Overview
Due to a career break for one of our permanent staff, we have an opportunity for a secondment to join our team for 15 hours per week for a maximum of six months until the end of March 2026.
About the team
The Part One Psychology Service (POPS) team supports the work of psychologists in CMHTs by providing high quality group-based interventions such as DBT or CBT groups, as well as 1:1 psychological therapy. We are based in St Cadoc's but work across the whole of Gwent. Our Peer Mentors have been part of the team since we started in September 2021 and are fully embedded in our service structure. Our service relies on their lived expertise and experience to ensure that patients have the best possible interventions. We think we are the only Psychological Therapies team in the UK to have peers working in our team. Our peers support our groups by providing their lived experience expertise to help people understand and get the best out of their therapy. They also have a small individual caseload of people they are supporting at various points of their recovery journey.
Role and responsibilities
* Join our friendly team which includes dedicated administrative support, our peer mentors, two assistant psychologists, psychological therapists, CAAPs and practitioner psychologists.
* Provide support for group-based interventions (e.g., DBT, CBT) and 1:1 psychological therapy within the POPS service.
* Contribute to group sessions by sharing lived experience expertise to help people understand and get the best out of their therapy.
* Carry out administrative duties, including recording on electronic patient records.
* Work with groups, individuals and agencies external to the NHS as required.
Eligibility and qualifications
* Experience of formal psychological therapies such as CBT, DBT or EMDR is required.
* Welsh language ability is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Team and environment
We are based in St Cadoc's but work across the whole of Gwent. The role sits within a multidisciplinary team with dedicated administrative support, our peer mentors, two assistant psychologists, psychological therapists, CAAPs and practitioner psychologists.
Organisation and values
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board are committed to delivering quality services based on the needs of the people who use them. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. 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.
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