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Job overview

Exciting opportunity for a passionate Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist to join our psychology service provision into the Gwent Regional My Support Team (MyST) Programme. MyST is an innovative Gwent-wide regional mental health service for children/young people who are looked after and have complex mental health and social needs. Our focus is to enable children/young people and their adult networks to develop and succeed through a range of direct psychological work and a whole systems approach to care. MyST provides an intensively supported family and community-based alternative to tier four care provision for children and young people up to the age of 21. MyST also works with Local Authority children’s homes in Caerphilly to provide the best possible quality of residential care to children who require this. The MyST Regional Programme works across a partnership of the five Local Authority areas of Gwent and Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

This fulfilling job would best suit a candidate who is: 

• passionate about working psychologically with young people, families and their whole systems.
• wants to contribute to a values driven approach.
• enjoys working innovatively
• believes in using psychology to empower others to realise their potential
•  places relationships at the heart of their practice
• wants to belong to working culture which cares for and supports practitioners and their development
• wants to help bring about life changing shifts for children and families.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist for MyST will lead the psychology service provision into the Regional Programme. This involves leading on the strategic development of this psychology service for children who are looked after and have complex mental health needs. The post holder will lead and manage our four established 8B Clinical Psychologists and a further two new psychology posts. Our role is to enable our multidisciplinary MyST team colleagues to provide the best possible quality of psychological work to our service users. Our Psychologists do this by providing psychological assessment, formulation, clinical intervention planning, direct therapeutic work with children and families, consultation, clinical supervision, reflective practice, training, audit and research into the MyST Regional Programme.

The post holder will be a valued member of the Gwent Child & Family Psychology & Therapies Service, which is a thriving and supportive team with a wide variety of psychological service strands and specialisms. There is a caring and compassionate culture and a strong track record in developing and delivering excellent psychological services for children, their families and the professionals in systems which support them. Many of our psychologists are longstanding with our service, which supports continued professional development and values the wellbeing of our staff.  

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.