Practitioner Psychologist: Community Brain Injury Team
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board invites applications for a permanent, full-time HCPC Registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (or Neuropsychologist) to join our established multi‑disciplinary community brain injury team.
Main Duties
- Provide specialised psychology services to adults with complex brain injury living in the community.
- Deliver psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions for patients and their families.
- Offer advice and consultation to the multi‑disciplinary team, working within national and professional guidelines.
- Supervise junior members of the team and manage clinical governance and development agenda.
- Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within UHB guidance.
- Engage in complex psychological assessments, formulation and treatment on an individual and group basis; work in multi‑disciplinary contexts, provide consultancy, liaison, research, teaching, and supervision.
- Provide supervision and teaching to doctoral trainee clinical psychologists as a lead supervisor.
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 equivalent).
- Eligibility for HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
- Pre‑ or post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
Experience
- Post‑qualification experience as an HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist.
- Full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within a multi‑disciplinary care setting.
- Experience working in community and in‑patient settings across the lifespan.
- Experience within a multi‑disciplinary or multi‑agency context.
- Experience working with adults and/or children and young people in a medical setting, presenting with a full range of clinical severity.
Skills
- Complex psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, and management requiring sustained concentration.
- Communication and professional relationship skills at multiple levels.
- Analytical and judgement skills for complex clinical decision‑making.
- Planning and organisational skills to manage caseloads and professional demands.
- Evidence of service development and innovation.
- Awareness and commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, particularly for marginalised groups.
Specialist Knowledge
- Doctoral‑level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory, practice, assessment, therapies and their application across settings.
- Doctoral‑level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
- Well‑developed specialist knowledge of psychological models and therapies for patients with medical conditions across the lifespan.
- Knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology in relation to medical problems and working in a medical setting.
Personal Qualities
- Commitment to and interest in working with people who have medical conditions.
- Awareness and appreciation of diversity, representation and inclusion.
- Commitment to continuing professional development, service innovation and development.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to promoting inclusion, ensuring all staff feel a sense of belonging. Applications from under‑represented groups are encouraged. All applicants, regardless of disability, sex, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, or marital status, are considered equally.
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Cardiff and Vale University Health Board invites applications for a permanent, full-time HCPC Registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (or Neuropsychologist) to join our established multi‑disciplinary community brain injury team.
Main Duties
- Provide specialised psychology services to adults with complex brain injury living in the community.
- Deliver psychological and neuropsychological assessments and interventions for patients and their families.
- Offer advice and consultation to the multi‑disciplinary team, working within national and professional guidelines.
- Supervise junior members of the team and manage clinical governance and development agenda.
- Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within UHB guidance.
- Engage in complex psychological assessments, formulation and treatment on an individual and group basis; work in multi‑disciplinary contexts, provide consultancy, liaison, research, teaching, and supervision.
- Provide supervision and teaching to doctoral trainee clinical psychologists as a lead supervisor.
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 equivalent).
- Eligibility for HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
- Pre‑ or post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
Experience
- Post‑qualification experience as an HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist.
- Full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within a multi‑disciplinary care setting.
- Experience working in community and in‑patient settings across the lifespan.
- Experience within a multi‑disciplinary or multi‑agency context.
- Experience working with adults and/or children and young people in a medical setting, presenting with a full range of clinical severity.
Skills
- Complex psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, and management requiring sustained concentration.
- Communication and professional relationship skills at multiple levels.
- Analytical and judgement skills for complex clinical decision‑making.
- Planning and organisational skills to manage caseloads and professional demands.
- Evidence of service development and innovation.
- Awareness and commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, particularly for marginalised groups.
Specialist Knowledge
- Doctoral‑level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory, practice, assessment, therapies and their application across settings.
- Doctoral‑level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
- Well‑developed specialist knowledge of psychological models and therapies for patients with medical conditions across the lifespan.
- Knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology in relation to medical problems and working in a medical setting.
Personal Qualities
- Commitment to and interest in working with people who have medical conditions.
- Awareness and appreciation of diversity, representation and inclusion.
- Commitment to continuing professional development, service innovation and development.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to promoting inclusion, ensuring all staff feel a sense of belonging. Applications from under‑represented groups are encouraged. All applicants, regardless of disability, sex, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, or marital status, are considered equally.
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