Consultant Clinical /Neuropsychologist

Transformationunitgm; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 87,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a qualified Practitioner Psychologist to take on a Lead Consultant role in Clinical Neuropsychiatry. This position involves providing expert leadership and clinical services within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to supporting individuals with acquired brain injuries and complex mental health challenges. The role is part-time and permanent, located at a prominent hospital in Cardiff, offering a chance to make a significant impact in the field of neuropsychology. Join a collaborative environment focused on enhancing the lives of patients and their families, while contributing to the development of innovative psychological services.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in neuropsychiatry and clinical psychology is essential.
• Post-doctoral training in specialist areas of psychological practice is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service.
• Provide expert leadership and clinical services for brain injury patients.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Planning and organisational skills

Education

Good Honours degree in Psychology

Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)

Job description

Employer Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Employer type NHS

Site Hafan Y Coed. University Hospital of Llandough

Town Cardiff

Salary £75,405 - £86,885 per annum, pro rata

Salary period Yearly

Closing 07/05/2025 23:59

Consultant Clinical /Neuropsychologist

Band 8c

WHO WE ARE:

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Board in the UK, employing over 16,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services.

OUR REGION:

Wales has much to offer with miles of stunning coastline, UNESCO world heritage sites and beautiful countryside. Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, has something for everyone. It is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and extensively experienced Practitioner Psychologist to apply for a Lead Consultant post (Band 8c) within Clinical Neuropsychiatry. This is a regional service.

The role is to provide expert leadership, professional and clinical services and join the multi disciplinary team providing services to people who have acquired brain injury and complex mental health difficulties, their families and carers and requiring the specialist neuropsychiatry service.

The successful candidate would join the Neuropsychiatric management and Leadership Team, work collaboratively with the Psychology Head of Specialty and be part of the Directorate of Mental Health Services for Older People and Neuropsychiatry and the Psychology and Psychological Therapies Directorate.

The post is based at the University Hospital Llandough.

It is a part-time (0.8 WTE/30 hours per week), permanent role.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible for leading all elements of Clinical Psychology within the regional Neuropsychiatry Service based at Llandough Hospital. Cardiff. The role involves leading on the psychological care in this setting and being part of the neuropsychiatry management and decision making team for the service.

Extensive and substantial knowledge and experience of applying psychology in complex medical settings is essential. Direct clinical experience, or demonstrable transferable skills, in the application of clinical psychology within neuropsychiatry services and/or working with complex mental health issues, neurological/brain injury and damage is essential.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS.
• Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice, particularly clinical neuropsychology
• Qualification in supervision
• Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)
• Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences or similar contributions

Experience

• Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner with experience of working within neuropsychiatry
• Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions
• Demonstrable evidence of specialist clinical supervision
• Experience of working with service users as co-producers
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists

Skills

• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Communication and relationship skills
• Analytical and judgement skills
• Planning and organisational skills

Special knowledge

• Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a longer term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty
• Well developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions in brain injury and clinical neuropsychology
• Evidence of significant post doctorate qualification and continued professional development
• Respect for users of services and their carers
• Commitment to working collaboratively with users of services and their care partners to develop and improve services
• Ability to make effective use of clinical consultation and appraisal
• Ability to make decisions and problem solve
• Ability to cope with continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills