Job Description

Role: Psychology & Learning Specialist

Company: Plumm

Location: South Africa (Cape Town)

Type: Full-time

Working hours: UK-aligned

About Plumm

Plumm is building a modern, global HR platform with mental wellbeing at its core. What began as a mental health offering has evolved into an all-in-one people platform, supporting wellbeing, learning, performance, and growth across the employee lifecycle.

Psychological quality, clinical integrity, and evidence-based practice are central to everything we deliver.

The Role

We’re looking for a Psychology & Learning Specialist to take ownership of the clinical governance, psychological quality, and applied learning that underpin Plumm’s wellbeing, learning, and people offering.

You will act as Plumm’s subject matter expert in psychology and learning, with accountability for ensuring that all psychology-led content, interventions, and products are ethical, evidence-based, and grounded in strong clinical, organisational, and behavioural science principles.

The role works across product, content, and client-facing work and is highly visible, influential, and impact-driven.

What You’ll Do

Clinical Quality & Governance

Own and maintain clinical and ethical standards across Plumm’s wellbeing, therapy, and learning offering
Ensure psychological content and interventions are safe, evidence-based, and high quality
Provide clinical oversight and guidance across Plumm’s therapist and wellbeing ecosystem
Act as the internal authority on psychological risk, quality, and governance

Learning, Content & Product

Design and deliver psychology-led courses and learning journeys for Plumm’s LMS
Create scalable learning content across wellbeing, resilience, performance, leadership, and change
Embed organisational psychology and behavioural science into Plumm’s HR and people platform
Partner with product teams to translate psychological insight into practical, scalable features
Use AI tools to support efficient, high-quality content creation

Client & Commercial Engagement

Support client, partner, and sales conversations with credible psychology and learning expertise
Confidently articulate the psychological and organisational value of Plumm’s offering
Translate wellbeing and learning outcomes into clear business and people impact

Internal Organisational Psychology

Apply organisational psychology principles to support Plumm’s culture, engagement, and ways of working
Partner with internal HR/People teams on employee experience and development initiatives

Who We’re Looking For

Background in Organisational Psychology (MSc preferred)
Strong exposure to clinical or counselling psychology, with applied experience in quality or governance
Experience across workplace wellbeing, learning & development, or people development
Comfortable operating autonomously with ownership and accountability
Confident acting as a trusted subject matter expert
Curious and pragmatic, with comfort using AI tools
Commercially aware, able to connect psychology to business and people outcomes

DE&I

We are committed to diversity and equality at every level and are proud to have brought together an incredibly talented international team from various countries, speaking more than 10 languages so far! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we ensure that at all stages of our hiring process, your education level, background, race, religion, colour, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability (seen or unseen) will not affect your chances for selection.

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