Practitioner Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical, counselling or health psychologist to work in a leading adult oncology and haematology service. The role involves direct clinical work across the adult cancer pathway, providing psychological assessments and interventions. The post holder will also contribute to staff supervision and training programmes. The position is supported by an established psychological health service and offers excellent facilities.
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical, counselling or health psychology recognised for registration by the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist - Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist. Or about to qualify as Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist
- Current registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Current full UK driving licence
- Experience of clinical work with adults and older adults providing psychological assessments and interventions
- Experience of providing psychological consultation, supervision and training to multi-professional and multi-agency teams
- Experience of clinical work within a health care setting, with individuals who have an acute/long-term medical conditions
- Experience of undertaking consultation and service development work within a multi-disciplinary physical health setting
- Experience of working with adults who require mental health care under community mental health services
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of working with people in end of life care.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Formal teaching / presentation sessions to health and other professionals.
- Demonstrable knowledge of legislation and guidance pertaining to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, consent, confidentiality and standards of psychological care within relevant NICE and other guidance
- Able to work in a specialist team providing a service consistent with the Psychological Health Services
- Able to assess the psychological needs of adults and older adults, including the use of cognitive and psychometric tests
- Able to generate systemic and individual formulations and interventions based on applying psychological theory to the complex information generated by the person, family, health and social care systems relating to individuals engaging in care pathways
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the range of psychological implications of engagement with these care pathways for individuals and their families
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the roles of a practitioner psychologist in relation to a patient, their family, the staff teams and the wider organisational systems around them
- Able to demonstrate successful use of strategies to prioritise and manage time when there are conflicting demands
- Advanced communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from young people/adults in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations. This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.
- Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in medical and psychology notes, data bases and electronic records as required
- Able to demonstrate a realistic awareness of the potential for work related stress and distress in this type of clinical work plus strategies to manage this
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
- Able to travel to all Trust sites (Weston, Bristol, South Bristol, Southmead) regularly and across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire occasionally
- To be proficient in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
- Ability to drive is desirable
- Empathic
- Compassionate
- Excellent communicatoin skills at all levels
- Manage competing demands
- Education and Qualifications
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical, counselling or health psychology recognised for registration by the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist - Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist. Or about to qualify as Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist
- Current registration with HCPC
- Current full UK driving licence
- Experience of clinical work with adults and older adults providing psychological assessments and interventions
- Experience of providing psychological consultation, supervision and training to multi-professional and multi-agency teams
- Experience of clinical work within a health care setting, with individuals who have an acute/long-term medical conditions
- Experie
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
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Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Practitioner Psychologist
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical, counselling or health psychologist to work in a leading adult oncology and haematology service. The post holder will be closely supported by colleagues within an established and highly valued and supportive psychological health service.
You will have a wide range of direct clinical work covering all parts of the adult cancer pathway across different tumour sites and teams. You will be offered opportunities to contribute to the compassionate care of staff, through clinical supervision, as well as supporting our wide ranging training programme.
There are excellent facilities to support this role, with dedicated administrative support and clinical space within Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre and Weston General Hospital. We offer a very supportive Psychological Health Services group across the Trust, with strong links to regional and national networks.
Main duties of the job
The total hours currently available are 33.75 (0.9wte). If full time hours are desirable there may be opportunities to pick up additional hours on a fixed term basis.
This role covers the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Hospital (BHOC) and Weston General Hospital (WGH) and therefore requires the post holder to travel to both s
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