Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales is seeking a dynamic Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead the East ND service development. You will work within a strong MDT, guiding clinical practice with evidence-based approaches and regional collaboration across North Wales.

The role entails professional leadership, service development, and maintaining a high-level clinical caseload for complex cases across East BCUHB.

Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Psychology.
• Eligibility for Graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
• Post-graduate Doctoral qualification in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent).
• Registered with the HCPC.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly specialised clinical psychology service with assessments and therapy.
• Lead professional leadership, planning and review of Child Clinical Services in East area.
• Manage clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists and psychological therapists in East Child Clinical Psychology Services.
• Interpret and implement policies and service developments for East area.
• Develop psychological therapies provision and ensure clinical governance in East area.
• Maintain a highly specialist clinical caseload of clients with complex needs in East BCUHB.

Education

Honours Degree in Psychology

Eligibility for Graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Post-graduate Doctoral qualification in Clinical Psychology

Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council

Job description

Job Overview

Maternity Cover - Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months.

This is an exciting time to be part of Neurodevelopmental Services. We need a dynamic and innovative consultant clinical psychologist who can make a strong contribution to the development of the East ND service, to reflect the changing needs of our population.

You will be a compelling leader who can use the evidence base to inform clinical practice. You will provide highly specialist clinical and consultation skills within a very supportive MDT. You will work with the senior leadership team and partner agencies within East area to be part of developing new ways of working. This will necessitate working in conjunction with regional ND developments across North Wales.

Your skills will bridge the data needs between performance and clinical requirements, working with service and operational managers to ensure that data is collected in a meaningful way to meet performance requirements, and be used to develop clinical services.

We have a supportive network of child psychologists across specialisms for peer and professional support. We benefit from having a regional assistant psychologist dedicated to research who can provide support for your research interests. We have excellent links with the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme; we provide placements and regular teaching, as well as accessing CPD.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a highly specialised clinical psychology service, providing specialised psychological assessment and therapy to clients.
• Work individually and in accordance with the practice code, ethical principles, and guidelines of the BPS and HCPC.
• Have delegated responsibility for the professional leadership, planning, systematic provision & review of Child Clinical Services within East area of BCUHB.
• Have responsibility for the professional leadership & management of clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists and psychological therapists within Child Clinical Psychology Services in the East.
• Establish ways in which broad clinical and professional policies should be interpreted, & be accountable for own professional actions and decisions.
• Help to devise, develop, interpret & implement discrete policies and service developments as required for the Child Clinical Psychology Service for the East area.
• Help to develop psychological therapies provision and ensure clinical governance processes are in place and implemented in the East area.
• Carry a highly specialist clinical caseload of clients with complex & enduring needs within East BCUHB area.
• Ensure provision of child clinical placements for the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme (NWCPP).
• Provide teaching and training for multi-disciplinary BCUHB staff & for the NWCPP.
• Utilise highly specialised research skills for audit, policy and service development, & research.

Working for our organisation

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales. Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Honours Degree in Psychology
• Eligibility for Graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
• Post-graduate Doctoral qualification in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or for those trained overseas), as accredited by the British Psychological Society
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral Trainees.
• Doctoral level advanced knowledge of clinical psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation.
• Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical psychology.
• Attendance at several taught postgraduate course and pursuit of supervised self-directed study in specialist field.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to Psychology.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

Essential criteria

• Sufficient experience to demonstrate a level of competence to satisfy the assessment requirements of two BPS/DoH National Assessors in Clinical Psychology for entrance into Consultant Grade.
• Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified and senior clinical psychologist, normally including significant post-qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located, or relevant transferable skills.
• Assessed experience of working effectively as a qualified and senior level clinical psychologist in the designated speciality, or relevant transferable skills.
• Demonstrates further specialist training/experience through having received extensive and demonstrable clinical supervision of working as a highly specialist Clinical Psychologist or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology
• Experience of highly specialised psychological assessment and treatment of a range of clients across a wide range of care settings.
• Extensive experience of working with client groups across an increasing range of clinical severity.
• Extensive experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care, with experience of co-ordinating care within the context of multidisciplinary care-planning.
• Extensive experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision