Clinical/practitioner Psychologist Stepped Care

We want to recruit TWO experienced, enthusiastic, and dynamic Band 8a clinical psychologist, to join our Stepped Care Initiative within Adult mental health psychology services across Betsi Cadwaladr NHS Board. There will be TWO 8a clinical psychologists within the Stepped Care initiative to be based in either the West/Central or East region.

The post involves working with primary care mental health services across the age range of younger and older adults. You will be joining a friendly, welcoming, and growing Adult Mental Health Psychology 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 is within existing established inpatient psychology services. The post holder will also benefit from BCUHB wide links across North Wales within the wider Psychology Departments, with opportunity for clinical networking North Wales wide. You will be well supported, mentored, supervised, and managed within AMH Psychology.

The post holder will work under the supervision of the newly created Consultant Clinical Psychologist post for Stepped Care in BCUHB and be expected to provide leadership to the Primary Mental Health Service MDT on psychological knowledge and skills, relevant to all the practitioners within LPMHSS. This will require excellent interpersonal skills, and an ability to integrate and co-work well with MDT colleagues, so providing accessible specialist psychological knowledge and expertise to the primary care mental health team. As well as providing direct clinical input to clients including specialised psychological assessments and neuropsychological assessments, formulation, and group or individual intervention work; the post will also involve working through others by offering training, supervision, and team formulation. It will involve attendance at clinical MDT meetings, referral meetings, primary care business meetings, and general clinical leadership. It will also involve the supervision of lower grade psychologists, assistants and trainees.

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

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales. Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.

The postholder will be employed within the Stepped Care initiative to support the continued development and delivery of psychological therapies across MDT primary mental health services, and the interface with secondary care adult mental health services and allied partners. The postholder will independently assess and treat a specialist caseload of service users who are referred to the Psychology Service. S/he will provide, develop and manage highly specialist interventions for service users and their families including highly specialist neuropsychological assessment. Additionally they will support training and supervision infrastructures for MDT staff to support the development of the MDT workforce’s skills in psychological therapies and interventions, as per the Matrics Cymru stepped care model. The postholder will provide clinical training and placements for clinical psychologist trainees; provide specialist advice and consultancy to other professionals and carers; undertake Research and Development activities, lecturing and teaching and maintain up to date knowledge of the evidence base for therapies and interventions with service users