Senior Practitioner Psychologist

An opportunity has arisen for Senior Practitioner Psychologists to join two of our well-established CMHTs on a permanent basis.

To provide specialist psychological services to adults with significant psychological difficulties who meet referral criteria for accessing assessment and intervention from CMHT. This includes face to face work with individuals, families, significant others, consultation work advising staff of other disciplines on the psychological aspects of casework and service user interventions. It involves conducting highly specialist psychological assessments and the delivery of appropriate therapeutic interventions for the full range of difficulties experienced by service users.

To work with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the implementation of an individualised intervention and management plan that meets the service user’s needs and be responsible for ongoing assessment and monitoring of clinical outcomes, in order to evaluate interventions provided by the multi-disciplinary team and, along with the lead psychologist, to improve services.

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

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 specialty 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. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

A full overview of duties is available in the attached job description but includes:

- To provide highly specialist assessment and intervention.
- To be responsible for identifying, providing or organising, and monitoring teaching, training and supervision to staff within the multi-disciplinary team.
- To provide clinical leadership to the staff within the multi-disciplinary team where requested by the Principal Psychologist or Head of Adult Psychology.
- To conduct and supervise research and audit, and to develop and evaluate new clinical interventions, as a major responsibility of the job. To participate in relevant research/audit groups, as required by the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division or Adult Psychology Specialty.