Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young People’s Community Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (30 hours per week (4 days))
- Job ref
- 110-PST027-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tonteg Hospital
- Town
- Tonteg
- Salary
- £63,150 - £73,379 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Practitioner Psychologist - early and brief interventions
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 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
This post is one of two new and exciting opportunities to be part of a developing and expanding Children and Young Person’s Community Mental Health Service in CTM UHB. It has been created to develop an original and innovative service to develop and deliver early, brief psychological interventions for children, young people, their families and the professionals around them. We want to ensure support is person centred, needs led, timely and available at the point where help is sought to prevent or reduce the likelihood of longer-term harm.
If you share these values and have energy and motivation to drive meaningful change for children, young people and families within the context of their support networks and local communities we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
This region wider offer will be community based, working with both established CAMHS services and reaching into new areas including community partnership collaborations and multi-agency spaces.
There will be three key streams of work: the development and delivery of a model of consultation to facilitate psychological formulation of the needs of the young person and their family within the context of their local community and support, delivering highly specialist early, brief psychological assessment and intervention and to develop new models of brief work within CAMHS such as a one at a time model of practice, and to incorporate a multi-agency approach and work into partnership spaces to offer expertise and create new psychologically informed approaches and services around children and young people, such as place based community psychology partnerships.
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/or knowledge
Essential criteria
- Honours Degree in Psychology. Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical or other relevant Applied Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Relevant additional specialist training or supervised practice in a therapeutic approach, to an accredited or equivalent level. Relevant additional specialist experience of delivering a consultation service. Relevant additional specialist training or knowledge and experience in brief interventions. Health Care Professionals Council registration as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical supervisor training for doctoral clinical psychology trainees. Additional training in attachment related interventions with children and/or young people. Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of utilising legislation relevant to psychological services for children, young people and families. Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist in an area relevant to this post. Evidence of excellent and autonomous clinical practice, effective multi-disciplinary working, and involvement in safeguarding and multi-agency risk management approaches. Experience of innovating and leading service development projects. Experience in working with children and young people with attachment difficulties and trauma Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within CAMH service for clients with complex needs. Experience of offering a specialist CYP MH consultation service. Experience of developing appropriate governance arrangements to support safe and effective practice. Experience of CYP MH work contributing to multiagency approaches and/or risk management. Experience of CYP MH work contributing to multi-systemic/multi-modal interventions. Experience of risk assessment and use of structured professional judgement tools.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Passionate about improving the lives of children and families. Open and enthusiastic approach to work and professional development. Reliable and diligent approach to professional and clinical work. Capable of both team and independent working. Ability to work with highly distressing clinical material. Ability to work with complex clinical material. Capable of recognising when limits of competence are being reached and able to request and make use of supervision. Positive attitude to working with colleagues from different organisational contexts. Skills in delivering training and consultation. Well-developed skills in all forms of communication – oral and written, sensitive information, and with various audiences. Flexible approach to needs of the service and personable approach to working in a MDT. Ability to work in clinical and service contexts of high complexity and ongoing change. Standard keyboard skills with familiarity of Microsoft Office and NHS computer systems. Actively promote the relevant agendas including that of Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure with specific sensitivity to the challenges confronting the client group.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Values
Essential criteria
- Promote and uphold the values and behaviours of CTMUHB.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently and use distance supervision and support arrangements as necessary. Work with sensitivity and respect to matters of diversity and difference, being inclusive and enabling of service users, families and professional colleagues. Able to work flexibly according to demands of the team and role. Ability to travel in a timely manner to work in different bases across the CTM region. Enhanced DBS Check.
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
01656 674941
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