Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist

There is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner psychologist to work in a band 8b role in the Liaison Psychiatry for Older People (LPOP) service. The LPOP team work at the interface between medical/physical health and mental health. They offer assessments and interventions to people with mental health needs on medical wards across University Hospital Llandough (UHL) and University Hospital of Wales (UHW) and work closely with medical and nursing teams.

This post would be well suited to a psychologist with an interest in working with clinical health psychology presentations and with people in their later life who require complex formulation around physical and mental health. There are opportunities for the psychologist to be offering psychological and cognitive assessments.

The successful candidate will play an important role within the LPOP leadership team alongside the Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Lead and Clinical Lead and will help in supporting this proactive team with service development and improvement endeavours.

The successful candidate will offer psychological input to the LPOP team in the following ways:

Direct clinical work

• Offering psychological and cognitive assessment, formulation and brief psychological intervention where relevant
• Joint working with Occupational Therapist, Specialist Liaison Nurses and/or Consultant Psychiatrist/medical colleagues, all of whom work within the LPOP MDT.
  
  

Indirect clinical work

• Complex case discussion and team formulation
• Working closely with the clinical lead and team lead to offer teaching and training to the LPOP team and ward teams where relevant
• Offering informal team consultation regarding complex presentations
• Supervision of the Assistant Psychologist
• Supporting with service development and improvement projects
  
  

The successful candidate will be a member of the Older Adult Psychology which has psychologists and therapists working across a range of different areas including Dementia services (including the Memory Team and the Young Onset Dementia service), Mental Health Services for Older People, Elderly Care Assessment Service and Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder service, Stroke Services, Neuropsychiatry and Care Home Liaison.

The specialty is part of a large and progressive health board wide Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies. Continued professional development is strongly encouraged and supported as is excellent opportunity for supervision and training.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Clare Quinn Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Head of Specialty Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 029 2182 5789