Practitioner Psychologist CAMHS Hillside In Reach Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Practitioner Psychologist to join our new Hillside Secure Children's Home In-reach MDT as part of Swansea Bay CAMHS. The team will be based in CAMHS in the Health Board and will work primarily in Hillside. The Hillside MDT will be professionally led by a Consultant Practitioner Psychologist and include AHP, Psychiatry, nursing and Systemic Family Therapy provision alongside this position. The expectation is that each child will have a psychological formulation and care and treatment plan, and the team will work with Hillside staff to ensure plans are applied in practice in a trauma informed way. There will therefore be opportunity for direct and indirect working to ensure that staff are well supported and enabled to meet the needs of the children and families linked to Hillside. The post holder will also have opportunity to deliver psychological interventions as per Matrics Plant.

We have a strong and thriving professional Child Psychology network within Swansea Bay University Health Board, with Psychologist posts at all career grades working together to meet the needs of the Swansea Bay population. The post holder will join this cohesive network of psychologists affording opportunities for shared learning, CPD, reflective practice and support.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work alongside the MDT providing into the Hillside Secure Children's Home, will be supervised and supported by the Consultant Psychology lead for the team, and will take on some deputising roles for the lead.

They will be expected to provide psychological assessments, develop formulations with children, families, Hillside Staff and the MDT to feed into care and treatment plans. They will be expected to deliver evidence based psychological interventions as per formulation.

This opportunity will afford them direct and indirect clinical work, allowing them to offer a range of psychological interventions to the children, young people, their families and networks. They will be expected to partner with Hillside staff and the MDT to ensure that the care plans are applied in practice and that staff are robustly supported and enabled to meet the children and young people's needs to the best of their ability and manage the emotional context in which they work.

The postholder will have opportunities to utilise their research and evaluation skills in helping to ascertain the nature and quality of the provision to help inform continued service development.

About us

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Job responsibilities

The post is an 8b post but less experienced psychologists are also welcome to apply and can be appointed to a Band 8a in a preceptorship role. This means the post holder would be paid on a Band 8a salary and would have a development plan in place to progress to having the competencies required for the 8b post. They would be supported to develop their competencies, and evidence this, and would then be appointed to the 8b.

The exact details of the role will evolve in collaboration with the post holder, the Lead Hillside Psychologist and the needs of the service, alongside developments across the MDT.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Eligibility for British Psychological Society Chartered status.
• Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
• Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
• Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees.
• Doctoral level advanced specialist knowledge of clinical psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Recognised qualification in supervision.
• Record of publications in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.

Experience

• 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.
• Specialised psychological assessment and treatment of a range of clients across a wide range of care settings. Working with client groups across an increasing range of clinical severity.
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care, with experience of co-ordinating care within the context of multi-disciplinary care planning.
• Providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Experience of professional management of qualified clinical psychologists and other staff.

Aptitude and Ability

• Adhere to and can demonstrate SBU Values & Behaviours
• The ability to demonstrate a high level of competence to work within the designated speciality
• Well-developed skills in the supervision of other staff, including Trainee Clinical Psychologists
• Well-developed skills in effectively communicating very complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information, both orally and in writing, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Capable of maintaining a high degree of professionalism and safe clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Managed staff who deal with highly distressing situations, severely challenging behaviours and other stressors.
• The ability to use a variety of complex multi-media materials for a range of purposes such as teaching and training.
• Capable of effective workload management when facing competing demands.
• The ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Basic IT skills.
• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Advanced IT skills.

Other Essential Criteria

• Ability to travel within the geographical area.
• Ability to work hours flexibly.

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.

£63,150 to £73,379 a year per annum pro rata