Practitioner Psychologist for Young Onset Dementia and Memory Team

4 weeks ago


Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced practitioner psychologist to join our Young Onset Dementia and Memory Team services at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

Main Responsibilities
  • Provide a practitioner psychology service to the Young Onset Dementia team and the community Memory Team service for Cardiff and the Vale.
  • Contribute to all parts of the dementia pathway, including neuropsychological assessments, post-diagnostic psychological therapy, and supporting care partners.
  • Work collaboratively and closely with multidisciplinary team colleagues, as well as with people living with dementia and their care partners.
  • Join a welcoming, innovative, and enthusiastic group of psychology practitioners in the service, valuing reflective practice and learning from one another.
About the Team

Our Young Onset Dementia and Memory Team is a well-established and highly motivated team, providing a practitioner psychology service to the Young Onset Dementia team and the community Memory Team service for Cardiff and the Vale.

Person Specification
  • Essential Qualifications:
    • 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).
    • HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
  • Desirable Qualifications:
    • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
  • Essential Experience:
    • Experience in applying clinical/counselling psychology in the NHS, including cognitive and structured assessment, formulation, intervention, research, and service development.
    • Experience of effective multi-disciplinary team working in NHS or equivalent.
  • Desirable Experience:
    • Experience of working with people with mental health/psychological problems in a medical setting, including problems presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
    • 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.
  • Essential Skills:
    • 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.
    • Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively, requiring empathy and reassurance, in a highly emotive atmosphere.
  • Desirable Skills:
    • Experience of the development and implementation of policies and strategic long-term service developments.
  • Special Knowledge:
    • Practitioner Psychologist: Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, psychological therapies, and their application.
    • Practitioner Psychologist: Participation with CPD as recommended by the BPS.


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