Counselling/Clinical Consultant Psychologist - Clinical Lead Autism

NHS; Treorchy; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 87,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at NHS as the Clinical Lead for Autism, responsible for providing strategic leadership and ensuring excellent care. This role involves overseeing a dedicated team, driving initiatives in Autism care and establishing systems for performance monitoring. Ideal candidates will have a strong psychological background and proven leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Significant therapeutic expertise in CBT and systemic approaches.
• Postgraduate level research skills necessary for the role.
• Highly developed psychological knowledge related to complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the Integrated Autism Service.
• Establish monitoring systems for Autism service performance.
• Ensure effective collaboration with partner services.

Skills

Therapeutic expertise

Teaching skills

Clinical supervision

Computing skills

Education

Honours Degree in Psychology

Postgraduate Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology

Eligible for Chartered status

Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC

Training and qualification in leadership

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to be the Clinical Lead for Autism within CTM UHB. We have a small but friendly integrated team who would welcome the addition of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide clinical leadership and strategic forward planning for Autism care within CTM UHB. Alongside assessments, formulations, consultations, and advising on complex care presentations, the role will provide supervision and clinical leadership to the team. The post holder will work closely with team managers and the directorate lead consultant psychologist, to develop provision within CTM UHB and will be involved in the strategic future planning for autism and adult Neurodiversity care in CTMUHB.

Main duties of the job

This role requires the role holder to provide clinical leadership to the Integrated Autism Service and professional advice and support across wider Neurodiversity services.

The role holder will be involved in the strategic future planning for Autism and adult Neurodiversity care in CTMUHB.

The role holder will be responsible for establishing systems for monitoring the performance of the Autism service.

The role holder will be responsible for ensuring effective joint working and liaison with other services and agencies within the CTMUHB area.

About us

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.

Details Date posted

02 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£75,405 to £86,885 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

110-PST018-0425-A

Job locations

Ysbyty George Thomas

The Mattie Collins Way

Treorchy

CF42 6YG

Job description Job 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.

We look forward to hearing of your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us and discuss the post informally should you wish to do so in the first instance.

Interviews for this post will aim to occur in September 2025.

Job description Job 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.

We look forward to hearing of your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us and discuss the post informally should you wish to do so in the first instance.

Interviews for this post will aim to occur in September 2025.

Person Specification Qualifications & Knowledge Essential

• Honours Degree in Psychology or other HCPC/BPS recognised combined Honours Degree including Psychology.
• Postgraduate Doctorate Degree in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
• Eligible for Chartered status as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (BPS).
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
• Training and qualification in leadership.
• Highly developed knowledge of the range of psychological models in their application to complex presenting problems.
• Knowledge of cognitive and sensory impairment, delayed development, biopsychosocial models and the interaction of health and social care model to inform formulation of issues, assess and treat associated from a psychological perspective.
• Specialist training in the assessment of people with Autistic Spectrum disorders, for example ADOS or DISCO.
• Knowledge of government and national policies, national and local drivers, e.g. NSF, BPS guidance, to inform about re-structuring within the NHS and impact on delivery of care.
• Awareness of own development needs, proactive in making recommendation for own CPD, and advising about other's CPD/training needs.

Desirable

• Full understanding of issues related to Counselling/Clinical Psychology training.
• Specialist training in Psychological therapy for example; CBT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Systemic family therapy.
• Record of conference presentations, peer reviewed publications.

Experience Essential

• Significant therapeutic expertise, and development of areas of expertise in a range of therapeutic approaches e.g. CBT, Systemic, Mindfulness based approaches.
• Significant experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of working with clients who may be unpredictable/violent.

Skills & Attributes Essential

• Able to work with extremely distressing situations, e.g., clients that challenge services, clients with impaired communication skills.
• Ability to develop or existing demonstrable clinical supervision and consultancy skills in a multi-disciplinary context liaising with partner agencies.
• Able to work as a member of a Team.
• Competent interpersonal relating, involving complex emotional change at both the client and service/systems level: families, teams, groups.
• Computing skills, word processing and database usage, research review approaches and working knowledge of statistical analysis packages e.g. SPSS.

Other Role Requirements Essential

• Postgraduate level of research skills
• Able to travel in a timely manner to all locations in CTMUHB.
• Flexible to the service.
• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.

Person Specification Qualifications & Knowledge Essential

• Honours Degree in Psychology or other HCPC/BPS recognised combined Honours Degree including Psychology.
• Postgraduate Doctorate Degree in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
• Eligible for Chartered status as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (BPS).
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
• Training and qualification in leadership.
• Highly developed knowledge of the range of psychological models in their application to complex presenting problems.
• Knowledge of cognitive and sensory impairment, delayed development, biopsychosocial models and the interaction of health and social care model to inform formulation of issues, assess and treat associated from a psychological perspective.
• Specialist training in the assessment of people with Autistic Spectrum disorders, for example ADOS or DISCO.
• Knowledge of government and national policies, national and local drivers, e.g. NSF, BPS guidance, to inform about re-structuring within the NHS and impact on delivery of care.
• Awareness of own development needs, proactive in making recommendation for own CPD, and advising about other's CPD/training needs.

Desirable

• Full understanding of issues related to Counselling/Clinical Psychology training.
• Specialist training in Psychological therapy for example; CBT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Systemic family therapy.
• Record of conference presentations, peer reviewed publications.

Experience Essential

• Significant therapeutic expertise, and development of areas of expertise in a range of therapeutic approaches e.g. CBT, Systemic, Mindfulness based approaches.
• Significant experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of working with clients who may be unpredictable/violent.

Skills & Attributes Essential

• Able to work with extremely distressing situations, e.g., clients that challenge services, clients with impaired communication skills.
• Ability to develop or existing demonstrable clinical supervision and consultancy skills in a multi-disciplinary context liaising with partner agencies.
• Able to work as a member of a Team.
• Competent interpersonal relating, involving complex emotional change at both the client and service/systems level: families, teams, groups.
• Computing skills, word processing and database usage, research review approaches and working knowledge of statistical analysis packages e.g. SPSS.

Other Role Requirements Essential

• Postgraduate level of research skills
• Able to travel in a timely manner to all locations in CTMUHB.
• Flexible to the service.
• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Ysbyty George Thomas

The Mattie Collins Way

Treorchy

CF42 6YG

Employer's website

https://joinctm.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Ysbyty George Thomas

The Mattie Collins Way

Treorchy

CF42 6YG

Employer's website

https://joinctm.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)