Consultant Psychologist CMHT's

The post holder will take a key leadership role and work closely with senior leaders in the CTMUHB Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Care Group to develop a service for adults within the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT's) that is trauma informed. Applications are welcome from people keen to develop as a visible leader within mental health services. Request for increased hours will be considered. The post holder will be responsible for psychological provision to adults within the CMHT's, ensuring the delivery of a specialist psychology interventions and supporting multi-disciplinary care that is psychologically informed. This will involve providing leadership, direct supervision and working with stakeholders to identify service priorities. The post holder will join a team of senior psychologists within the MH&LD Care Group and professional development opportunities will be supported. The CMHT's are currently undertaking a review of their service design and therefore this is an exciting time to help develop services. CMHT's psychologists are currently engaged in a period of service development where there are many opportunities to oversee projects to help shape the future of CMHT psychological provision. The CMHT psychology service is made up of clinical and counselling psychologists, HIT's, APs and CAAPs. We also have close links with both the clinical and counselling doctorate courses in South Wales, consistently have trainees on placement., The post holder will act as a senior clinical manager within the CMHT psychology provision, offering line management to clinical and counselling psychologists, and supporting training placements, to ensure a seamless provision of healthcare. The post holder will be responsible for the recruitment of staff, providing and/or ensuring appropriate line management and supervision (professional and clinical) is in place for all members of the CMHT psychology specialty. The role of the post holder will ensure compliance with clinical governance of the work delivered and play a strategic part in the development of the CMHT psychology provision. The role will include clinical work that will be delivered by establishing the psychological needs within the service and collecting evidence in relation to outcomes and added value with a view to service developments in that area. The clinical role will also involve consultation to other professionals, training, and multi-disciplinary work in relation to staff support. The post holder will actively engage in service development and seek opportunities for developing a training and recruitment strategy to widen access for psychological therapies. This will include developing service proposals and funding bids for the Health Board, Welsh Government and other funding streams.

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

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.