Clinical Psychologist

This is a very exciting opportunity to help make a real difference to increasing access to Adult Mental Health (AMH) Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapy services in North Wales. You will be joining a friendly, welcoming, and growing NHS secondary care AMH Clinical Psychology & Psychological Therapies Department, with excellent clinical and research links with the School of Psychology and the DClinPsych Department at the University of Wales, Bangor. The countryside of North Wales offers an excellent quality of life, and the post will be within the county team of Anglesey.

The BCUHB AMH Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Clinical Psychologist, to be based and work 1.0 wte in Anglesey CMHT. This is a permanent position, and the post holder will work as part of integrated secondary mental health services for adults who have complex and severe mental health needs. The post holder will be expected to integrate well and co-work with their CMHT colleagues, providing specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to the team. As well as providing direct clinical input to clients, this will also involve working through others by training, supervision, and formulation work. It will also involve attendance at clinical MDT meetings, referral meetings (SPOA), and CMHT business meetings, and clinical leadership.

To carry a specialist clinical psychology workload of adults at Anglesey CMHT. To provide an assessment, interventions and consultancy to services users within Anglesey or CMHT To provide day to day clinical supervision for attached Assistant Psychologists. To undertake Research and Development Activities, lecturing, multidisciplinary advice, consultation and training.

The post holder will also benefit from BCUHB wide links across the North Wales within the BCUHB AMH Clinical Psychology & Psychological Therapy Department, with opportunity for research and clinical networking both North Wales and All Wales wide. They will be well supported, mentored, and managed within that department, with the opportunity for ongoing peer support, supervision, and further training and advancement.
- To carry a specialist clinical psychology workload of service users At Anglesey CMHT
- To provide specialised clinical assessments and evidence-based therapies, drawing on highly developed specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of psychological procedures and evidence-based practices.
- To make appropriate clinical judgements, diagnoses, formulations and decisions involving complex facts or situations, and which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, and provide the basis for the development of therapeutic interventions.
- To communicate diagnoses, highly complex condition-related and highly sensitive or life changing information to clients, relatives and other professionals, where barriers to acceptance and understanding may need to be overcome, and in situations which may be hostile, antagonistic or emotive.