Consultant Psychologist

Swansea Bay University Health Board; Bridgend; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bridgend is seeking an experienced practitioner psychologist to lead a high-quality psychology service. The role involves managing a team, offering psychological interventions, and collaborating with other professionals. Applicants should have appropriate experience at Consultant level, and Welsh language skills are desirable. This position supports ongoing professional development and aims to enhance bilingual communication in services.

Benefits

Ongoing professional development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience working at Consultant (8c) level.
• Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of psychologists ensuring good clinical governance.
• Support recruitment for additional funded posts.
• Offer psychological interventions to patients and families.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Psychological interventions

Collaboration

Education

Practitioner psychologist with appropriate experience

Job description

Overview

Swansea Bay University Health Board reserve the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. Prior consideration for this vacancy will be given to staff currently awaiting redeployment and we therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic practitioner psychologist to lead and further develop a high quality, responsive and accessible Rehabilitation and Recovery (R&R) psychology service within Swansea Bay University Healthboard, which includes low secure, locked rehabilitation, peri natal inpatient and community services.

The post holder will be welcomed into the broader Swansea Bay Mental Health and Learning Disability (MHLD) psychology department, and will be expected to play an active role in collaborating with other psychologists on joint projects and initiatives. The postholder will join a Consultant Lead Psychology team within our Secure Services and Recovery (SSR) Division, with access to regular peer supervision CPD, reflective practice and service development work as well as having an ongoing programme of clinical and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Professionally lead a team of psychologists, ensuring that appropriate management structures and good clinical governance for the team are in place.
• Support the Professional Lead for MHLD Psychology with recruitment to any additional, funded posts within the service area.
• Undertake direct and indirect clinical work, offering a range of psychological interventions to patients, their families and networks.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team ensuring that service plans, developments and pathways are psychologically informed.
• Lead on reviewing and evaluating the service, and ensure good clinical governance across psychology.
• Ensure other psychologists and psychological therapists have appropriate support and supervision and are enabled to develop their professional competencies and careers.
• Foster excellent links with the SBU psychology department and with Swansea and Cardiff universities, including opportunities for hosting MSc students and DClinPsy trainees.

Qualifications and requirements

• This post is available to practitioner psychologists with appropriate experience and competencies to work at Consultant (8c) level. Please see the attached Job Plan and Person Specification (JP&PS) for more details. The generic JP&PS will be tailored to the specific role and requirements of the service.
• The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Additional information

• 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.
• Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, including age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
• We are a Disability Confident Employer and applications are welcomed from persons with disabilities. A disability will not prejudice your application. If you are unable to submit your application in the requested format because of a disability please contact the Recruitment Team, who will agree a more suitable way for you to apply. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification will be invited to interview.
• Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.