Job summary
- Main area
- Health Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST035-0324
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dewi Sant Hospital
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £59,857 - £69,553 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8b
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 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This is an opportunity for a practitioner psychologist to join the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Health (CTMUHB) Health Psychology Service in a permanent, part-time post.
We are inviting applications from motivated and passionate clinical psychologists looking to make a difference to patients suffering from long term conditions especially, but not limited to, those that cause fatigue. This is a new and exciting development and as such you can be part of the pioneering multidisciplinary team, designing and delivering this service closely with service users. The multidisciplinary team is enthusiastic about incorporating the psychosocial elements to provide a seamless and holistic service and you will have many opportunities for both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary working. You will also be part of a growing health psychology department and will establish relationships with like-minded psychology colleagues working in various areas of physical health across the lifespan. There is additional funding for an assistant psychologist who will be recruited once the successful applicant for this post has taken up post.
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
- To develop and ensure the delivery of a high quality and specialist psychological service for service users of the Long Term Conditions / Primary Fatigue Service including assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation.
- The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team within the Long term Conditions / Primary Fatigue Service.
- To ensure that appropriate intervention is offered for all people referred to the service, provided within the framework of clinical governance, which meets accepted standards of best practice.
- The post also involves providing training and supervision to other disciplines in psychological approaches.
- To participate fully in the professional activities of the Primary Fatigue Service and CTM Health Psychology Service.
You will be supervised by either Professor Linda Speck (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Head of Health Psychology) or Dr Michelle Smalley (Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Critical Care) and we warmly invite you to make enquiries and come and visit or speak to either Linda, Michelle or the Primary Fatigue Service before submitting an application. Please contact us on 01443 443475 if you would like to arrange this.
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
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Current HCPC registration.
- Recognised training (or equivalent experience) in clinical supervision.
- Completion of a post-qualification advanced training in a formal psychological therapy.
Desirable criteria
- Additional training in evidence-based psychological interventions specific to working with people with physical health problems, particularly methods of health behaviour change.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience of working in multi-professional teams.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual assessments.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience of working in a physical health setting and working with staff.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Clinical experience in the management of pain and/or fatigue.
Aptitude and ability
Essential criteria
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
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 Michelle Smalley
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443475
- Additional information
Dr Linda Speck, Head of CTMUHB Health Psychology Service
Tel: 01656 752148
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