Clinical Practitioner Psychologist

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Abersychan; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board seeks a passionate Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist for the Gwent Regional My Support Team Programme. The role involves providing psychological support for children in care, contributing to a multidisciplinary team, and enhancing mental health services. Candidates with both experience and academic qualifications are encouraged to apply for this rewarding position.

Benefits

Extensive training and development opportunities

Flexible working

Occupational health support

Wellbeing Centre of Excellence

Qualifications

• Doctorate training across various client groups including children.
• Significant experience within Child and Family Psychology Services.
• Completed at least 10 relevant training days per year.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the psychology service for children with complex mental health needs.
• Provide psychological assessments and intervention planning.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Therapeutic intervention

Communication

Education

Honours degree in Psychology

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Graduate status with BPS

HCPC Registered

Tools

Psychological assessment tools

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist to join our psychology service provision in the Gwent Regional My Support Team (MyST) Programme. It is a specialist mental health service for children and young people who are looked after by their local authority, typically in foster or residential care, or who have extensive involvement from children’s social care. MyST is a based multi-agency partnership that involves the whole system in the care of its young people. It is a value based, relational model of community care, co-creating enabling environments that promote inclusion, involvement, a sense of belonging and agency, a culture of enquiry, openness, and a quality of safety for all.

This Fulfilling Job Would Best Suit a Candidate Who

• Is passionate about working psychologically with young people, families and their whole systems.
• Is highly motivated to support children looked after or on the edge of care.
• Wants to contribute to a values driven approach.
• Enjoys working innovatively.
• Believes in using psychology to empower others to realise their potential.
• Places relationships at the heart of their practice.
• Wants to belong to working culture which cares for and supports practitioners and their development.
• And, wants to help bring about life changing shifts for children and families.
  
  

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

You will contribute to the psychology service provision into the Regional Programme for children who are looked after and have complex mental health needs.

Our role is to enable our multidisciplinary team colleagues to provide the quality of psychological work to our service users. Our Psychologists do this by providing psychological assessment, formulation, clinical intervention planning, direct therapeutic work with children and families, consultation, clinical supervision, reflective practice, training, audit and research into the MyST Regional Programme.

You will be a valued member of the Gwent Child & Family Psychology & Therapies Service, which is a thriving and supportive team with a wide variety of psychological service strands and specialisms. There is a caring and compassionate culture and a strong track record in developing and delivering excellent psychological services for children, their families and the professionals in systems which support them. Many of our psychologists are longstanding with our service, which supports continued professional development and values the wellbeing of our staff. Within MyST, you will sit within a small team of friendly, nurturing and dynamic Psychologists, and you will work in a fantastic, dedicated MyST building, with excellent resources.

This post is being advertised as a Band 8A but we invite less experienced applicants to apply with a view to starting on Band 7 and to commit to a plan to develop into the Band 8A role.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

This post is being advertised as a Band 8A but we invite less experienced applicants to apply with a view to starting on Band 7 and to commit to a plan to develop into the Band 8A role.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Honours degree in Psychology.
• Graduate status with BPS.
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the BPS, or equivalent accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC Registered
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Other related academic qualifications
• IT skills training
• A post graduate research degree
• Training in clinical supervision
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Doctorate training across a range of client groups but must include children.
• Significant experience of working in Child and Family Psychology Services.
• Has completed at least 10 training days per year on courses relevant to the provision of Child and Family Psychology and Therapies Service.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post qualification work experience in a relevant clinical or care setting.
• Post qualification experience of working in Child Psychology specialising in working with children looked after/involved with Social Care services.
• Has obtained further experience of working within other Clinical Psychology specialities e.g. services for vulnerable adults, school based psychology services, youth offending services.