Assistant Clinical Psychologist

3 weeks ago


Caerphilly, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

Assistant Clinical Psychologist

Salary: £25,950 per annum (£18,936 per annum pro-rata)

Location: Gwent

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2026 - 27 hours per week

Benefits:

  • 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
  • Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

About the role

Our Assistant Clinical Psychologists, support the Clinical Psychologist in the team and hold a small caseload of young people and families across Gwent, providing direct therapeutic work as well as specialist assessments.

The Assistant Clinical Psychologist will also join the Clinical Psychologist in the delivery of training and sharing good practice.

The post will be supervised by the Clinical Psychologist, and we will support you to access additional training relevant to the role.

The position is a challenging and exciting role, which offers the opportunity for development in a range of skills and competencies, which includes access to Aneurin Bevan Health Board and Child and Family Psychology and therapies department.

About the service

Action for Children's Gwent Family Intervention Team is a targeted early intervention therapeutic service for children, young people and their families aged 3-16 delivering across Caerphilly. Our work is underpinned by psychological therapies including attachment, systemic psychotherapy, and behavioural approaches.

Our aim is to reduce the development of more entrenched mental health issues by delivering high quality therapeutic family support which can involve one to one support with parent and child, as well as whole family sessions.

The service offers needs-led interventions that are focused on each family being regarded as unique using formulation and curiosity approaches to help build an understanding of the context that the family live in. We aim to empower families to help support relationships, improve communication patterns, build on resilience, and explore healthy ways to communicate feelings and emotions.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

  • Delivering evidence-based individual interventions with the aim of alleviating psychological distress and promoting psychological wellbeing.
  • Contributing to multidisciplinary team discussions about young person's emotional wellbeing, risk, and development of psychological formulations
  • Attending and contributing to weekly team meetings and case discussions
  • Participating in clinically relevant research, service evaluation and audit projects and provide information regarding clinically effective interventions by competently undertaking literature reviews and internet and library facilities
  • Maintaining the clinical outcomes database and supporting the Clinical psychologist as required.

Let's talk about you

  • Undergraduate degree in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
  • Knowledge of Psychological theories and practices
  • Excellent writing, communication and organization skills
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Adaptable and proactive in professional development
  • A commitment to improving the lives of young people and a passion to help improve their emotional

Good to know 

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Application Process: There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Talent Pool: We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.

Contact: Scott Jones via email at quoting reference 10364

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

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