Practitioner Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 22-Feb-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 22-Feb-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Guy's Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Great Maze Pond
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Key working days are Wednesdays and Thursdays)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum incl. HCA (pro rata)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Psychology
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you a psychologist who loves diversity in your work in clinical health? Are you keen to use your leadership and management skills to co-lead and develop psychology provision within a close-knit MDT?
This is a rewarding role working with patients who have Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), type 2 (NF2), or Schwannomatosis. These are genetic conditions that cause benign tumours to grow along nerves; no experience of them is needed, we will teach you all you need to know.
We work with issues like concerns about appearance, pain, and cognitive difficulties, and support patients who are deciding on treatment options or having surgery. You will work closely with our nurses, social worker and physio. We use CBT, ACT and systemic approaches, face-to-face or virtual, with scope to be creative and flexible with short ad hoc and group work as well as longer interventions.
You will co- lead the service with another Band 8a psychologist; you will be responsible for the overall management of the psychology service, its clinical governance and development. You will also be instrumental in the development and delivery of a new paediatric psychology pathway. You will work with both adults and children. There are lot of opportunities for audit, research, teaching, staff support and chances to learn from others in the team and across the Trust. Psychology input is really valued by the patients and everyone in the team, which makes it a fulfilling and enjoyable job.
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You will offer evidence-based interventions to patients with NF1, NF2 or Schwannomatosis, whose condition is impacting on their mental health and quality of life. You’ll be embedded in the NF team, so the role can include consultation, teaching and joint work.
You will be responsible for the development and delivery of a new paediatric pathway and will co-lead the overall running of the psychology service, including working with the admin team to manage patient pathways, leading on audit, research and service development, and representing the service both within and outside the Trust.
Some of our patients have mild cognitive, sensory or mobility impairments, and you will work flexibly to meet their needs.
We are looking for someone with:
- Good clinical skills in CBT, at least one other model of working
- An interest in brain and behaviour relationships
- Experience in working with and consulting to other professionals in the MDT
- Skills to lead and manage this small service, including working with managers to keep it running efficiently, and make the case for further development
- Experience of leading on research and audit within a clinical setting
- Confidence to represent the NF Psychology service nationally, internationally and to commissioners
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The NF service is one of two UK national centres for NF1, and four for NF2, with patients coming from a wide geographical area. We are a close team, with most of the professions sharing office and clinical space, and we are very lucky in having excellent admin support. The service is led by neurologists and takes a holistic approach to care, with patients able to see doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers in one setting. The psychologists play a role in supporting the neurology clinics, being available for short ad hoc chats with patients and families as well as consulting other team members, and we run our own clinics and groups as well.
In the past we have offered placements to MSc students and there is scope to develop this further, with strong links with MSc courses in London, and the King’s College London/IoPPN DClinPsy training course.
We really value our individual team members and we’ll ensure you have the chance to meet your own development needs and progress your career as part of your work with us. We also contribute to national and international NF networks so there are many opportunities to collaborate with colleagues from other centres and to attend meetings worldwide. The wider Trust has a large and well-connected psychology workforce and CPD is encouraged so you will also be able to enhance your own practice via professional development and contact with other psychologists across the Trust.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
This is an exciting new role to co-lead the psychology service for patients with Neurofibromatosis (NF). The post-holder will have experience of working in medical settings across the lifespan with people with chronic conditions. They will be instrumental in the development and delivery of a new paediatric psychology pathway. They will work with both adults and children.
The post-holder will provide psychological input to NF Services through clinics, support groups and indirect work. The post-holder will draw from and integrate a range of psychology models to inform good practice supporting the needs of patients and carers with NF. Specifically, treatment is formulation based and the post-holder will design time-limited, evidence-based psychosocial interventions to improve functioning, develop coping skills and adjustment, improve psychological wellbeing and quality of life. They will represent psychology input into the NF service when required at directorate or national meetings relevant to the service.
The post holder will also contribute to service development and implementation in a highly specialist medical area and in doing so offer expertise to the MDT staff in the inter-play between physical health and psychological presentations.
The post-holder will also design and conduct teaching and training programmes for other staff within the directorate with a view to raising awareness of psychological factors and improving care for this patient group.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of assessment using a range of psychometric scales and clinical interview to arrive at a psychological formulation.
- Experience of delivering of treatment based on formulation and diagnosis, integrating a range of evidence-based models
- Experience of designing theory-based interventions to improve self-management of long-term physical health conditions.
- Experience of at least one additional model of treatment, aside from CBT.
- Experience of working with adults, children and families/carers
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of offering different formats of psychological treatments, including groups.
- Experience working with people with visible difference and/or Learning Disability and/or sensory impairments.
- Experience of leading a psychology service
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Doctorate in clinical psychology or equivalent training, matching in experience.
- Eligible for graduate registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and registration with the Health and Care Profession Council (HCPC).
Meini prawf dymunol
- BABCP accreditation in CBT or an additional evidence-based psychological treatment model (e.g. CAT, systemic therapy)
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Up to date knowledge of relevant psychological theories, approaches
- Up to date knowledge of evidence base for application of clinical or health psychology in physical health and health improvement.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, trauma and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Competence in leading audit and research (qualitative and quantitative approaches).
Meini prawf dymunol
- Competence in teaching and training and inter- and multi-disciplinary supervision.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Dr Natalie Smith
- Teitl y swydd
- Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Lesley Gyampo, Matron
Becky Meehan, Service Manager
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