Clinical Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 04/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join the largest paediatric psychology service in the UK at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The role involves working with multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention to children and families with various health conditions, including urology, neurology, and pain. The postholder will support patients with procedural fear, treatment adherence, decision-making, and co-morbid mental health difficulties, while also contributing to staff wellbeing. This position offers opportunities for professional development, supervision, teaching, and research within a supportive and diverse environment.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention to children and their families within multidisciplinary teams.
- Work with patients, their families, and MDTs on issues such as procedural fear, treatment adherence, decision-making, and pain management.
- Support staff wellbeing in a busy medical environment.
- Develop and deliver individual, group, and social interventions for children managing illness-related stigma and developing independent identities.
- Develop supervision, teaching, and training skills for pre-qualification psychologists.
- Participate in ongoing quality improvement and research projects in conjunction with UCL Institute of Child Health.
Essential criteria
- GOSH Always Values
- Knowledge and Understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace .
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Good honours degree in Psychology.
- Post -graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS/HCPC, including clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and lifespan developmental psychology
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as Practitioner Psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi -disciplinary care
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts and of working in a multicultural framework
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and child protection.
- Experience in delivering evidence based interventions for a range of child and adolescent mental health problems
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their carers, and other professionals.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team Working.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, including verbal abuse.
Desirable criteria
- Post -doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Experience of teaching or training.
- Experience and expertise in working with children who have life limiting and life -threatening conditions, including experience of bereavement work
- Experience of presenting psychology to multidisciplinary audiences at conferences or other educational settings.
- Experience of providing psychological input in a medical Setting
- Ability to administer, score and interpret a range of cognitive assessment tools.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 13d ago · Closes in 6d
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Job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the largest paediatric psychology service in the UK. The postholder will join dynamic and supportive clinical psychology teams attached to the Specialist Health Conditions Stream (covering [contact details removed], Neurology, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology) and the Pain Service. The postholder will work with the multidisciplinary teams in these areas and provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention to children and their families. The successful candidate will join a supportive team of psychologists working across these medical specialties whilst also being able to access the learning and opportunities that come with being part of a large psychology service at a leading children'shospital.
Clinical Psychology is a highly valued profession within each multi-disciplinary team helping to optimise care by working with patients, their families and the MDT who are struggling with procedural fear, treatment adherence, decision-making, pain management and co-morbid mental health difficulties (e.g. anxiety and depression), as well as supporting staff wellbeing in a busy medical environment. The postholder will also be a part of innovative individual, group and social interventions designed to support children and families managing illness-related stigma, supporting young
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