to patients. 

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Expressions of interest and visits are welcome. 

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

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 registered as a practitioner psychologist
Desirable criteria
  • Post doctoral training/ experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, particularly clinical health psychology/medical settings or transferable
  • Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist within clinical health psychology/medical settings or applicable transferable skills
  • 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.
  • 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

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • 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
  • Analytical and judgment skills as described on person specification
  • Planning and Organisational Skills as described on person specification

Special Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Formal training and supervision of other psychologists.
  • 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.
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation.
  • Specialist knowledge of psychometric test construction, development, validation, administration and clinical interpretation of the results.
Desirable criteria
  • Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to and interest in working with people within medical settings.
  • Commitment to working collaboratively with patients, their families/carers and staff to develop and improve services.
  • Willingness to work as part of a team.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and with sensitivity – verbally and in writing.
  • Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload

Other

Essential criteria
  • Computer literate
  • Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to speak Welsh and willing to use in a work context

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Fiona Senior
Job title
Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist, SCI Rehab.
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02921 827659
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