Job Summary
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 practitionerpsychologist, 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, teachingand project work.
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 theclient’s care. This may require assessing children and their families in a number of settings including clinic, home and school/childcare setting.
About us
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:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.
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.
Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).
Community facilities, including:
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.
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Degree in Psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychology Society (Graduation Basis for Chartered Status)
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Essential
- Experience of having worked as an assistant psychologist, or very similar work may be considered.
Desirable
- 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
- Welsh Speaker ( level 1 )
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- 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
- High standard of report writing.
- A desire to explore a career in professional psychology.
Other
Essential
- An ability to travel around the footprint of the Health Board in a timely manner.
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.
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 resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 13 January 2024
