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Job overview
The Counselling and Psychological Therapies for Depression (CPTD) service, based at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, is a large, friendly team that offers counselling and a range of other psychological interventions to treat people experiencing depression. The service is excited to be able to offer new opportunities to join the service and support the team in service delivery and development.
The successful applicant will deliver psychological care to clients within CPTD, be involved in staff support and supervision, and support in the deliver and development of care pathways within the service. They will work closely with the clinical and operational management in providing service evaluation and development of psychological and psychosocial interventions, teaching, and staff support in the delivery of clinical care.
The post holder will deliver specific high-intensity evidence-based psychological interventions for patients within the service.
Applicants are encouraged to arrange an informal meeting to discuss the post via telephone or video .
Main duties of the job
To provide high intensity, specialist evidence-based psychological therapy interventions (requiring psychological therapist specialist training) and to support delivery of a pathway of condition specific care which will deliver high fidelity psychological interventions as designated in Matrics Cymru.
The post holder will be a highly skilled clinician with a breadth of mental health expertise in this field. They will contribute to this pathway of care by working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues in the development and implementation of specialist psychological therapy in the context of more complex care which address the physical, psychological and psychosocial needs of service users and their families/carers.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of undertaking assessments and providing evidence-based interventions.
- Experience in providing supervision / consultation for other clinicians.
- Experience of effective multidisciplinary / team working NHS / equivalent.
- Experience of participating in the planning and development of services.
- Experience of successful change management and dealing with conflict.
- Experienced in speaking & lecturing in public & professional forums.
Desirable
- Experience of research.
- Experience of working with families, drawing on a systemic knowledge and practice base.
Qualifications
Essential
- Meets essential qualifications as a psychological therapist as outlined in detail in the job description
Desirable
- Formal training in supervision
- Teaching qualification
Special Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge in relation to complex mental health disorders.
- Specialist skills in working with complex mental health problems.
- Skilled and experienced in providing clinical supervision to a range of clinicians.
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training, experience, and short courses.
- Knowledge of research design, methodology and analysis.
- Up to date knowledge of legislation, policy and professional issues pertinent to the area of specialism and its contexts.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strategic thinker
- Professional attitude.
- Able to lead complex communication processes where there are opposing views and significant barriers to acceptance and understanding.
- Able to focus and concentrate on complex issues on a daily basis and deliver high quality outcomes.
- Able to work consistently and therapeutically with frequent exposure to highly emotional, distressing and sensitive clinical circumstances.
- Practices equal opportunities and respect for others.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- High level communication and interpersonal skills to convey and receive complex, highly technical, sensitive information effectively at both a written and oral level.
- Skilled in working with people at all levels from all disciplines and interagency level.
- Ability to engage others in collaborative change processes
- High level of presentation and report writing skills for clinical and academic content in a range of contexts.
- Ability to make clinical and service-related judgements involving complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Ability to critically evaluate research evidence relating to clinical effectiveness and service development.
- Ability to plan, formulate, organise and implement a broad range of complex clinical and service-related operational activities, programmes and plans.
- Specialist skills in working with complex mental health problems.
- Skilled and experienced in providing clinical supervision to a range of clinicians.
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh/other non-English languages and a willingness to use this skill in the work context.
- Knowledge of research design, methodology and analysis.
- Experience in presenting papers in local and regional professional forums.
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This advert is for High Intensity Psychological Therapist with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £50,129 - £57,365 per annum, pro rata if part time. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Aug 2026.
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