Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (or development role)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to come and join our All Age Eating Disorder Service. Would you like to join a passionate and supportive multidisciplinary team that works throughout Powys, offering assessments and evidence-based interventions to children, young people and adults referred to Powys mental health teams with an eating disorder?

You should have significant post qualification experience of providing psychological assessment, highly specialist interventions, supervision and consultation.  You will need to be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Our Psychology and Psychological Therapies Team places a strong emphasis on staff wellbeing and supporting personal and professional development.

Powys is a unique and beautiful place to live and work, with a small population across a large geographical area. This presents us with specific challenges that require creativity, flexibility and innovative ideas. You will be supported to embrace the opportunity this provides for individual clinicians to have a real impact on services and the experiences of our service users.

Applicants who do not currently meet all the essential criteria for the Band 8a role are encouraged to apply and, if successful, will be appointed under Agenda for Change Annex 21, and subject to an individualised competence development plan.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service for people struggling with eating disorders across the age range and across a variety of settings i.e. including home, community and education contexts.

Offer advice, consultation and supervision on this client group’s psychological care to psychology colleagues, non-psychology colleagues and other nonprofessional carers.

Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.

Propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

Utilise doctoral level skills for audit, policy and service development, research and supervision.

Ability to work across Powys, conducting clinics across the county, and able to meet the travel commitments of the post.

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.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.