Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST073-0925
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dewi Sant Health Park
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £65,424 - £76,021 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Psychologist
Band 8b
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Principal Psychologist to provide leadership and specialist psychological provision to the adult community mental health teams in the Rhondda/Cynon/Taf area. The successful candidate will join a diverse and passionate team of psychologists working across the community teams in CTM. The successful candidate will provide management, support and mentoring to junior colleagues within the team. They in turn will be provided support and mentoring through the psychology leadership team as well as the lead consultant psychologist for CMHT's. The CMHT psychologists are currently engaged in an exciting period of service development where there are many opportunities to pursue projects you have an interest in and help shape the future of CMHT psychological services.
The CMHT psychology service is made up of clinical and counselling psychologists, CAAP and assistant psychologists. We have close links with both the clinical and counselling doctorate in South Wales and consistently have trainees on placement with us.
The wider CTM psychology service is going through a period of development aimed to foster good links and communication across specialities and the successful candidate will be part of the leadership team developing this vision.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a senior clinical leader helping to provide timely, effective, modern, evidence based therapies delivered by a well trained and supervised multi-disciplinary workforce. They will themselves provide highly specialist psychological services within an assigned community mental health team (CMHT) and develop suitable models for increasing the capacity within CMHTs to offer systematic stepped care to people with complex needs who require psychological treatment as part of their recovery plan. They will supervise the work of less experienced psychologists or other professions. Thus their work will involve providing highly specialist interventions as well as developing fit for purpose psychological services within their assigned service areas. The postholder is expected to be research active and to contribute to our organisational status as a university health board.
The successful candidate will hold line management and clinical supervision responsibility for other psychologists within the team.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral, or equivalent, professional training in applied psychology.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of clinical supervision in order to support qualified and trainee staff with regard to psychological therapy.
- Post qualification relevant specialist training.
Desirable criteria
- Highly-developed knowledge of more than one psychological model.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified psychologist in roles involving complex clinical cases.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a co-ordinator of care and a therapist and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising psychologists and psychological therapists from other professions (e.g. nursing, occupational therapy).
- Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities and programmes.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of and a commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and influencing skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Caroline Durrant
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 351100
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