In this role, you will deliver compassionate, evidence-based assessments and interventions—whether through individual therapy, family sessions, or group work. You’ll have the chance to connect with families, offering support that respects their unique dynamics and challenges.
We value clinical autonomy and creativity, encouraging you to draw on a range of therapeutic models tailored to the specific needs of each young person and family system you work with. Your insights and skills will be vital in shaping care plans that embrace the complexities of family relationships and social networks.
If you’re driven by a systemic approach and committed to collaborative, inclusive care that supports emotional growth and resilience, this role offers a meaningful platform to lead, innovate, and inspire within child and adolescent mental health.
Come and be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team where your expertise can empower young lives and their families to thrive.
Deliver specialist systemic therapy and care packages tailored to complex family systems.
Work autonomously using a variety of therapeutic models based on clinical needs.
Provide advice, consultation, and supervision to CAMHS team members and other professionals.
Contribute to training, education, research, audits, and service development.
Lead by example within the community mental health service, promoting best practices and emerging evidence.
Offer expert evaluations, second opinions, and input on complex cases.
Represent the service in community and professional meetings.
Support and supervise trainees in family therapy placements.
Build strong professional networks across multidisciplinary teams, local authorities, and third sector partners.
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.
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Clinical
- To provide an effective and efficient systemic therapy service for children and young people with mental health needs,
- To independently plan, organise, lead and evaluate individual and group treatment sessions providing guidance to
- To explore best practice and to innovate in the areas of assessment and intervention within CAMHS.
- To provide evidence-based interventions and demonstrate high level clinical reasoning skills in implementing best
- To analyse complex facts and situations and compare a range of options in order to develop highly specialised
- To establish and maintain excellent communication with other members of the MDT, individuals, family, carers and
- To provide consultation to professionals in creating management plans for children and young people.
- To liaise with and where appropriate participate in joint work with other clinicians.
- To communicate highly complex condition or intervention related information to children, young people and their
- To participate in and contribute to case conferences and review meetings for children, young people and their
- To undertake 'one-off' assessment and intervention with less experienced therapists for identified cases
- To provide professional advice to patient/carer groups.
- To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
- To provide a second opinion where there are practice dilemmas.
- To maintain clinical records and produce reports on service users in accordance with service guidelines and
- To work within the Association of Family Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and within Health Board
- To be responsible for development and implementation of appropriate policies/ protocols within area of
Leadership
- To prioritise, manage and monitor own caseload and to support colleagues with the day-to-day organisation of work
- To work closely with Service Leads in implementing the clinical governance agenda, in respect of standards and
service capacity, staffing and waiting times management.
- To attend locality operational meetings as appropriate and agreed with manager and the CAMHs senior
- To work with manager and CAMHS senior management team to develop and audit clinical standards across
- To evaluate the clinical performance of staff within the team (where they are in post); supporting the
- To prioritise own work within the resources available to the service and to highlight deficiencies to the Operational
delivery.
- To take part in the recruitment, selection and appointment of staff and to organise induction programmes
- Where appropriate, to act as supervisor for junior staff providing regular supervision sessions in line with ABUHB
- Where appropriate, carry out annual appraisals according to ABUHB policy.
- To observe departmental and ABUHB systems and policies to meet quality standards and to provide accurate
- To interpret and implement national and local guidelines within the service.
- To contribute to the development of departmental policies regarding service provision.
- To work with clinicians in the S-CAMHS service and colleagues in the MDT promoting changes in practice in line with
process.
- To develop and build-positive and productive relationships and professional networks within across the
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