Work with Us
The Wave continues to grow and develop new innovative programs for young people and their families. We’re always interested to hear from talented professionals and aspiring superstars who share our vision and passion for excellence in child and adolescent mental health.
Team Wave
The Wave is one of the few International Programs dedicated to exceptional mental health care for children, teenagers, young adults and their families. Our success is attributable to our amazing Wave Family, a team of professionals who are undoubtedly the brightest stars in their specialist areas.
Our international team is not only dedicated and experienced, they are thoroughly nice people who have created a superb collaboration where anything is possible.
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The Wave continues to grow and develop new innovative programs for young people and their families. We are always interested to hear from talented professionals and aspiring superstars, who share our vision and passion for excellence in child and adolescent mental health.
We love to hear from professionals around the world. If you are visiting Malaysia or Asia and would like to visit us, we would love to see you. A warm welcome awaits, together with an opportunity to experience life at The Wave.
Opportunities at The Wave
Clinical
The clinical team at The Wave are a lively bunch, speaking seven languages between them and having specialist interests in a wide variety of subjects and therapeutic modalities. The team includes Trauma-Focused Mental Health Practitioners, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Counsellors, Social Workers, Recovery Specialists, Lived-experience Experts, Relationship Therapists, LGBTQIA specialists and Family Therapists.
We welcome applications from experienced mental health professionals who hold international accreditation or licence in their home country and who have a minimum of five years’ clinical experience.
We are currently accepting applications for Primary and Secondary Care positions and therapists in International Private Practice for remote working and telehealth consultations.
Therapists in training and newly qualified therapists are encouraged to apply to us once they have completed a minimum of 450 clinical hours in training, have a record of ongoing clinical supervision and a record of personal therapy throughout their training.
Applicants who have lived or worked in the UK should hold an ICPC (International Child Protection Certificate). You may apply for this at www.acro.police.uk Applicants from other countries should be able to provide an equivalent police check, enhanced disclosure or document of good standing.
All applicants applying for clinical positions should currently hold or be studying towards a Child Protection and Safeguarding Award of Level 3 (or above).
Medical
We welcome applications from doctors and registered nurses (General Medicine and Psychiatry).
We would also love to hear from dieticians and nutritionists specialising in eating disorders (EDRD). We welcome applications for our residential programs and for remote positions worldwide.
Applicants should hold full registration in their home country and able to meet the criteria to obtain registration In Malaysia.
We are also able to provide placements for doctors and nurses in eating disorder specialities and CAMHS placements.
Internships
The Wave is a place where learning and enquiry is actively encouraged. We are really delighted to hear from young people during their journey into early career mental health.
Due to the levels of security, confidentiality and safeguarding that we provide our young people and their families, we are not able to offer internships or short-term placements at undergraduate level.
We are able to provide international internships and placements for psychotherapy students in training, subject to a supervisors and tutors report, referencing and safeguarding.
Our placements should meet the requirements of most UK Psychotherapy Training placements.
House Parents and Guest Services
The Wave is a home from home to young people from all over the world. We embrace and celebrate our diversity and the unique cultural blend that is ‘home’.
Our house parents and guest services teams, together with our housekeepers, laundry and Experiences team help to make our environment nurturing, supported and warm.
We welcome applications from suitably qualified applicants, pastoral care teachers, boarding house parents and house managers for our houses in Kuala Lumpur.
Guest services applicants should have a background in hospitality, events management or ‘front of house’.
Food and Beverage: Nurturing with Nutrition
As the only eating disorder treatment facility in Asia, and one of the few in the world that specialises in treating children and teenagers, our food and beverage team have a wonderful opportunity to develop skills and expertise in a this specialist area.
Working closely with our resident dietician and eating disorder team, our kitchen champions nurture with nutrition. We are always delighted to hear from chefs (of all levels), kitchen assistants, and food and beverage stars, who are passionate about delivering opportunities to young people to explore, create and enjoy their experience with food in our communities.
Training
We love sharing our experience and we love learning. We are always happy to talk with our colleagues in education, mental health and social work and share our knowledge.
We are also more than happy to be contacted with training opportunities for our team to take part in.
We are always open to listen, to learn, to share and to inspire.
Here’s What Our Team Has to Say …
The Wave is ….
Farah
Kaartik
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