Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 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

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
• Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial and demonstrable post-qualification experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience working within Neuropsychiatric services.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified healthcare professional and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users as co-producers

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Ability to use 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 and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times.
• Able to take responsibility for managing and providing a specialist service, or systematically providing part of a larger service
• Ability to make clinical and service-related judgments involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options
• Ability to plan and organise a range of clinical or service-related activities and programmes

Desirable

• Knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups that are difficult to treat.
• High level of knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialist psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to client group and mental health.

Knowledge

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Evidence of significant post-qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
• Well-developed specialist knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology theory and practice, assessment, and the application of specialised psychological therapies related to the needs of patients within Neuropsychiatric services
• Specialist knowledge of psychometric test construction, development, validation, administration and clinical interpretation of the results.
• Formal Training and supervision of other psychologists.

Desirable

• Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Commitment to and interest in working with people with older adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties and/or dementia.
• Willingness to participate in continuing professional development & psychologists working in similar team settings
• Requirement to undertake frequent exposure to emotionally distressing and traumatic situations.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh and willingness to use in a work context

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have ...