# Principal Clinical Psychologist - Early Help > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist-early-help/7dd45d5d-b0d8-4ff9-9747-234d22a12bbc - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist-early-help/7dd45d5d-b0d8-4ff9-9747-234d22a12bbc.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - **Town:** Bangor - **Region:** North Wales - **Country:** Wales - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £67,583 - £78,530 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.12 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T09:42:26.171Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/Caernarfon/Betsi_Cadwaladr_University_Health_Board/Clinical_Psychology/Clinical_Psychology-v7965352 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7965352?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://bcuhb.nhs.wales ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking to employ a compassionate leader and manager to collaborate  in the development of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS)  Early Help services in Gwynedd and Mon alongside  established managerial and operational structure.   This is an exciting opportunity for a senior clinician to build on established preventative and early intervention approaches, with the aim of  improving emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes for babies, infants, children, young people and families and carers. Working strategically across health, education, social care and third sector you will collaborate in leading service transformation aligned with BCUHB and Welsh Government priorities ensuring that the 0-18 year population receive timely, accessible and compassionate support. The Early Help services are influenced by NEST framework (mental health and wellbeing): introduction | GOV.WALES Framework on embedding a whole-school approach to emotional and mental wellbeing | GOV.WALES and Health and Care Quality Standards 2023 (WHC/2023/013) | GOV.WALES ### Main duties of the job This is a new key service development and leadership role and will be pivotal in supervising, training, and coaching the CAMH Early Help Practitioners to promote practice-based research and enquiry to develop the service and practitioner’s knowledge and skills. Working alongside West Strategic and Operational Lead for CAMHS Early Help, this role will support CAMH Early Help including supporting schools and communities by utilising highly specialised research skills for audit, policy and service development. They will contribute to the development of local policies and procedures and their implementation, to support ongoing improvements in service quality. The post holder will also have highly specialised clinical skills which they will draw upon to supervise their Early Help colleagues.   The role will also include involvement in regional and national service developments linked to West CAMHS Early Help.  This post will extend its reach to work alongside internal and external stakeholders to provide consultation to further promote mental health within schools and communities. This post will entail traveling throughout the region. The ability to speak Welsh is essential for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will be able to find a full Job description and full Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to speak Welsh fluently. **Desirable** - Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills. - Advanced IT skills. ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified and senior clinical psychologist, normally including significant post-qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located, or relevant transferable skills - Assessed experience of working effectively as a qualified and senior level clinical psychologist in the designated speciality, or relevant transferable skills - Demonstration of further specialist training/experience through having received extensive and demonstrable clinical supervision of working as a specialist Clinical Psychologist or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology **Desirable** - Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. - Experience of professional management of qualified clinical psychologists and other staff. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society - Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist - Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees. ## Documents - [jdps english (docx, 38.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10349412) - [sdmp cymraeg (doc, 169.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341923) - [oh form - ig ffurflen (doc, 668.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10262156) - [welsh language matrix (pdf, 134.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2220) - [values and behaviour framework (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2937) - [nhs north wales - the right choice (pdf, 3.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2075) - [nwssp recruitment services privacy notice (pdf, 808.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1632) ## 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.