Assistant Clinical Psychologist

Assistant Clinical Psychologist

Salary: £25,950 per annum (£18,936 per annum pro-rata)

Location: Gwent

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2026 - 27 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

About the role

Our Assistant Clinical Psychologists support the Clinical Psychologist in the team and hold a small caseload of young people and families across Gwent, providing direct therapeutic work as well as specialist assessments.

The Assistant Clinical Psychologist will also join the Clinical Psychologist in the delivery of training and sharing good practice.

The post will be supervised by the Clinical Psychologist, and we will support you to access additional training relevant to the role.

The position is a challenging and exciting role, which offers the opportunity for development in a range of skills and competencies, which includes access to Aneurin Bevan Health Board and Child and Family Psychology and therapies department.

About the service

Action for Children's Gwent Family Intervention Team is a targeted early intervention therapeutic service for children, young people and their families aged 3-16 delivering across Caerphilly. Our work is underpinned by psychological therapies including attachment, systemic psychotherapy, and behavioural approaches.

Our aim is to reduce the development of more entrenched mental health issues by delivering high quality therapeutic family support which can involve one to one support with parent and child, as well as whole family sessions.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Delivering evidence-based individual interventions with the aim of alleviating psychological distress and promoting psychological wellbeing.
• Contributing to multidisciplinary team discussions about young person's emotional wellbeing, risk, and development of psychological formulations.
• Attending and contributing to weekly team meetings and case discussions.
• Participating in clinically relevant research, service evaluation and audit projects and provide information regarding clinically effective interventions by competently undertaking literature reviews and internet and library facilities.
• Maintaining the clinical outcomes database and supporting the Clinical Psychologist as required.

Let's talk about you

• Undergraduate degree in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
• Knowledge of Psychological theories and practices.
• Excellent writing, communication and organization skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Adaptable and proactive in professional development.
• A commitment to improving the lives of young people and a passion to help improve their emotional wellbeing.

Good to know

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Contact: Scott Jones via email quoting reference 10364.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children.