Assistant Psychologist
Location
Pontypool, Wales, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/14/2025
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Description
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.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
The Older Adult Psychology Service provides therapeutic and psychological interventions for adults aged over 65 years across Gwent with their mental health needs , alongside our colleagues in CMHT and Memory Teams in the Wider Older Adult Directorate. We also provide services for adults who have concerns about progressive cognitive decline.
Our Assistant Psychologists are integral to our service and will have a key role in providing structured assessments and interventions to people on an individual or group basis, including neuropsychological assessment. They also support the wider work of the psychology team, including audit and service development
Much of our work is delivered face to face across Gwent, and the ability to travel to support people at different team bases or in their own homes is essential.
Our Psychology team includes dedicated administrative support, assistant psychologists, arts therapists, a CAAP and practitioner psychologists, and we liaise with a range of multidisciplinary professionals in our work.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 24 months from start date due to funding. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Main duties of the job
The Older Adult Psychology Service works across all five Older Adult CMHTs and Memory Assessment Services in Gwent, as well as within mental health inpatient and general hospital sites. We provide a range of interventions to people who use our services. Our aim is always to offer high quality, evidence based and formulation driven psychological interventions to enable people to live as well as possible.
The posts will involve delivering group based and individual psychological assessments and interventions, and assisting qualified Psychologists and Psychological and Arts Therapies in their roles. It will also involve the delivery of neuropsychological assessments with individuals.
Our Assistant Psychologists will also support data collection and reporting, and monitoring service delivery outcomes, and be involved in departmental service improvement projects. The successful applicants will benefit from high levels of support and high quality supervision throughout.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
The Older Adult Psychology Service provides therapeutic and psychological interventions for adults aged over 65 years across Gwent with their mental health needs , alongside our colleagues in CMHT and Memory Teams in the Wider Older Adult Directorate. We also provide services for adults who have concerns about progressive cognitive decline.
Our Assistant Psychologists are integral to our service and will have a key role in providing structured assessments and interventions to people on an individual or group basis, including neuropsychological assessment. They also support the wider work of the psychology team, including audit and service development
Much of our work is delivered face to face across Gwent, and the ability to travel to support people at different team bases or in their own homes is essential.
Our Psychology team includes dedicated administrative support, assistant psychologists, arts therapists, a CAAP and practitioner psychologists, and we liaise with a range of multidisciplinary professionals in our work.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 24 months from start date due to funding. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Main duties of the job
The Older Adult Psychology Service works across all five Older Adult CMHTs and Memory Assessment Services in Gwent, as well as within mental health inpatient and general hospital sites. We provide a range of interventions to people who use our services. Our aim is always to offer high quality, evidence based and formulation driven psychological interventions to enable people to live as well as possible.
The posts will involve delivering group based and individual psychological assessments and interventions, and assisting qualified Psychologists and Psychological and Arts Therapies in their roles. It will also involve the delivery of neuropsychological assessments with individuals.
Our Assistant Psychologists will also support data collection and reporting, and monitoring service delivery outcomes, and be involved in departmental service improvement projects. The successful applicants will benefit from high levels of support and high quality supervision throughout.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Psychology degree with GBR
- Post-graduate degree
- Formal training in a psychological intervention (e.g. CBT or DBT)
Essential criteria
- Previous experience as AP or Research Assistant
- Previous delivery group interventions
- Previous experience of delivering psychological intervention
- Ability to reflect on own lived experience
- Previous delivery of neuropsychological assessment
- Ability to reflect on and learn from previous work experiences
Essential criteria
- Basic competency in word processing and statistical analysis
- Experience using computers for databases or data analysis, including SPSS and Excel
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