Job summary
- Main area
- Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST020-0224-A
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- To be agreed at interview
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £51,706 - £58,210 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Psychologist
Band 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 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
Are you a Psychologist looking for diversity in your clinical work? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate 8a Psychologist to join our thriving Older Person’s Psychology Team within CTMUHB, on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will work within Memory Assessment Services (MAS), experiencing the breadth and diversity of clinical work that this area has to offer, across CTMUHB.
We also welcome enquires from Trainee Psychologists nearing qualification or newly qualified Practitioner Psychologists.
The CTM UHB Older Person’s Psychology Team consists of a supportive and passionate team of colleagues, including experienced Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and Psychological Therapists. We’re a team who embraces change and opportunity, and are currently in an exciting period of service development. The successful candidate will be well supported and mentored by senior colleagues, and provided with a range of opportunities for career development.
The wider Psychology service within CTM UHB has undergone exciting developments in recent months and is a thriving department to sit within. We hold regular conferences throughout the year, where psychology teams across CTM UHB come together to share good practice and innovations within the trust and wider. We have close links with local Doctoral Clinical/Counselling Psychology programmes and provide regular training and placement opportunities to Trainees.
Main duties of the job
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) Older Person’s Mental Health (OPMH) services are currently divided into five areas: Bridgend, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and Merthyr – each area has it's own Memory Assessment Service (MAS) and Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). The successful candidate for this post work within MAS Psychology services across CTMUHB. The post holder will sit within well-established multi-disciplinary teams consisting of Old Age Psychiatrists, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Support Workers, providing specialist psychological knowledge, expertise and consultation to the team.
This role provides an opportunity for an 8a Psychologist to work within MAS, providing a high quality psychology service to the teams and population within CTMUHB. The OPMH Psychology Team provide a range of interventions to support the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of those within the MAS pathway. This includes providing Neuropsychological Assessments, and pre-/post-diagnostic interventions as appropriate for those within the MAS pathway, including group and individual psychological therapies for those living with Dementia and/or their care partners.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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/or Experience
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) including specifically, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by Health and Care Professions Council, HCPC.
- Must be registered with the HCPC.
- Training in supervision of Trainee Psychologists
- Completion of suitable post-qualification supervised clinical experience with client group(s).
Desirable criteria
- Additional post-qualification training or experience in cognitive assessment/ Neuropsychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in Care and treatment planning as defined under the Mental Health Measure, Wales.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clinical presentations, across the whole life course.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification experience of working in older people’s mental health services and with service users who have dementia and their families/carers.
- Post qualification experience in cognitive assessment.
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions e.g. nursing, occupational therapy.
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
- Sarah Butler Jones
- Job title
- Principal Psychologist (Lead for MAS)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443001
- Additional information
ext 75409
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