Specialist​/Principal Practitioner Psychologist

Highly Specialist/Principal Practitioner Psychologist

Employer:

NHS Jobs

Location:

PONTYPRIDD, CF37 4AL

Pay:

£56,514.00 to £76,021.00 per year, £56514.00 - £76021.00 a year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

07/02/2026

Working within a highly specialised clinical area, to provide highly specialist psychological assessments of patients/clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the patients/clients care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients/clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.

Adjusting plans to meet assessed needs of patient/client.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients/clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients/clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To ensure that all members of the team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide general advice and second opinion to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care, some of who will be hostile, manipulative and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

Teaching, Training and Supervision:

To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologists attached to the team.

To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning.

To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology as appropriate.

To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development:

To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional…