High Intensity Specialist Psychological Therapy Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Mountain Ash Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Full time

Are you a n experienced Psychological Therapist looking for diversity in your clinical work? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate Band 7 therapist to join our thriving Older Person's Psychology Team within CTMUHB, on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will work across localities within CTMUHB, within Older Person's Mental Health, experiencing the breadth of clinical work that the specialty has to offer.

The CTM UHB Older Person's Psychology Team consists of a supportive and passionate team of colleagues, including both Clinical and Counselling Psychologists. We're a team who embraces change and opportunity, and are currently in an exciting period of service development. The successful candidate will be well supported and mentored by senior colleagues, and provided with a range of opportunities for career development.

The wider Psychology service within CTM UHB has undergone exciting developments in recent months and is a thriving department to sit within. We hold regular conferences throughout the year, where psychology teams across CTM UHB come together to share good practice and innovations. We have close links with local training programmes and provide regular training and placement opportunities to Trainees.

Main duties of the job

CTM UHB Older Person's Mental Health services are currently divided into five areas: Bridgend, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and Merthyr - each area consists of an Older Person's Community Mental Health Team (OPCMHT) and Memory Assessment Service (MAS) and feeds into the Older Person's Mental Health inpatient wards within the health board. The successful candidate for this post will be based within OPCMHT and MAS, working across localities, depending on service need.

The post holder will sit within well-established multi-disciplinary teams, providing specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to the team. This role provides an opportunity for a Band 7 Therapist to work within OPCMHT, providing a high quality psychological therapy service to the teams and locality population. This primarily includes providing a psychological assessment and therapy service to older adults under secondary care mental health services (Part 2 of the Mental Health Measure, 2010), as well as consultation and training as required for staff within the wider OPCMHT. The role will sit within CMHTs, and the successful candidate will provide psychological therapies for CMHT clients.

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

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 tea

We are a proud local employer around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job description

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/Knowledge

Essential


  • Master's Level qualification, or the equivalent level of highly developed specialist skills, knowledge and experience.
  • Training in CBT and 1 other psychotherapeutic model.
  • Registered with a recognised professional body e.g. HCPC.

Desirable


  • Training in a model of clinical supervision.
  • Knowledge and experience of research in a field relevant to post.

Experience

Essential


  • Significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.
  • Experience of working in multi-professional teams or services.
  • Experience of working with older people with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Desirable


  • Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.

Values

Essential


  • Commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Ysbyty Cwm Cynon

Mountain Ash

CF45 4BZ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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