Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young People's Mental Health Service
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 37.5 hours a week)
- Job ref
- 110-PST032-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- To be confirmed on appointment.
- Town
- Tonteg
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist
Band 7
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 has been created as part of new and exciting service development within Children and Young Person’s Community Mental Health Service in CTMUHB.
The aim is to develop and implement two innovative services for children, young people and families who present with complex needs and systems and for those where early, brief intervention is indicated to prevent or reduce the likelihood of longer-term harm.
You will be working across both of these services and alongside two Principal Clinical Psychologists who will be leading the service development.
Within this role you will join a friendly, motivated and growing psychology and psychological professions team and will work into existing regional specialist CAMHS teams and develop new relationships with multi agency partners and the third sector to explore and develop psychological practice with our key stake holders. The ambition of the service is to ensure young people have access to psychological support that is person centred, needs led and at the right time in the right place.
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
We expect this to be a varied and exciting role with the opportunity to experience all aspects of service development and evolution. This region wide offer will be community based and working with both established CAMHS services and reaching into new areas including community partnership collaborations and multi-agency spaces.
We anticipate that the post holder will offer consultation, supervision and training to, and hold a psychological voice within, multi-disciplinary team meetings; and as the services develop, into multiagency forums and into partnership spaces to support and develop the psychological thinking around the children and young people expressing psychological distress.
The post holder will also be expected to clearly and coherently assess risk, care plan and develop psychological formulations and interventions for complex vulnerable children and families whilst planning and prioritising their caseload in the provision of both indirect systemic practice and direct assessment and therapeutic work.
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
- Good Honours Degree in Psychology. Postgraduate Doctorate qualification in specialist (Clinical/ Counselling/Forensic) Psychology. Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist. Relevant specialist training/experience or qualification. Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to this client group i.e. adolescents. Awareness and understanding of the requirements of Clinical Governance within the NHS.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children in a relevant setting.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in mental health services in the NHS. Experience of working in a multi-cultural framework.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in developing and co-ordinating training packages, consultation for other professionals and appropriate interventions. Highly developed skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. In addition to routine CPD and clinical supervision additional training and or supervision in a relevant specialist area e.g. CBT, Family Therapy. Evidence of continuing professional development. Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise clinical and professional commitments. Ability to work with complex clinical material. Ability to contain work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others. Ability to work with highly distressing clinical material and help others manage this. Ability to work in context of high complexity and ongoing change. Work to professional guidelines. Capable of being guided by principles of policies and regulations.
Values
Essential criteria
- Flexible and personable approach to working in a MDT Service. Demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively within a team as well as independently when required.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel within geographical area in a timely manner. Able to work hours flexibly. Enhanced DBS Clearance.
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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