Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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. We also offer a number of family-friendly benefits, including work-life balance policies.

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.

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Clinical Psychologist to join Bwthyn Y Ddol; a multi-agency team working in Conwy and Denbighshire. This is an innovative, one-of-a-kind service with integration at its core. By bringing Social Care and CAMHS together in practice, we believe we can achieve more for children and young people.

You will contribute to the development and leadership of a joint agency team set up to provide responsive, intensive support to children (6 – 17 yrs) who are on the edge of care. You will be part of a team of experienced professionals working into a purpose-built residential assessment centre, as well as with families in the community. You will draw on your expertise of multiple psychological models in contributing to intensive and robust assessment, formulation and direct therapeutic support to a small caseload. Consultation with families and colleagues, training and clinical supervision will form a large part of this role, liaising closely with colleagues in local services, and there will be protected time for service development and evaluation. This post will play a key role in the strategic leadership of our other CAMHS/Local Authority projects.

We believe this is an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of some of the most disadvantaged children and young people in our area. The post holder will join the Child Clinical Psychology community within BCUHB, with close links to the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme.

Main duties of the job

1. To lead on the development and delivery of a highly specialised clinical psychology service to clients of the sector within a joint Social Care and BCUHB Edge of Care service and partnership across Conwy and Denbighshire areas.
2. To lead on the review, development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of specialised psychological assessment, complex formulation and multi-modal therapeutic interventions to clients and their families in the Bwthyn Y Ddôl service where there is vulnerability of a child entering care, significant multi-level child and family risk concerns and crisis.
3. Jointly with the Bwthyn Y Ddôl Team Manager and responsible Local Authority Service Manager to lead a team of multi-disciplinary professionals in delivering a specialist Edge of Care therapeutic model.
4. To have responsibility for the professional leadership and management of clinical psychologists, and assistant psychologists within the Bwthyn Y Ddôl service, where applicable.
5. Within the Bwthyn Y Ddôl service to carry a highly specialist clinical caseload of clients within a whole family approach where there are complex and enduring individual and systemic needs.
6. To provide clinical supervision and management of clinical practice to multi-disciplinary professionals and clinical psychology staff within a specialist Edge of Care service.
7. To provide relevant teaching and training for multi-disciplinary Bwthyn Y Ddôl professionals and for the NWCPP doctoral training programme.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

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 Knowledge

• Good Honours Degree in Psychology
• Eligibility for BPS Chartered status
• Post Grad Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equiv for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS
• Registration with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical Psychologist
• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral Trainees.
• Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes
• Attendance at several taught post-graduate course and pursuit of supervised self-directed study in specialist field
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC

Experience

• Assessed experience of working effectively as a qualified and senior level clinical psychologist in the designated specialty, or transferable skills
• Demonstrates further specialist training/expertise through having received extensive and demonstrable clinical supervision of work as a highly specialist Clinical Psychologist or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology
• Experience of highly specialised psychological assessment and treatment of a range of clients across a wide range of care
• Extensive experience of working with client groups across an increasing range of clinical severity
• Extensive experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care with experience of coordinating care with the context of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care planning
• Extensive experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

Aptitude and Abilities

• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of multi-disciplinary colleagues and settings
• Well-developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to prepare and present clinical and academic material for lecturing/training purposes, including the use of a variety of complex multimedia materials
• 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 formulate, develop and implement policies and strategic long-term service developments within the Child Psychology Service, and with impact beyond the area of activity.
• Ability to professionally manage Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within the Child Clinical Psychology Service.
• Well-developed skills in the supervision of other staff, including trainee and qualified Clinical Psychologists.
• The ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills

Values

• Ability to demonstrate a range of qualities essential to the role, e.g. compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.
• Ability to work in accordance with the core organisational values

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK/RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Kate Dickson Job title Head of Child Psychology and Interventions Email address Kate.dickson@wales.nhs.uk