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The closing date is 17 December 2025

This post is a new and exciting opportunity to be part of a developing and expanding Children and Young Person's Community Mental Health Service in CTM UHB. It has been created to develop an original and innovative service to improve access to psychological intervention and to develop and deliver early, brief psychological interventions for children, young people, their families and the professionals around them - an approach aligned to the ten year Welsh Government Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. The post holder will work into existing regional specialist CAMHS teams and develop new relationships with multi agency partners and the third sector to explore and develop psychological practice. Although early and brief, we anticipate that the work will be complex in nature and we want to ensure support is person centred, needs led, timely and available at the point where help is sought to prevent or reduce the likelihood of longer-term harm. If you share these values and have energy and motivation to drive meaningful change for children, young people and families within the context of their support networks and local communities we would welcome your application.

This region wider offer will be community based, working with both established CAMHS services and reaching into new areas including community partnership collaborations and multi-agency spaces. There will be three key streams of work: the development and delivery of a model of consultation to facilitate psychological formulation of the needs of the young person and their family within the context of their local community and support, delivering highly specialist early, brief psychological assessment and intervention and to develop new models of brief work within CAMHS such as a one at a time model of practice, and to incorporate a multi-agency approach and work into partnership spaces to offer expertise and create new psychologically informed approaches and services around children and young people, such as place based community psychology partnerships.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board, part of NHS Wales, serves a large population across a diverse and beautiful region, steeped in history and heritage. With nearly 13,500 staff, our health board is one of Wales's largest employers.

Together, we are Team CTM; a workforce dedicated to offering excellent patient care and support to the 450,000 people across our three regions, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We operate three District General hospitals, several community hospitals, primary and community care facilities.

CTM's location offers the best of South Wales, just 20 minutes from Cardiff's vibrant city life, the natural beauty of the Brecon Beacons, and the serene coastline at Ogmore. Whether you enjoy lively urban amenities, peaceful countryside, or seaside escapes, our location makes an ideal setting for both work and personal life.

Our CTM 2030 Strategy--Our Health, Our Future--focuses on uniting our region around shared health and wellbeing goals. Our values guide us daily:

• We listen, learn, and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We work together as one team

CTM employees enjoy benefits including; a leading pension, generous leave, flexible work, career growth, and access to ongoing learning and development.

At CTM, you'll find a welcoming, team-oriented workplace that values diversity and compassion, where you can take pride in your work and the difference it makes.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt 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 isnt 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.

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

• Honours Degree in Psychology. Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical or other relevant Applied Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Relevant additional specialist training or supervised practice in a therapeutic approach, to an accredited or equivalent level. Relevant additional specialist experience of delivering a consultation service. Relevant additional specialist training or knowledge and experience in brief interventions. Health Care Professionals Council registration as a practitioner psychologist.
• Clinical supervisor training for doctoral clinical psychology trainees. Additional training in attachment related interventions with children and/or young people. Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

• Knowledge and experience of utilising legislation relevant to psychological services for children, young people and families. Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist in an area relevant to this post. Evidence of excellent and autonomous clinical practice, effective multi-disciplinary working, and involvement in safeguarding and multi-agency risk management approaches. Experience of innovating and leading service development projects. Experience in working with children and young people with attachment difficulties and trauma Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of working within CAMH service for clients with complex needs. Experience of offering a specialist CYP MH consultation service. Experience of developing appropriate governance arrangements to support safe and effective practice. Experience of CYP MH work contributing to multiagency approaches and/or risk management. Experience of CYP MH work contributing to multi-systemic/multi-modal interventions. Experience of risk assessment and use of structured professional judgement tools.

• Passionate about improving the lives of children and families. Open and enthusiastic approach to work and professional development. Reliable and diligent approach to professional and clinical work. Capable of both team and independent working. Ability to work with highly distressing clinical material. Ability to work with complex clinical material. Capable of recognising when limits of competence are being reached and able to request and make use of supervision. Positive attitude to working with colleagues from different organisational contexts. Skills in delivering training and consultation. Well-developed skills in all forms of communication - oral and written, sensitive information, and with various audiences. Flexible approach to needs of the service and personable approach to working in a MDT. Ability to work in clinical and service contexts of high complexity and ongoing change. Standard keyboard skills with familiarity of Microsoft Office and NHS computer systems. Actively promote the relevant agendas including that of Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure with specific sensitivity to the challenges confronting the client group.
• Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above

• Promote and uphold the values and behaviours of CTMUHB.

• Ability to work independently and use distance supervision and support arrangements as necessary. Work with sensitivity and respect to matters of diversity and difference, being inclusive and enabling of service users, families and professional colleagues. Able to work flexibly according to demands of the team and role. Ability to travel in a timely manner to work in different bases across the CTM region. Enhanced DBS Check.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

£65,424 to £76,021 a yearper annum pro rata