Clinical/Health Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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/Health Psychologist to join the Clinical Health Psychology Department. The role involves providing specialist psychological therapy to service users with physical health conditions, working across various specialisms like stroke, diabetes, cancer, and pain. You will deliver intervention, consultation, supervision, and training, working closely with multidisciplinary teams in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The service is forward-thinking and seeks a dynamic psychologist to help grow and develop its profile.
Key responsibilities
- Provide individual and group psychological therapy to outpatients and inpatients with long term physical health conditions.
- Take responsibility for aspects of service development as a qualified clinician.
- Offer clinical supervision to Trainees and other MDT staff.
- Provide teaching, training, and consultation to healthcare professionals.
- Participate in audit, evaluation, and publishing activities to promote clinical health psychology.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral Degree or equivalent qualification in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology
- Full registration with the Health Professions Council
- Eligible for Chartered Status with the British Psychological Society or equivalent body
- Experience during or post qualification in a physical health environment
- Experience of research design, methodology, data analysis and interpretation
- Experience of working effectively in an MDT
- Management of patients expressing suicidal ideation or plans
- Demonstrable skills in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a variety of complex problems
- Demonstrable skills in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with multiple co-morbidities
- Demonstrable skills in the process of analysis, understanding and decision making, as applied to the psychological assessment, planning of intervention, and treatment of complex psychological problems
- Knowledge of psychological theory and therapy as applied to patients presenting with medical and psychological problems
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of national and local legislation, policies and guidelines (e.g. Data Protection Act, NSF guidelines, NICE guidelines etc.)
- Well-developed skills in effectively communicating complex and sensitive and contentious information, orally and in writing, to individual patients, groups of patients, carers and other professionals
- The ability to access and use relevant scientific databases and literature
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- We are Kind
- We are Open
- We are Inclusive
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in supervision
- Experience in psychological assessment and intervention within clinical health psychology
- Experience of teaching health professionals
- Experience of providing consultation to health professionals
- Experience of clinical supervision of assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, other healthcare professionals
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 17d ago · Closes in 24d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Clinical/Health Psychologist
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Clinical/Health Psychologist in our Clinical Health Psychology Department which provides specialist psychological therapy to service users experiencing distress as a consequence of their physical health conditions. Our service provides psychological intervention, consultation, supervision & training across a diverse range of physical health specialisms, working closely with our MDT colleagues.
There will also be opportunity to utilise complex clinical skills across the specialisms we serve, including stroke services, diabetes, cancer, pain, bariatrics, burns, plastics and other long term physical health conditions, both inpatients & outpatients. This is a great opportunity to exercise breadth in clinical work whilst developing your areas of interest further. We are a forward thinking service & want a dynamic psychologist to help grow, develop and drive the profile of Clinical Health Psychology. We are an outstanding and award winning Trust & our aim is for the Clinical Psychology Department to reflect this.
You will be part of a high performing Clinical Psychology Department with access to psychology colleagues to support, reflect with, maintain your CPD portfolio and receive high qual
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