Job Description

This new role reflects our commitment to the highest quality of care for all people receiving psychological intervention within the MH&LD care group. CTMUHB has 26 psychiatry trainees at any one time, all of whom are required to complete a short case (10-12 sessions) and long case (16-20) sessions during Core Training. T



0.6 WTE



Base = TBC at interview



The post holder will develop a system of governance that ensures quality of care and good training experience, supporting trainees to develop competences across two modalities. The post holder will be required to develop and implement a series of training sessions to CT1 in addition to providing clinical supervision (1:1 and group) to CT2 and CT3s. The post holder will also support the substantive medical workforce to maintain psychotherapy skills as required.



The post holder will be a member of the MH&LD care group Clinical Training Committee, working closely with the RcPsych College Tutor and RcPsych Psychotherapy Tutor.

Welsh Skills Desirable:

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.



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.



Work closely with the Head of Mental Health Psychology & Psychological Therapies to ensure quality of care for all service users. Provide supervision and training to core trainees in at least two psychotherapy modalities, holding clinical accountability for psychotherapy provided by core psychiatry trainees. Work closely with the Medical Director, psychotherapy tutor and college tutor, to co-ordinate and form the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities (MH&LD) psychiatry training committee.

For a more detailed description, please see the attached job description .