Senior Mental Health Specialist

3 days ago


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

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Health Psychologist to join our team at the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional psychologist to work in a band 8b role, providing specialist psychological input to the Liaison Psychiatry for Older People (LPOP) service.

The successful candidate will play a key role within the LPOP leadership team, working closely with medical and nursing teams to offer psychological input to patients with complex mental health needs on medical wards across two hospitals.

The salary for this position is approximately £49,846 - £69,953 per annum, depending on experience.

  • Direct clinical work: Providing psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention; joint working with multidisciplinary teams;
  • Indirect clinical work: Complex case discussion, team formulation, teaching, training, informal team consultation, supervision, and service development projects;

The ideal candidate will have a good honours degree in psychology, eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership, and a post-graduate doctorate in clinical/counselling psychology accredited by the HCPC. They should also have experience of working with older adults, exercising full clinical responsibility, and demonstrating significant specialist clinical supervision skills.

We encourage applicants to apply if they have a commitment to working with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties, willingness to participate in continuing professional development, and ability to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing situations.



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