Specialist​/Principal Practitioner Psychologist

Position: Highly Specialist/Principal Practitioner Psychologist

Highly Specialist/Principal Practitioner Psychologist

The closing date is 22 January 2026

We have an exciting development in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) for a Band 8b psychology post. This is a new, part‑time, permanently funded post, to join a MDT in our Neonatal Follow up service.

Applications for this position are invited from psychologists with experience who meet the full criteria for the Band 8b role, or from psychologists who meet the Band 8a criteria and will be supported as a development opportunity. The successful candidate will be appointed on the understanding of progression to a higher banded post when further experience has been gained and essential competences have been met and will remain on the Band 8a until these are achieved.

The appointed psychologist will join an established MDT to deliver a neonatal follow up Service for CTMUHB. The post will be embedded within services and located professionally and managerially within the recently established and rapidly growing, supportive CTMUHB Health Psychology Service, covering many different specialties. If you are excited about developing and implementing new services, then this is the opportunity for you.

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duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a highly‑skilled and passionate team of medical, nursing and allied health professionals to deliver the highest standards of care to patients and their relatives in a rapidly changing environment.

We are a dynamic and friendly team led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist offering care pathways for patients and families from across the paediatric psychology spectrum. You will have every opportunity to participate and develop as a practitioner psychologist, making links to enable collaborative working and improve patient care.

We have dedicated office space and administrative support and offer flexible working options. There are also good links with the South Wales Clinical Doctorate programme in Cardiff University and other university courses in South Wales.

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.

About us

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

pWe are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities Clinical:

• 1. Working within a highly specialised clinical area, to provide highly specialist psychological assessments of patients/clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with patients and others involved in the patients/clients care.
• 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients/clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy. Adjusting plans to meet assessed needs of patient/client.
• 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining…