Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 100-ACS318-1224
- Employer
- Hywel Dda University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glangwili General Hospital
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 5
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.Ìý
Hywel Dda University Health Board reserve the right to close vacancies after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. We encourage early applications to ensure consideration for a post.
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Job overview
To assist the Practitioner Psychologist(s) in the professional psychological care of children and families within Paediatrics, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified practitionerÌýpsychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the Paediatric Psychology policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching
and project work.Ìý
Main duties of the job
To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of children and families under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist, applying psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in theÌý
client’s care. This may require assessing children and their families in a number of settings including clinic, home and school/childcare setting.
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Working for our organisation
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:
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Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.
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Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire, Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.
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Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).
Community facilities, including:
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48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes.
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Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To help formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s needs, (mental health, learning disabilities and developmental needs), based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, under the supervision of the qualified practitioner psychologist.Ìý
To undertake risk assessments as required under the supervision of the qualified practitioner psychologist and to develop risk management plans.Ìý
To assist in the evaluation and decision making about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models, and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group.
To work with other staff to assess clients in community and hospital settings, and to review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
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You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. ÌýIn our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
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The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
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Interviews will be held on 23/01/2025
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree in Psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychology Society (Graduation Basis for Chartered Status)
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of having worked as an assistant psychologist, or very similar work may be considered.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families.
- Experience of conducting psychometric assessments
- Experience of having worked within the NHS.
Language Skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker ( level 1 )
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Counselling skills
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to clients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological High standard of report writing. A desire to explore a career in professional psychology. Application form and Interview 8 resistance.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of children and families where there are mental health problems or developmental difficulties.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a child and family context.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care
- Basic IT skills (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, graphing data)
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines
- An ability to interact with people with mental health problems.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to accept and use clinical supervision appropriately and effectively
Desirable criteria
- High standard of report writing.
- A desire to explore a career in professional psychology.
Other
Essential criteria
- An ability to travel around the footprint of the Health Board in a timely manner.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Julian Jeremy
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07443296905
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