Clinical Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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 a fixed-term, part-time Clinical Psychologist role (Band 7) at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, working with children and teenagers with cancer and their families. The post involves providing specialist psychological assessment, consultation, and support within a multi-disciplinary oncology unit. It also includes supervising junior team members and contributing to research and service development. The role is based in Sutton and is for a duration of 12 months.
Essential criteria
- Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent)
- Valid HCPC registration, or eligible for HCPC registration following completion of an HCPC accredited course
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Training in one or more additional therapies with an evidence base for chronic pain
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as either as a trainee clinical psychologist or as a newly qualified clinician and within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of teaching and training other professionals
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of neuropsychology and experience in neuropsychological testing
- Experience of working in paediatric psychology
- Experience of working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams within a hospital setting
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of providing psychological pain management interventions
- Experience as the sole psychologist within an MDT
- Skills Abilities/knowledge
- Doctoral level knowledge and experience in research design and methodology
- An ability to initiate and implement research projects
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring use of sustained and intense concentration
- A high-level ability to communicate potentially complex and sensitive information effectively at both a written and oral level, both to patients and their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside of NHS
- The 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
- Skills in providing consultation and advice to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance and audit mechanisms to reflect, assess and maintain the effectiveness of clinical practice
- Enthusiasm for clinical psychology, health psychology and working with children, young people and families
- An interest in service development and delivery
- Ability to effectively manage competing demands
- Ability to provide and promote appropriate support to carers and staff
- Willingness to keep abreast of literature and of new developments in the field
- Computer literate, and ability to use multi-media materials for presentations
- Ability to articulate and interpret the role of clinical psychology, within both local and national contexts
- An ability to work as the sole psychologist within an MDT, with support from the wider Paediatric and Teenage Psychological Support Service
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapy for use in physical health settings
- Knowledge of legislation and implications for clinical practice
- A commitment to evaluation of services, including audit
- A wish to continue to develop expertise in area of paediatrics
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural framework
- Education/Qualifications
- Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent)
- Valid HCPC registration, or eligible for HCPC registration following completion of an HCPC accredited course
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Training in one or more additional therapies with an evidence base for chronic pain
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient setti
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 7 (0.8 WTE), for a fixed term (1 Year) post working with children and teenagers who have cancer and with their families.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced multi-disciplinary medical and nursing oncology unit, where leadership, innovation, research, teaching and training are strongly encouraged. The psychology service provides a comprehensive assessment, consultation and support service both internally and externally to the Unit. The role encompasses both clinical and neuro psychological work. This is a very well-established psychology team, with excellent professional and compassionate staff, very well supported by our efficient and caring administration team within a cancer Centre of Excellence.
Main duties of the job
- To contribute to the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to paediatric oncology patients and to their families, within the working context of the paediatric psychosocial team and within the wider context of the multidisciplinary team.
- To supervise junior members of the psychology team and other members of the multidisciplinary team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- To work autonomously within profes
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