Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (or development role)

Integrated Care System; Brecon, Newtown; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist has arisen in the All Age Eating Disorder Service with a focus on evidence-based interventions. Join a supportive multidisciplinary team, and enjoy the beautiful and unique landscape of Powys while making a significant impact on mental health care.

Benefits

Support for personal and professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Prioritization of staff wellbeing

Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist required.
• Doctoral training in clinical or counselling psychology including key therapies.
• Relevant post-qualification training in research and applied psychology.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality specialist psychology service for eating disorder patients.
• Offer supervision and consultation on psychological care.
• Implement policy changes within the service.

Skills

Consultation

Supervision

Psychological assessment

Education

Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Post-Doctorate Clinical Supervision training

Tools

Research methodology

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to come and join our All Age Eating Disorder Service. Would you like to join a passionate and supportive multidisciplinary team that works throughout Powys, offering assessments and evidence-based interventions to children, young people and adults referred to Powys mental health teams with an eating disorder?

You should have significant post qualification experience of providing psychological assessment, highly specialist interventions, supervision and consultation. You will need to be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Our Psychology and Psychological Therapies Team places a strong emphasis on staff wellbeing and supporting personal and professional development.

Powys is a unique and beautiful place to live and work, with a small population across a large geographical area. This presents us with specific challenges that require creativity, flexibility and innovative ideas. You will be supported to embrace the opportunity this provides for individual clinicians to have a real impact on services and the experiences of our service users.

Applicants who do not currently meet all the essential criteria for the Band 8a role are encouraged to apply and, if successful, will be appointed under Agenda for Change Annex 21, and subject to an individualised competence development plan.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service for people struggling with eating disorders across the age range and across a variety of settings i.e. including home, community and education contexts.

Offer advice, consultation and supervision on this client group's psychological care to psychology colleagues, non-psychology colleagues and other nonprofessional carers.

Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.

Propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

Utilise doctoral level skills for audit, policy and service development, research and supervision.

Ability to work across Powys, conducting clinics across the county, and able to meet the travel commitments of the post.

About us

Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won't get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.

As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We're also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy 'life work' balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.

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.

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

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Familiarity with key strategy documents, policies and procedures and a willingness to develop knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to mental health services
• For Band 8a Annex 21: Commitment to undertake a one-year training programme to attain the relevant competencies as above
• Post qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Post-Doctorate Clinical Supervision training
• Specialist training, in for example, Systemic Family therapy, Maudsley Model, CBT for Eating Disorders

Experience

• Relevant experience gained through doctorate training of working across a range of client groups that must include Adults, Children and Families, people with a Learning Disability, and Older Age Adults
• Significant experience of working in a mental health setting with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including eating disorders
• Beginning to develop advanced levels of clinical expertise and practice working with eating disorders patients across the age range OR For Annexe 21: a demonstrable interest in working with individuals with eating disorders
• Delivering teaching and training
• Providing supervision to Clinical/ Counselling Psychologists trained, or in training, and/or to Assistant and Graduate Psychologists
• Providing individual or group supervision and consultation to other professional staff groups

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.

TBC Park Street Clinic OR Bronllys Hospital

£54,550 to £61,412 a yearper annum (pro rata if part-time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working

Reference number

070-PST019-0725

Job locations

TBC Park Street Clinic OR Bronllys Hospital