Counselling/Clinical Consultant Psychologist - Clinical Lead Autism

NHS; Treorchy; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job description

Counselling/Clinical Consultant Psychologist - Clinical Lead Autism

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

We have an exciting opportunity to be the Clinical Lead for Autism within CTM UHB. We have a small but friendly integrated team who would welcome the addition of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide clinical leadership and strategic forward planning for Autism care within CTM UHB. Alongside assessments, formulations, consultations, and advising on complex care presentations, the role will provide supervision and clinical leadership to the team. The post holder will work closely with team managers and the directorate lead consultant psychologist, to develop provision within CTM UHB and will be involved in the strategic future planning for autism and adult Neurodiversity care in CTMUHB.

Main Duties of the Job

1. This role requires the role holder to provide clinical leadership to the Integrated Autism Service and professional advice and support across wider Neurodiversity services.
2. The role holder will be involved in the strategic future planning for Autism and adult Neurodiversity care in CTMUHB.
3. The role holder will be responsible for establishing systems for monitoring the performance of the Autism service.
4. The role holder will be responsible for ensuring effective joint working and liaison with other services and agencies within the CTMUHB area.

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the 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.

We look forward to hearing of your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us and discuss the post informally should you wish to do so in the first instance.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

• Honours Degree in Psychology or other HCPC/BPS recognised combined Honours Degree including Psychology.
• Postgraduate Doctorate Degree in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
• Eligible for Chartered status as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (BPS).
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• Training and qualification in leadership.
• Highly developed knowledge of the range of psychological models in their application to complex presenting problems.
• Knowledge of cognitive and sensory impairment, delayed development, biopsychosocial models and the interaction of health and social care model to inform formulation of issues, assess and treat associated from a psychological perspective.
• Specialist training in the assessment of people with Autistic Spectrum disorders, for example ADOS or DISCO.
• Knowledge of government and national policies, national and local drivers, e.g. NSF, BPS guidance, to inform about re-structuring within the NHS and impact on delivery of care.
• Awareness of own development needs, proactive in making recommendation for own CPD, and advising about other's CPD/training needs.
• Full understanding of issues related to Counselling/Clinical Psychology training.
• Specialist training in Psychological therapy for example; CBT, DBT, MBT, EMDR, Systemic family therapy.
• Record of conference presentations, peer reviewed publications.

Experience

• Significant therapeutic expertise, and development of areas of expertise in a range of therapeutic approaches e.g. CBT, Systemic, Mindfulness based approaches.
• Significant experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of working with clients who may be unpredictable/violent.

Skills & Attributes

• Able to work with extremely distressing situations, e.g., clients that challenge services, clients with impaired communication skills.
• Ability to develop or existing demonstrable clinical supervision and consultancy skills in a multi-disciplinary context liaising with partner agencies.
• Able to work as a member of a Team.
• Competent interpersonal relating, involving complex emotional change at both the client and service/systems level: families, teams, groups.
• Computing skills, word processing and database usage, research review approaches and working knowledge of statistical analysis packages e.g. SPSS.

Other Role Requirements

• Postgraduate level of research skills.
• Able to travel in a timely manner to all locations in CTMUHB.
• Flexible to the service.
• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.

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

Directorate Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist

£75,405 to £86,885 a year per annum pro rata