Practitioner Psychologist Homelessness Service in Newport

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. 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, flexible working, and opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including management development programmes. We promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support and have 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.

Responsibilities

• Organise and facilitate drop-ins for staff and service users who are experiencing homelessness in community environments where they reside or attend.
• Engagement is a key element of this role, and being alongside people when they are ready to engage.
• Assess needs, including cognitive assessments, and provide appropriate sign-posting and advocacy to meet identified needs.
• Deliver individual and group interventions within hostels and drop-ins.
• Support the ongoing implementation of psychologically informed environments in hostels, offering team formulation, reflective practice and critical incident debriefing.
• Involve in the delivery of G-REP, an EMDR-based approach to resilience building, to all staff working in the homeless sector.
• Interface with NHS services and other agencies, ensuring reasonable adjustments are made and advocating for individuals.
• Apply a trauma and attachment-informed approach to all aspects of the role.
• Access and provide supervision and training.
• Contribute to ongoing evaluation of the service for commissioners and other interested parties.
• Involvement in the activities of the broader ABUHB Adult Psychology Service.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to flexible working and to enabling a supportive, inclusive environment. The post is fixed term/secondment for 9 months until 31 March 2027 due to funding. If applying for a secondment, you must obtain permission from your current line manager before applying. The role is for a Practitioner Psychologist joining an established psychology team in Adult Mental Health, with the aim of increasing access to psychological support for homeless people and the staff who work with them.

Requirements

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Experience (Essential):

• Experience in Adult Mental Health;
• Experience of training;
• Experience of research.

Essential criteria:

• Doctorate in Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychology;
• Formal training in psychological approach.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience of working with homeless people or other hard-to-reach groups.

Other information

Health Board grounds are smoke-free by law. Smoking is not permitted anywhere on ABUHB sites. This applies to all staff, contractors, patients and visitors. Details are available in our Smoke-Free Environment Policy. For help to quit smoking please contact our Help Me Quit Team. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Successful applicants will be contacted via the email account registered on the application form. The Agenda for Change Pay Award for 2026/27 is effective from 1 April 2026; salary details are as per the pay award. This post may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via internal redeployment.