Job summary
- Main area
- Health Psychology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (to meet the needs of the service)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-ACS207-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £28,834 - £35,099 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist Critical Care
Band 5
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We have 2 exciting opportunities for full-time, Band 5 Senior Assistant Psychologists, 12 month fixed-term contract post, within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Critical Care Psychology Service.
If you're passionate about the NHS and want a role that is both supporting patients and their families who have been through ITU in their ongoing recovery, and leading on projects to support staff wellbeing, this is the role for you.
Main duties of the job
We will be delivering both 1:1 anxiety and trauma therapy with some of the latest NICE recognised treatment protocols and also, offering groups to help people to live well and to do the things that are important to them. You will be working alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Highly Specialist / Principal Clinical Psychologist (to be appointed) and there are numerous research opportunities within this friendly and psychologically minded team.
We have close links with primary mental health and the third sector. You must be willing to travel as we cover an extensive and beautiful geographical area from coast to mountains.
The post is located professionally and managerially with the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Psychology Service. The Health Psychology Service is growing rapidly with current posts in a number of different services in addition to critical care, including cancer/palliative care, cardiac rehabilitation, neuropsychology, paediatrics, weight management and employee wellbeing, plus further new developments in additional specialities, such as diabetes.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months to meet the needs of the service.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in TRAC.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a physical health setting
Aptitude and abilities
Essential criteria
- Competence in research design and methodologies
- High level communication skills both in spoken and written communication
- Ability to communicate complex, sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues
- Understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with physical health difficulties
- Ability to use word processing and computer packages for both report writing, layout
Desirable criteria
- Ability to carry out behavioural observations and assessments using a standard format
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Michelle Smalley
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Critical Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443475
- Additional information
Feel free to have an informal chat with our other Assistant Psychologists in the team on the above telephone number.
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