Job summary
- Main area
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9466
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc H.C.A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Highly Specialist Paediatric Psychologist
8a
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.
Job overview
We are delighted to be recruiting to a permanent 1.0 wte Band 8a post to join a well-established Paediatric Psychology Team based at Royal Brompton Hospital.
The post holder will be based in the welcoming Paediatric Psychology Service at Royal Brompton Hospital (Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust). Working across paediatric respiratory and cardiology services at both Royal Brompton, Harefield and St Thomas’ Hospital sites. Clinical work will encompass a combination of outpatient and inpatient (including intensive care) work with children, young people and their families. As well as collaborative working with professional colleagues to provide high quality holistic care. We would be delighted to share more about the posts and encourage applicants to contact Dr Jo Blundell ([email protected]) or Michèle Puckey ([email protected] ).
Main duties of the job
The post holders will have an interest, and be experienced in, applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. The role is a varied one, with opportunity for both inpatient and outpatient working, as well as having an important component of MDT working, liaison and consultation. The role includes opportunities for teaching and training, research, and evaluation and working with shared care and network clinics across London and surrounding counties. We meet regularly as a psychology team, including with our paediatric psychology colleagues based at St Thomas’ Hospital Site and MDT colleagues, to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learning across the services. Supervision will be provided by an experienced RBH based practitioner psychologist. Additional opportunities include, but do not stop with, monthly team reflective practice and peer supervision as well as participation in SIG networks locally and nationally. Service related CPD is actively encouraged.
Working for our organisation
The post holder(s) will be joining a team of paediatric psychologists providing psychological care for children, young people and families at Royal Brompton Hospital, under the Cardio-Respiratory and Intensive Care (CRIC) Directorate at GSTT. We have established links with the large team of paediatric psychologists at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and particularly with our colleagues within CRIC Paediatric Psychology who work at St Thomas' Hospital site, and we are working together towards integrating the two services .
As a flexible, working friendly organization, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our patients, our staff and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible
pattern. If it works for the service, we’ll make it work for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist expertise in the psychological care of children, young people and their families within the paediatric psychology service, on an outpatient and inpatient basis.
- To provide specialist psychological assessment of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of service users presenting with a variety of complex problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing evidence-based interventions across a range of settings.
Please see attached JD and Person Specification for full information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psycology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of supervising pre-qualified psychologists including post-graduate students and other disciplines.
- Experience of teaching, training health professionals in psychological concepts
Desirable criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients within a physical health context, and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Experience working within a critical care setting (e.g. NICU, PICU or HDU)
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to cope with challenging caseloads and ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Ability to assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision
- Ability to or working towards a supervision qualification with a view of supervising band 7 psychologist and pre-qualified psychologists with a clear understand of theory and practice of psychology.
- Knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others
- Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jo Blundell
- Job title
- Lead Paediatric Practitioner Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03301288251
- Additional information
Michele Puckey [email protected] 03301288251
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