Practitioner Psychologist/Child Psychotherapist NFS
Location
Church Village, Wales, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/18/2025
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Description
Fixed term up to 18 months due to current funding
Are you passionate about supporting the emotional wellbeing of parents and their infants during the crucial early years? We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to join our newly established Nurturing Families Service — a pioneering initiative dedicated to strengthening the earliest relationships that lay the foundation for lifelong mental health.
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Practitioner Psychologist or Child Psychotherapist to play a key role in shaping and delivering this service. This is a chance to work at the cutting edge of infant mental health, support families during a transformative stage of life.
We would also welcome applications from soon to be, or newly qualified clinical psychologists looking to progress to a senior clinical psychology role. The successful candidate would be appointed into a development post at Band 7 where a development plan will be agreed to identify and achieve specific competencies that will be required to progress to Band 8a.
You will be part of our growing team of psychological professionals working with babies, children and families in CTMUHB. We are a friendly and supportive team who support continued professional development and innovative practice.
To work alongside Clinical Lead of the Nurturing families service to provide a psychological/ psychotherapeutic offer for the CTM Nurturing Families Service within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).
Will work from UHB and local authority sites across the CTMUHB footprint.
To assist in ensuring the systematic provision of a comprehensive, specialist clinical psychology/child psychotherapy service across all sectors of care to babies and children and their families in CTMUHB.
To provide specialist, psychological/psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions for patients referred to CTM Nurturing Families Service, informed by modern evidence based psychological professional knowledge.
To provide teaching, training and consultation to support psychological/ psychotherapeutic assessment and interventions provided by other members of the CTM Nurturing Families Service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and support for the systematic governance of psychological/ psychotherapeutic practice within the CTM Nurturing Families Service.
To work alongside the team to conduct and supervise audit and research, and to develop and evaluate novel clinical and psychological programmes, as a major job responsibility.
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.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jael Hill Job title: Directorate Lead CCP Email address: [email protected]
Dr Andrea Davies Clinical Director of Psychological Services on [email protected]
Are you passionate about supporting the emotional wellbeing of parents and their infants during the crucial early years? We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to join our newly established Nurturing Families Service — a pioneering initiative dedicated to strengthening the earliest relationships that lay the foundation for lifelong mental health.
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Practitioner Psychologist or Child Psychotherapist to play a key role in shaping and delivering this service. This is a chance to work at the cutting edge of infant mental health, support families during a transformative stage of life.
We would also welcome applications from soon to be, or newly qualified clinical psychologists looking to progress to a senior clinical psychology role. The successful candidate would be appointed into a development post at Band 7 where a development plan will be agreed to identify and achieve specific competencies that will be required to progress to Band 8a.
You will be part of our growing team of psychological professionals working with babies, children and families in CTMUHB. We are a friendly and supportive team who support continued professional development and innovative practice.
To work alongside Clinical Lead of the Nurturing families service to provide a psychological/ psychotherapeutic offer for the CTM Nurturing Families Service within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).
Will work from UHB and local authority sites across the CTMUHB footprint.
To assist in ensuring the systematic provision of a comprehensive, specialist clinical psychology/child psychotherapy service across all sectors of care to babies and children and their families in CTMUHB.
To provide specialist, psychological/psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions for patients referred to CTM Nurturing Families Service, informed by modern evidence based psychological professional knowledge.
To provide teaching, training and consultation to support psychological/ psychotherapeutic assessment and interventions provided by other members of the CTM Nurturing Families Service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and support for the systematic governance of psychological/ psychotherapeutic practice within the CTM Nurturing Families Service.
To work alongside the team to conduct and supervise audit and research, and to develop and evaluate novel clinical and psychological programmes, as a major job responsibility.
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.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jael Hill Job title: Directorate Lead CCP Email address: [email protected]
Dr Andrea Davies Clinical Director of Psychological Services on [email protected]
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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