Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist - SCI Rehabilitation

NHS; Penarth; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a HCPC Registered Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist. You will play a key role in a multi-disciplinary outreach team, enhancing spinal cord injury rehabilitation services across Wales. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in clinical health psychology and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience working in clinical health psychology or medical settings.
• Ability to manage complex psychological assessments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee psychological components of the outreach service.
• Consultation and supervision of fellow psychologists.
• Design and implement psychological care and interventions.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Intervention techniques

Consultation

Team collaboration

Education

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Good Honours degree in Psychology

Job description

Job summary

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre, in partnership with the Psychology & Psychological Therapies Directorate, offers an exciting opportunity for a HCPC Registered Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist - Band 8b to to be part of a recently developed multi-disciplinary outreach team based in UHL. The development of this dedicated outreach service has enabled the Welsh centre to support people with complex spinal cord injury rehabilitation needs along the care pathway. This dedicated MDT provides input to DGH's across Wales, advising on specialist care and supporting local clinical teams in the holistic management of people with highly complex needs. It has the scope to offer those people who have complex spinal rehabilitation needs across Wales and have difficulties attending clinics in Cardiff to be seen in their local community or even at home in a timely manner. This includes improving access to psychological interventions and services for people living with spinal cord injury along the care pathway.

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

Main duties of the job

Psychological skills are highly valued within the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Service and have been part of the planning for this new service. There is an opportunity for providing and designing psychological care, for direct client work, work with families, consultancy, staff-focussed interventions, innovation, service improvement/design, care pathway improvement, skills training and research/audit. In addition to the clinical and MDT roles, leadership of the psychological components of the dedicated outreach service is a key element of this post. This includes overseeing the other psychological roles/tasks within the service, consultation/supervision, and contributing to ideas for expansion and the future development of the service in collaboration with the lead consultant psychologist.

The post will enhance the existing specialist spinal cord injury rehabilitation psychology service, which currently includes a lead consultant and principal practitioner psychologist.

The post is 1.0wte, 37.5 hours per week.

It is essential for this post to hold a Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent), to be a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling), and be eligible for Chartered Psychologist status with the BPS. Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working with people with medical problems/physical disability.

About us

This is an exciting time to join Cardiff & Vale UHB. The UHB has supported the development of psychological expertise in medical settings and there is a growing Clinical Health Psychology and Neuropsychology Specialty. The post-holder will join the newly established Neuro-Rehabilitation Psychology Department at Llandough and be based with colleagues working in both spinal cord injury rehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology. There is an active professional network for clinical psychologists in South Wales and you would be able to develop your professional, leadership, supervisory and clinical skills via CPD opportunities.

We are looking for individuals who share our values;

• We care about people we serve and the people we work with.
• We trust and respect one another.
• We take personal responsibility.
• We act with integrity.

Post holders will be expected at all times to behave in accordance with our values demonstrating commitment to the delivery of high quality services to patients.

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

Expressions of interest and visits are welcome.

Details Date posted

04 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£63,150 to £73,379 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

001-PST012-0425-A

Job locations

The Llandough Centre for Specialist Spinal and Neurorehabilitation

Penlan Road

Penarth

CF64 2XX

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.

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.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• 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 registered as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable

• Post doctoral training/ experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, particularly clinical health psychology/medical settings or transferable
• Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

Experience Essential

• Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist within clinical health psychology/medical settings or applicable transferable skills
• 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.
• Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users as co-producers

Skills Essential

• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Analytical and judgment skills as described on person specification
• Planning and Organisational Skills as described on person specification

Special Knowledge Essential

• Formal training and supervision of other psychologists.
• Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
• Ability to identify and provide support to carers and staff.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Specialist knowledge of psychometric test construction, development, validation, administration and clinical interpretation of the results.

Desirable

• Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.

Personal Qualities Essential

• Commitment to and interest in working with people within medical settings.
• Commitment to working collaboratively with patients, their families/carers and staff to develop and improve services.
• Willingness to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to communicate clearly and with sensitivity - verbally and in writing.
• Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload

Other Essential

• Computer literate
• Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh and willing to use in a work context

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• 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 registered as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable

• Post doctoral training/ experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, particularly clinical health psychology/medical settings or transferable
• Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

Experience Essential

• Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist within clinical health psychology/medical settings or applicable transferable skills
• 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.
• Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users as co-producers

Skills Essential

• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Analytical and judgment skills as described on person specification
• Planning and Organisational Skills as described on person specification

Special Knowledge Essential

• Formal training and supervision of other psychologists.
• Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
• Ability to identify and provide support to carers and staff.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Specialist knowledge of psychometric test construction, development, validation, administration and clinical interpretation of the results.

Desirable

• Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.

Personal Qualities Essential

• Commitment to and interest in working with people within medical settings.
• Commitment to working collaboratively with patients, their families/carers and staff to develop and improve services.
• Willingness to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to communicate clearly and with sensitivity - verbally and in writing.
• Organised and flexible, able to prioritise workload

Other Essential

• Computer literate
• Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh and willing to use in a work context

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

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Address

The Llandough Centre for Specialist Spinal and Neurorehabilitation

Penlan Road

Penarth

CF64 2XX

Employer's website

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

Employer details Employer name

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Address

The Llandough Centre for Specialist Spinal and Neurorehabilitation

Penlan Road

Penarth

CF64 2XX

Employer's website

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