Principal Practitioner Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Practitioner Psychologist to work within our Forensic Mental Health and Psychiatric Intensive Care Specialities. The successful candidate will play a key role in the development and provision of psychological services to adult inpatients of the Cwm Seren LSU and PICU in Carmarthen, and in providing support to multidisciplinary teams involved in this setting. This will include the community based Forensic Mental Health Team.

We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring Psychologist who can not only deliver high quality assessments, formulations and interventions, but can share psychological understanding and skills with colleagues. They will be joining a welcoming and dedicated Psychology Speciality with a commitment to personal and professional development and a robust sense of professional identity. We are driven by values of respect and compassion as we work towards increasing access to high quality, evidence-based help for individuals and their carers.

Main duties of the job

The key objective of this post is to ensure that people with serious and enduring mental health problems are appropriately assessed, supported and treated, and that they are helped to regain their place in the local community and to achieve their full potential as members of that community.

The postholder will lead on the provision of specialist psychological assessment and intervention to clients admitted to the Cwm Seren LSU and PICU in Carmarthen, working therapeutically with individuals, groups, families and significant others to meet the full range of referred needs.

Emphasis will also be placed on contributing to service development, care and treatment planning, and on providing consultation, training and supervision to multidisciplinary teams. The postholder will ensure that all members of the treatment team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the Service, and will act as a Specialist Resource for clinical-forensic psychological risk evaluation and management. They will provide specialist advice to other Psychology Services, inpatient and community teams, including liaison and support to the community Forensic Mental Health Team, and other multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.

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 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 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;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres