Job summary
- Main area
- Older Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-PST089-1025
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Siriol
- Town
- Pontypool
- Salary
- £78,120 - £90,013 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/11/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8c
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.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]
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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process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
We are excited to invite applications for a Consultant Practitioner Psychologist to join our wonderful team comprising Psychologists, Arts Therapists and administrators, providing psychological interventions to Older Adults across Gwent.
You will be joining a warm, supportive and skilled team of colleagues who are passionate about providing the best service possible to older adults, through psychological and arts therapies interventions, neuropsychological assessment and wider service supports.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
In this role, you would be leading our colleagues that provide psychological input into the community part of our service, our CMHT and MAS teams across the five boroughs of Gwent.
You will be a compassionate leader, ensuring the wellbeing of our colleagues. You will be focused on developing our services to ensure the highest standards and quality are delivered across all aspects of our work. You will bring inspiration, commitment, passion, and a flexible and reflective mindset.
The role involves managing and supervising colleagues within the team, enabling them to achieve their best work. Alongside this, you will ensure strong clinical governance.
We will support you fully in your role to achieve this, through the Head of Service and senior leadership team.
You will also have access to a wide resource of psychologists and psychological practitioners across our wider Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division, and training and supervision opportunities that exist in the wider Health Board. We endeavour to help and support each other as much as possible, and the expertise across this network is outstanding!
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will lead the team in providing psychological input to the community aspects of our service, ensuring appropriate and skilled neuropsychological assessments to understand potential cognitive decline, and therapeutic interventions for a range of presenting difficulties, including, but not limited to, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and physical health difficulties.
You will also hold your own caseload, and contribute widely to service development, teaching and training, audit and research, as well as supervision and management across this aspect of our services.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Appropriate Undergraduate and Doctoral Qualifications in Clinical Psychology or Equivalent
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Further relevant training in a formal psychological therapy
- Additional further academic or research qualifications
- Leadership / Management Training
Essential
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification clinical experience working with Older Adults
- Evidence of regular ongoing CPD
- Advanced expertise in an specific and relevant area of clinical practice
- Neuropsychological Assessment Experience
Desirable criteria
- Management and Leadership experience
- Strategic planning and service improvement experience
- Experience in training and supervising of other psychologists
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Advanced skill in working with Older Adults specific needs
- Ability to formulate and intervene when there is complexity and multiple courses of action
- Communicates with warmth and empathy
- Able to provide leadership and direction for the service
- Ability to cope with high levels of stress and difficult and emotional situations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jayne Williams
- Job title
- Head of Specialty, Older Adult Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07581061942
- Additional information
For an informal discussion and more information, please contact Dr Jayne Williams.
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