Senior Practitioner Psychologist (Counselling or Clinical)

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Chepstow; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is seeking a Senior Practitioner Psychologist (Counselling or Clinical) for a permanent role within the Adult Mental Health Specialty in Chepstow. The successful candidate will provide specialist psychological services and develop clinical expertise in a supportive environment focused on professional growth.

Benefits

Extensive training and development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Healthy work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience in working with adults with significant mental health difficulties.
• Experience in supervising others.
• Ability to maintain relationships across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality assessments, formulations, and interventions.
• Facilitate team formulation and lead an element of the clinical service.
• Support service development and evaluation.

Skills

Communication of complex information

Training experience

Awareness of mental health policy

Education

Undergraduate Degree in Psychology

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Masters Degree or Post-graduate training (desirable)

Job description

Senior Practitioner Psychologist (Counselling or Clinical)

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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

An opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist (Counselling or Clinical) to join the Adult Mental Health Speciality in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will support the continued development and provision of specialist psychological services to adults living in Lower Monmouthshire.

The post is advertised as Band 8a, but we would also invite newly qualified applicants with significant past experience to apply and start the role on Band 7. Candidates who do not quite meet the threshold to be offered the role at 8a level may also be offered the 8a role on Annex 21 with a clear plan of development to progress to Band 8a.

The post-holder will be part of a robust psychology team embedded in a CMHT, and the wider 'family' of the adult psychology speciality. You will need to be flexible, creative, and keen to learn. The ability to maintain good working relationships across multiple disciplines and areas of work is essential. In return, you will benefit from a supportive team which aims to nurture professional growth whilst ensuring a high standard of service provision.

This role will provide a chance to focus on an area of clinical expertise or special interest alongside developing broader relationships and partnerships to support service development and evaluation.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a thoughtful and dynamic psychologist who can not only deliver high quality assessments, formulations and interventions but can help others do the same.

The successful candidates would be joining a busy, welcoming CMHT as well as a cohesive Psychology speciality with a commitment to personal and professional development and a robust sense of professional identity. We have interests and highly specialist skills in a range of psychological therapies including CAT, DBT, MBT, EMDR and MBCT and welcome applications from individuals who are keen to further develop their clinical expertise and achieve accreditation in an evidence-based model of psychological therapy.

The Lower Monmouthshire psychology team has particular interests in EDMR, DBT & CBT, as well as delivering other evidence based therapies. The wider team are trauma informed and are working to support the delivery of psychologically informed care as well as evidence-based interventions. The team are particularly keen for a Senior Psychologist to facilitate team formulation and lead an element of the clinical service, this role therefore provides a prime opportunity to strengthen leadership skills.

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

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.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Undergraduate Degree (in psychology or conversion)
• Graduate Basis for Registration
• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Masters Degree or Post-graduate training
• Accreditation in a model of psychological therapy
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in training or subsequently of working across the lifespan
• Pre- or post-qualification experience of working with adults with significant MH diffs
• Experience in supervising others.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Service development
• MDT working
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate complex information orally or in writing
• Awareness of strategy and policy relevant to mental health
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Welsh language ability

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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