Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Deputy Head of BCUHB Psychology and Psychological Services in Physical Health and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Inherited Metabolic Disorders

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and forward-thinking Clinical Psychologist to take on a most senior leadership role as Deputy Head of the BCUHB Psychology and Psychological Services for Physical Health. This is an important role supporting the strategic, operational and professional leadership of a growing psychology workforce delivering high quality psychological care across physical health settings in BCUHB. The postholder will work closely with the Head of Specialty to shape service development and strategic planning, strengthen clinical governance, and provide clinical supervision and line management to colleagues within the department.

Main duties of the job

In addition to providing psychological leadership across the department, the post holder will join the BCUHB Inherited Metabolic Disease Team based at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, which is part of the All Wales Inherited Metabolic Disease Service. Established in 2016, this is a Tertiary Service, funded by NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee. Working closely with the Metabolic Consultants, Specialist Nurses and the wider MDT, the successful candidate will have responsibility to develop and lead a highly specialist, integrated clinical psychology service to support patients in North Wales with these rare conditions. The postholder will be will also be encouraged to undertake research and teaching in this field.

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

About us

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and 'Proud to Lead' competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the "Disability Confident Employer" scheme.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

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 and/or Knowledge

• Good Honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for BPS Chartered status.
• Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
• Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees
• Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes
• Doctoral level advanced specialist knowledge of clinical psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation, research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical psychology
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC
• Advanced training in research design and methodology
• Record of publications in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Experience

• Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist, including substantial supervised post-qualification expertise and experience within the Health Clinical Psychology field
• Sufficient experience to demonstrate a level of competence to satisfy the assessment requirements of up to two BPS/DoH National Assessors in Clinical Psychology for entrance into Consultant Grade
• Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision in the Health Clinical Psychology

Aptitude and Abilities

• Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times
• Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships
• Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings
• Ability to prepare and present clinical and academic material for lecturing/training purposes
• Ability to make clinical and service-related judgements involving highly complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options
• Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex clinical or service-related activities and programmes, some of which may be long-term
• Ability to manage Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within clinical service area Clinical Psychology Service
• Ability to speak Welsh

Values

• Able to demonstrate a range of qualities essential to the role.

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.

Pathology Department, Wrexham Maelor Hospital

Head of Health Clinical Psychology Services

£80,698 to £92,984 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

050-PST

Job locations

Pathology Department, Wrexham Maelor Hospital