Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young People's Mental Health Service
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday 30 hours a week)
- Job ref
- 110-PST031-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Children's Centre, Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £46,840 - £61,412 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist, CAMHS
Band 7/8a
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.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
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
We are excited to be expanding our Children and Young Person’s Community Mental Health Service and pleased to be able to offer this post working into the Bridgend locality CAMHS service.
We are looking for an energetic and motivated practitioner to join our friendly, dedicated and growing group of psychology and psychological professionals within CTMUHB and to work within a team who are passionate about working collaboratively with children, young people and families in the support and care they receive.
We would also welcome applications from soon to be, or newly qualified clinical psychologists looking to progress to a senior clinical psychology role. In this circumstance, the successful candidate would be appointed into a development post at Band 7 where a development plan will be agreed to identify and achieve the specific competencies that will be required to progress to Band 8a.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide specialist psychological assessment formulation and intervention for children, young people and families where there are moderate to severe levels of psychological distress. The delivery of interventions required will be holding a strong psychological voice within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and to assist and develop the thinking around complex children and young people accessing the CAMHS service.
The post holder will be expected to take opportunities to display leadership in relation to service development initiatives in addition to the delivery of specialist psychological therapies, provision of clinical supervision, complex case discussion, specialist consultation and teaching to other members of the MDT, to multiagency colleagues and to other psychology professionals as required.
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 the Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil ad Rhondda Cynon Taf area.
We live and work to our core values :
- We listen, learn, and improve.
- We treat everyone with respect.
- We all work together as one team.
We are a proud employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but also 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
Qualifictions and/or knowledge
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in Psychology, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society Professional qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working children with mental health conditions / experiencing psychological distress High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health. Strong ability to formulate using a developmental, contextual and systemic model, and having a strong appreciation of attachment and trauma upon development & presentation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Experience of working in multi-professional teams.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising Psychologists and Psychological Therapists from other professions (e.g. nursing, occupational therapy)
Values
Essential criteria
- Is enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work independently. Recognition of the need to communicate well with children & young people and families and also as a member of a multidisciplinary team. Respect, sensitivity and inclusivity to aspects of difference such as race, ethnicity, gender, ability and class. Committed to children’s rights and especially, to hearing children & young people’s voices and working in collaboration with them. Able to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the role.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Competence in keyboard skills and using a range of software. Demonstrates good interpersonal skills. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to be mobile within the Health Board and wider. Satisfactory DBS check.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
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
- Dr Rebecca Fisher
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443008
- Additional information
Dr Jael Hill
Directorate Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist
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