Practitioner Psychologist for Health

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff & Vale University Health Board Full time

We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic Practitioner Psychologists (band 7/8a or 8a) to complete our team of psychologists working in adult Community Mental Health Teams. Working in CMHTs offers a rich diversity of experiences and opportunities: you will provide a range of psychological services to persons with a wide range of complex or enduring psychological distress (therapy assessment, including cognitive and other specialist assessments care planning etc). You will also work with your CMHT colleagues to offer psychological advice, formulation, consultation, supervision and training. There are opportunities for individual & group therapy, service development and research, as well as joint working with our friendly and hard-working team of psychologists.


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The 8a is an excellent opportunity for current band 7s looking to progress their career, and we can support you with making that move. We offer a professional development programme giving you the opportunity to consolidate your training, and to further develop skills and competencies to transition to 8a through successful completion of the programme.


We have remodelled the structure of psychology services in CMHTs giving us a cohesive structure with increased staffing. Every team has an in-team psychologist and these posts will add to that provision - we have also recently appointed a high intensity psychological therapist to further increase therapy resource. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Our CMHT psychologists work collaboratively across each locality to more flexibly meet the needs of service users- and this also allows for greater peer support, and more opportunities to develop specialist skills and interests. We are looking for people who can further add to our skills mix, and contribute to our active programme of service development, including group interventions and training for CMHT staff in psychosocial approaches.


There are good in-house opportunities for CPD including substantive training in Interpersonal Therapy and Open Dialogue Approach. C& V UHB is fortunate to have a number of services focussed on specific issues (for example, Eating Disorders service) and, for people in full-time posts, there may be opportunities to pursue CPD time in these services. We also have active links with our local doctoral training courses (clinical & counselling) and there are opportunities to provide supervision, research, consultancy and training.
nhs.uk in the first instance to arrange a time for an informal discussion. Good Honours degree in Psychology with eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the BPS.
Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS) OR (for trainees) doctorate to be completed by October 2024
HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist OR (for trainees) eligible by October 2024

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.


Experience in applying clinical/counselling psychology in the NHS, including cognitive and structured assessment, formulation, intervention, research and service development.
Experience of working with people with mental health/psychological problems in a medical setting problems presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Experience of teaching/training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.

Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options.
Ability to contribute to the development of, and to implement, agreed policies and strategic long-term service developments.
Experience of the development and implementation of policies and strategic long-term service developments.


Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, psychological therapies and their application.
Post-doctoral training in relevant specialist areas of psychological practice (e.g. assessment of autism working with psychosis specific psychosocial approaches).


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