Principal Psychologist

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board; Pontypridd; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health board in Wales is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead and deliver psychological services within the community mental health teams. The role includes supervision of junior staff and ensuring evidence-based practices while contributing to service development. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in clinical psychology and strong leadership skills. The position offers competitive remuneration and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with complex clinical cases.
• Experience supervising psychologists and other professionals.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, effective, evidence-based therapies.
• Supervise the work of less experienced psychologists.
• Develop psychological services within assigned areas.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Leadership skills

Evaluation of services

Education

Doctoral training in applied psychology

Job description

Overview

We are looking to recruit a Principal Psychologist to provide leadership and specialist psychological provision to the adult community mental health teams in the Rhondda/Cynon/Taf area. The successful candidate will join a diverse and passionate team of psychologists working across the community teams in CTM. The successful candidate will provide management, support and mentoring to junior colleagues within the team. They in turn will be provided support and mentoring through the psychology leadership team as well as the lead consultant psychologist for CMHT's. The CMHT psychologists are currently engaged in an exciting period of service development where there are many opportunities to pursue projects you have an interest in and help shape the future of CMHT psychological services.

The CMHT psychology service is made up of clinical and counselling psychologists, CAAP and assistant psychologists. We have close links with both the clinical and counselling doctorate in South Wales and consistently have trainees on placement with us.

The wider CTM psychology service is going through a period of development aimed to foster good links and communication across specialities and the successful candidate will be part of the leadership team developing this vision.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a senior clinical leader helping to provide timely, effective, modern, evidence based therapies delivered by a well trained and supervised multi-disciplinary workforce. They will themselves provide highly specialist psychological services within an assigned community mental health team (CMHT) and develop suitable models for increasing the capacity within CMHTs to offer systematic stepped care to people with complex needs who require psychological treatment as part of their recovery plan. They will supervise the work of less experienced psychologists or other professions. Thus their work will involve providing highly specialist interventions as well as developing fit for purpose psychological services within their assigned service areas. The postholder is expected to be research active and to contribute to our organisational status as a university health board.

The successful candidate will hold line management and clinical supervision responsibility for other psychologists within the team.

The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

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.

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

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isnt fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see Welsh Language Guidance in the documents right at the bottom.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral, or equivalent, professional training in applied psychology.

Knowledge

• Knowledge and experience of clinical supervision in order to support qualified and trainee staff with regard to psychological therapy.
• Highly-developed knowledge of more than one psychological model.

Experience

• Extensive experience of working as a qualified psychologist in roles involving complex clinical cases.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as a co-ordinator of care and a therapist and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions (e.g. nursing, occupational therapy).
• Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.

Skills

• Experience of and a commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and influencing skills.

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.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

£65,424 to £76,021 per annum, pro rata