Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling)
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan, CF24 0SZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | H9001-25-0560 |
Summary
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 This is a fixed term post for 12 months to cover the needs of the service 1. To provide a highly specialised psychological service to the Perinatal Community Health service within Cardiff and Vale UHB and to be a core member of the team. This service will be to individual mothers and their families, and involving other people as appropriate, and this service might be provided at a range of locations, including patients homes and other sites as appropriate. 2. To provide highly specialised psychological assessment to aid problem definition, understanding a diagnosis where appropriate and aid care planning. This may involve disclosing the outcome to the patient and/or family member and the provision of specialist psychological advice to facilitate adjustment to this information. 3. To advise on, provide specialist consultation to, and deliver appropriate psychological strategies to manage psychological problems impacting those with perinatal mental health conditions and to help patients and/or family members in their use. T 4. To assess patients for psychological therapy and/or behaviour management across a broad range of mental health/psychological problems and to independently select and employ appropriate assessment methods (e.g. applied behavioural analysis, clinical interview, rating scales, etc.). This frequently involves gathering information from a variety of sources (e.g. the patient, her family and care staff) and examining the patients difficulties in relation to these contexts. Frequent and prolonged periods of intense concentration will be necessary. 5. To individually formulate the patients problems based on the highly complex information and perspectives gathered during the assessment and drawing on psychological theory and research. This will form the basis of therapy and will be guided by further review and reformulation. 6. To develop individual psychological therapy based on the formulation and to adapt this according to further review/reformulation. 7. To plan, coordinate and implement a range of different types of highly specialist therapies (e.g. cognitive-behavioural, systemic, etc.) according to the patients problem/situation. This will frequently involve exposure to highly distressing and emotive information, e.g. regarding bereavement, trauma, abuse, etc. and will necessitate frequent and prolonged periods sitting in a constrained position. Frequent and prolonged periods of intense concentration will also be necessary. 8. To maintain and continue to develop high level therapeutic skills across a broad range of mental health/psychological problems and to adapt therapeutic input accordingly, especially those most relevant to perinatal mental health. 9. To plan and coordinate therapeutic group programmes where relevant and involving non-psychologist colleagues as fully as possible within the service. 10. To be responsible for the development and co-ordination of highly specialised programmes of psychological care for individual clients in various settings including the community, hospitals, and residential/nursing home settings. This will necessitate assessment and consultation to staff plus provision of psychological expertise for ongoing support, monitoring, adaptation and evaluation of programmes. 11. To provide regular clinical and professional supervision of assistant psychologists and clinical psychology trainees and manage and coordinate their day-to-day work within the CPMH service. 12. To provide specialist training for staff and carers on a variety of topics. This will require planning, organising and delivering training for a varied audience. 13. To provide specialist psychological consultation in relation to individual patients, including helping them to develop team formulations of patients problems. 14. To initiate and conduct service-related psychological research/audit into areas relevant to the work of perinatal mental health conditions within UHB/Directorate guidance. This may involve the input and storage of data on computer system. 15. To take an active part in evaluation and audit as part of clinical governance within UHB guidance. 16. To provide research opportunities to trainee clinical/counselling psychologists while on placement and to assist in developing and implementing a research idea within UHB guidance.