Would you like to work in a role where you are highly valued and able to use the full range of your psychological skills to effect radical change in children's lives? Yes? Then we have some great opportunities to join our passionate and caring team.

My Support Team (MyST) is a highly innovative Gwent-wide regional mental health service for children and young people who are looked after and have complex mental health and social needs. We are a multiagency multidisciplinary service which works in partnership to meet young people's mental health needs. We are a thriving, well established psychological service, and due to further investment in our approach, we are now expanding our teams.

If you ...

are passionate about working psychologically with young people, families and their whole systems

want to contribute to a values driven approach

enjoy working innovatively

believe in using psychology to empower others to realise their potential

place relationships at the heart of your practice

want to belong to working culture which cares for and supports practitioners and their development

and, want to help bring about life changing shifts for children and families

... then these roles are right for you.

Main duties of the job

Roles involve clinically leading on assessments, formulations & practice, providing clinical supervision & reflective practice groups, training & supporting others' development, clinical audit & research, advising on multiagency panels & about the development of the service. Also, direct practice & development of specialisms in psychological therapies, strong CPD, working alongside other MyST Clinical Psychologists and healthy interface with other areas of psychological service provision in ABUHB.

We welcome applications to work full or part time.

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. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

If you are interested in applying and would like to find out more, we are happy to be contacted to discuss the posts and/or to arrange visits. Please contact Joint Heads of Service Dr Gemma Burns or Dr Rachel Williams on 01633 436995. Find out more about MyST www.mysupportteam.org.uk or @MySTFostering.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in Psychology.
• Eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
• Doctorate in Psychology, accredited by the BPS, or equivalent accredited by the BPS.

Desirable

• Other related academic qualifications e.g. Masters in Systemic Family Therapy, Accreditation in DDP, DBT, ACT.
• Training in clinical supervision

Experience

Essential

• Three year Doctorial training across a range of client groups but must include Children, Adults, people with a Learning Disability and Older Age Adults.
• Substantial post qualification clinical experience of working with young people or young adults with a mental health disorder.
• Has completed at least 10 training days per year, on courses relevant to the provision of Adolescent/Young Adult Services.

Desirable

• Desirable: Experience of leading on an aspect of service development in a multi-agency/disciplinary setting.
• Experience of working in a multi-agency/disciplinary team.
• Experience of working with young people in Local Authority care.

Employer details

Employer name

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Address

Victoria Village School

Lower Harpers Road,

Abersychan

NP4 8PW

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040-PST068-0924