Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 100-PST026-0725
- Employer
- Hywel Dda University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gwili Centre, Glangwil General Hospital
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Salary
- £56,514 - £63,623 per annum (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/08/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist S-CAMHS
Band 8a
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit a full time Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to one of our busy and friendly S-CAMHS locality teams in Hywel Dda University Health Board. The locality team covers the Carmarthen area and the post is based at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
Hywel Dda has four S-CAMHS MDTs across its footprint, and there is a clinical psychologist based in each of them. The locality teams link with specialised services and with colleagues in the primary part of the service. All of the psychologists in S-CAMHS sit within a wider Psychology Department which includes psychologists in Perinatal Mental Health, Early Intervention for Psychosis and the Neurodevelopmental Team, which creates a diverse and supportive psychology workforce with strong links.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be responsible for the provision of Psychology within the multi-disciplinary team, including the supervision of Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
They will be part of a friendly multi-disciplinary team which values its Psychology colleagues.
Clinical duties will include completing Choice, Partnership and Specific work, within the framework of the Mental Health Measure (2010). Special interests are encouraged whenever possible and there are regularly opportunities to be involved in new service developments and training.
There are strong links with our specialised services within S-CAMHS eg DBT Service, Eating Disorders Service, Forensic. We also have strong links with the South Wales D Clin Psy Clinical Psychology training course.
Working for our organisation
Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.
We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.
We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.
Our services are provided in:
- Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
- Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
- Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
- 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
- Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on 26/08/2025.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained before 1996) in clinicalor counselling psychology, including psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Knowledge of psychometrics, appropriate administration and limitations.
- Post Practitioner Psychologist qualification training in at least one area relevant to the post.
Desirable criteria
- Post Practitioner Psychologist qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Additional specialist training
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment in specific difficult to treat groups or complex presentations (eg mental health and learning disability, substance misuse).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment (post D Clin Psy qualification) incorporating psychometrics and cognitive assessment
- Post Practitioner Psychologist qualification experience of assessing risk in young people with mental health problems.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Post Practitioner Psychologist qualification experience of working with children and young people and/or mental health.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within S-CAMHS.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
- Flexible approach to needs of the service including working evenings and weekends.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
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
- Andrea Mowthorpe
- Job title
- Lead for Psychology - SCAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01437 773774
- Additional information
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