Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our service in North East Wales . This is a senior role with responsibility for the operational leadership of psychological provision within the service, ensuring high standards of clinical governance, quality, and the effective day-to-day running of psychological care. The postholder will play a key role within the multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing psychological expertise to inform assessment, formulation, and treatment planning, while maintaining a clinical caseload involving both individual therapeutic work and the delivery of structured pain management programmes.

Main duties of the job

In addition to clinical and operational responsibilities, the successful candidate will provide professional leadership through the line management and clinical supervision of junior clinical psychologists and trainees, supporting their development and ensuring safe, effective practice. This is an excellent opportunity to shape service delivery, embed evidence-based psychological approaches, and contribute to the ongoing development of psychologically informed care within a collaborative and forward-thinking team.

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

Working for our organisation

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The postholder will also be part of BCUHB Psychology and Psychological Services for Physical Health, a supportive, friendly, and growing department of Practitioner Psychologists working across physical health services. The department maintains strong links with the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, offering excellent opportunities for collaboration, professional development, and service innovation. This role provides an ideal opportunity to take a lead in shaping and developing Pain Management Psychology provision within North East Wales.

Person specification

Qualifications And/or Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good Honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for BPS Chartered status.


• Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist


• Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS


• Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees


• Attendance at formal management and health leadership training programmes


• Doctoral level advanced specialist knowledge of clinical psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation, research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical psychology


• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC

Desirable criteria

• Advanced training in research design and methodology


• Record of publications in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Experience

Essential criteria

• Appropriate experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist, including substantial supervised post-qualification expertise and experience within the Health Clinical Psychology field


• Sufficient experience to demonstrate a level of competence to satisfy the assessment requirements of up to two BPS/DoH National Assessors in Clinical Psychology for entrance into Consultant Grade


• Additional specialist supervised training, research or study, specialist courses and clinical supervision in the Health Clinical Psychology

Aptitude And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times


• Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships


• Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings


• Ability to prepare and present clinical and academic material for lecturing/training purposes


• Ability to make clinical and service-related judgements involving highly complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of several options


• Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex clinical or service-related activities and programmes, some of which may be long-term


• Ability to manage Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within [clinical service area] Clinical Psychology Service

Desirable criteria

• Ability to speak Welsh

Values

Essential Criteria

• Able to demonstrate a range of qualities essential to the role.