# Consultant Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Swansea Bay University Health Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychologist/52a5bdf7-65c4-4ce8-bca0-c2d78c9ec178 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychologist/52a5bdf7-65c4-4ce8-bca0-c2d78c9ec178.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Swansea Bay University Health Board - **Town:** Swansea - **Region:** Swansea - **Country:** Wales - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £80,698 - £92,984 per annum - **Contract type:** Secondment: 24 months - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-23T10:10:32.826Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Swansea/Bridgend/Swansea_Bay_University_Health_Board/Practitioner_Psychologist/Practitioner_Psychologist-v7992768 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7992768?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://sbuhb.nhs.wales ## Job Content ### Job overview ### THIS POST IS FIXED TERM/SECONDMENT FOR 2 YEARS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE. ### IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR THE SECONDMENT POSITION, YOU MUST OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM YOUR CURRENT LINE MANAGER PRIOR TO APPLYING FOR THIS POST. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic practitioner  psychologist to lead and further develop a high quality, responsive and accessible Offender Personality Disorder Pathway  / OPDP service within Wales, as hosted by Swansea Bay University Healthboard and in partnership with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPSS). The post holder will be welcomed into the broader Swansea Bay Mental Health and Learning Disability (MHLD)  psychology department. The postholder will join a Consultant Lead Psychology team within our Secure Services and Recovery (SSR) Division, with access to  regular peer supervision  CPD, reflective practice and service development work as well as having an ongoing programme of clinical and professional development. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will professionally lead a team of psychologists,  ensuring that  appropriate management structures  and good clinical governance for the team is in place. They will support the Professional Lead for MHLD Psychology with recruitment to any additional, funded posts within the service area. Additionally, they will undertake direct and indirect clinical work, offering a range of psychological interventions to  patients, their families and networks. They will work with the multidisciplinary ensuring that service plans, developments and pathways are psychologically informed. The lead psychologist will ensure systems are in place for reviewing and evaluating the service, and for ensuring good clinical governance across psychology. They will help to ensure other psychologists and psychological therapists have appropriate support and supervision in place and are enabled to develop their professional competencies and careers. The service and staff have excellent links with SBU psychology department. There are also good links to Swansea and Cardiff and Cardiff Metropolitan universities with opportunities for hosting MSc students and trainees. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply. 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Ability to manage Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and provide leadership within the defined Psychology Service - Sufficient experience to demonstrate a level of competence to satisfy the assessment requirements of two BPS/DoH National Assessors in Psychology for entrance into Consultant Grade **Desirable** - Formal leadership development training Experience of Committee work /special interest ### Aptitude and abilities **Essential** - Ability to use highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, requiring empathy and reassurance, to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively in a highly emotive atmosphere, and ability to overcome psychological resistance to potentially threatening information, whilst maintaining high degree of professionalism at all times. - Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary settings ### Qualifications & Knowledge **Essential** - Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist - Attendance at several taught post-graduate course and pursuit of supervised self- directed study in specialist field of the defined area. Substantial experience of application of this knowledge **Desirable** - Record of publications in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 704.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2372) - [applicant guide (pdf, 624.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1728) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 278.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2849) - [occupational health functional requirements form (pdf, 855.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10286200) - [job description and personal specification - bilingual (pdf, 260.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10276860) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.