Community Veterans Mental Health Therapist

7 days ago


Abergavenny, United Kingdom Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitable, experienced Psychological Therapist to join the Veterans NHS Wales Service (VNHSW) in AB UHB.

VNHSW is a specialist primary care service offering an outpatient psychological therapy service with signposting and/or referral to other NHS services, Veterans Welfare Agencies and Veteran Charities for additional support and intervention. The client group is ex-military personnel with mental health and social difficulties related to their military service.

The post holder will be part of the VNHSW Team and will work with local and national colleagues. They must be experienced, qualified and registered with a relevant professional body, for example, Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker/Psychologist OR BABCP accredited and / or EMDR accredited.

Offering veterans with military-related mental health difficulties evidence based psychological treatment in a given therapeutic modality through:
Providing highly specialist assessment of psychological distress and psychological needs

Formulating difficulties collaboratively with the patient and use this as a basis for a planned intervention

With consent, to share formulations with significant others including family, carers and other professionals where indicated

To provide and be supervised in high intensity and highly specialist psychological interventions

To support the supervision of colleagues including more junior members of the team or those aspiring to be in the profession in the health board.

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.



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