Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST043-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maritime Resource Centre
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £75,405 - £86,885 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Trauma Lead
Band 8c
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 have an exciting opportunity for a new lifespan focused trauma lead post within CTM UHB. The post holder will join a small team, working closely with a highly specialised psychological therapist, and administrator.
Remit of the role will include representing the UHB nationally as the CTM Traumatic Stress Pathway Lead and contribute to and apply national legislative frameworks and policies with regards to psychological trauma, and trauma informed care. The role will include the strategic development of trauma informed pathways within the UHB and offering consultation to services with regards to complex cases, and client groups across the lifespan. The post sits within the broader specialised services directorate and will be supported by the directorate lead consultant psychologist.
Main duties of the job
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
This role requires the role holder to provide clinical leadership to the Traumatic Stress Pathway within CTM UHB and professional advice and support across wider services.
The role holder will be involved in the strategic future planning for trauma informed care and pathways across the lifespan in CTMUHB and will represent CTMUHB in national discussions.
The role holder will be responsible for establishing systems for monitoring the performance of the traumatic stress pathway.
The role holder will be responsible for ensuring effective joint working and liaison with other services and agencies within the CTMUHB area.
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 three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but 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
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Honours Degree in Psychology. Eligibility for BPS Chartered status. Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner . Psychologist Post-graduate Doctorate in Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
- Formal training in clinical supervision
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in context of Trauma Stress Wales.
- Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision (e.g. EMDR supervisor, DDP).
- Highly developed knowledge of legislation and policy in relation to psychological Trauma, and mental health generally in Wales.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the HCPC or British Psychological Society and in line with the speciality.
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Highly specialist knowledge and skills in at least two models of therapeutic intervention relevant for working with those with complex trauma across the lifespan.
- Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes.
- Advanced training in research design and methodology.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books. Accreditation as with, e.g., the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists.
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams and project management.
- Knowledge of key service development issues including mental health and primary care mental health (including steeped/ matched care, and associated HEIW workforce developments.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Well-developed knowledge and experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including substantial supervised post-qualification experience of working across the lifespan with traumatic informed care (e.g. from attachment focused ways of working to PTSD interventions).
- Experience of working as a qualified psychologist in senior positions involving supervision and service development.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of providing ongoing consultation and teaching to non-psychologists within medical and/or community settings with regards to trauma informed care and interventions.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of training and supervising psychologists and psychological therapists and trainees.
- Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies.
- Experience of culturally informed ways of working. Record of effective collaboration and team working.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of strategic planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
- Experience of teaching qualified psychologists and other NHS staff.
- Experience of undertaking service development including introduction of new posts to multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
- Ability to take responsibility for managing and developing specialist trauma informed care pathway, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
- Ability to manage Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within Trauma Stress Pathway in CTMUHB.
- Demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness in individual and group work, risk and clinical assessment.
- Highly developed ability to communicate with service users, families, other professionals and managers about highly complex, sensitive, distressing and sometimes contentious issues relating to patient care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to manage a varied workload effectively. Having the skills to work with multi-professional and joint-agency settings.
- Good IT skills and ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Emotional resilience to work with highly traumatised clients and their distressing experiences.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to families and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of good clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material.
- Ability to travel in a timely manner within geographical area covered by Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board.
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 Nia Holford
- Job title
- Directorate Lead Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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