Clinical Practitioner Psychologist

Job summary

This role will be based at Llwyn Onn, St Cadoc's Hospital.

We have an exciting opportunity with a dedicated post working into the South East Wales Adoption Service. The Child and Family Psychology and Therapies Service already have a small and skilled team working into the adoption service offering training, consultation, reflective practice, workshops and direct therapy. We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative individual to join our welcoming team and offer all these services.

You should have a special interest in attachment-informed approaches and intervention and able to work across disciplines and agencies. If you are passionate about helping to make a difference to the lives of adopted children, young people and their families we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Are you interested in the following?

• A service dedicated to enacting a strong values base.
• Warm, supportive atmosphere
• Being part of a large, dynamic and forward-thinking Child and Family Psychology Department
• Immersion in a high level of psychological thinking from a range of different psychological models
• Passion for working with children and families in their context of living
• Lively CPD activity
• Regular peer review, support and supervision
• Sense of fun and belonging
• Highly valued service
• Strong links with other agencies
• Promote innovative thinking and creativity - working towards transformation
• Opportunities for joint working
• Balance of direct work with children and families and strategic preventative planning, projects and consultation and service development
• Strong involvement with south Wales Doctoral Training Programme for Supervision, teaching and CPD events.

The post will be based at the Child and Family Psychology and Therapies Service near Newport in South East Wales 15 miles from Cardiff, and offers a service to the boroughs of Monmouthshire, Newport, Caerphilly, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent. Living in South East Wales offers the full range of lifestyle choice from the lively city life (Cardiff and Newport) to the mountains and rivers of the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains. We are ten minutes from the M4 with easy access to Bristol and Cardiff.

Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply

About us

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.