Senior Practitioner Psychologist inLlanfrechfa inLlanfrechfa PUBLISHED
THU 16 JAN 2025
Opportunity to provide specialist psychological services to individuals with significant psychological difficulties, contributing to their mental well-being.
Collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team, enhancing professional relationships and knowledge exchange.
Access to extensive training and development opportunities, including recognized qualifications and in-house programs.
Flexible working arrangements that promote a healthy work-life balance, making it easier to manage personal and professional commitments.
Working in a highly regarded NHS organization that supports and values its employees, fostering a supportive and caring work environment.
Opportunity to take on clinical leadership roles and mentor other staff members, enhancing your professional growth and impact.
The role of Senior Practitioner Psychologist at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Llanfrechfa involves providing specialized psychological services to adults facing significant psychological challenges, working primarily within a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). Key responsibilities include conducting psychological assessments, delivering therapeutic interventions, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to create individualized intervention plans. Additionally, the role encompasses the provision of training, supervision, and clinical leadership to team members, along with ongoing assessment of clinical outcomes to ensure effective service delivery.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourages applications from individuals with protected characteristics and the Armed Forces Community. The organisation offers a supportive environment with flexible working arrangements, comprehensive benefits, and numerous opportunities for professional development. With a focus on integrated care for a population of approximately 650,000, the health board aims to promote a healthy work-life balance and enhance community-based care as part of its ambitious Clinical Futures strategy.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourages applications from individuals with protected characteristics and the Armed Forces Community. The organisation offers a supportive environment with flexible working arrangements, comprehensive benefits, and numerous opportunities for professional development. With a focus on integrated care for a population of approximately 650,000, the health board aims to promote a healthy work-life balance and enhance community-based care as part of its ambitious Clinical Futures strategy.
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.
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 note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
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 psychological assessments and the delivery of appropriate therapeutic interventions for the full range of difficulties experienced by service users.
Main duties of the job
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 improve services.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.
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 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. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
English
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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 note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
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 psychological assessments and the delivery of appropriate therapeutic interventions for the full range of difficulties experienced by service users.
Main duties of the job
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 improve services.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.
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 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. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
English
Essential criteria
- Valid registration
- Previous Experience
- Welsh
Essential criteria
- Minimum 2 years experience
- Team work
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