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Barts Health NHS Trust

About

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Contact

Address: 20 Churchill Place; Canary Wharf; London; E14 5HJ
Contact Number: 020 7377 7000

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Ref: 259-6828456RLH Vacancy ID: 6828456

Assistant Psychologist

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Location

Site: The Royal London Hospital
Town: London
Postcode: E1 1FR
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 8 months (End Date: 26/09/2025 - Although this position is an 8 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 8 months.)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inc
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 4)

Specialty

Main area: Psych Model of Care Pilot

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Eligibility for Graduate registration with BPS

Desirable criteria

Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of work with people presenting with physical and / or mental health challenges or other relevant problems (e.g., learning disabilities, organic impairment)

Desirable criteria

Paid work in a setting providing direct care.
Experience of working with people who may be deemed at risk with regards safeguarding.
Experience of administering complex psychometric tests and to use psychological equipment in accordance with standardised timing, stimulus presentation and response monitoring requirements
Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

High level of interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to work and effectively communicate complex or sensitive information in emotionally charged settings potentially involving conflict and significant personal distress.
An awareness and understanding of needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and disabilities and of contemporary issues in the field.
An awareness and understanding of working with a diverse population of service users and colleagues. Particularly, the differential needs of people from black and minority ethnic communities and from other groups with protected characteristics.
Awareness of boundary issues between professionals and between service users and psychologists.
An understanding of statistical analysis commensurate with an honours degree in psychology.
Experience using Microsoft and associated software for purposes of data analysis and reporting, including databases and statistical programmes such as SPSS

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of cognitive and behavioural principles and how to apply these in practice.
Ability to travel independently.

Personal

Essential criteria

An ability to tolerate an acute hospital setting, with routine exposure to people who are experiencing complex, recent physical injury and risk of death. These may relate to complex social factors and behaviours.
An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines
Under to the day-to-day direction of a qualified psychologist, an ability to work independently, reliably, consistently and with initiative (seeking guidance when necessary).
Adaptable and able to work flexibly when required (.e.g., in the light of changing service priorities).
Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure.
A commitment to the involvement of service users and carers on the development and delivery services.
Willingness to travel between sites within the Trust, as required.