Paediatric Clinical Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Paediatric Clinical Psychologist to join the largest paediatric psychology service in the UK at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The role involves providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention to children and their families within the Specialist Health Conditions Stream and Pain Service. The successful candidate will work with multidisciplinary teams, supporting patients and families with various challenges including procedural fear, pain management, and co-morbid mental health difficulties. The post offers opportunities for professional development, supervision, teaching, and research within a supportive and large psychology service.
Essential criteria
- GOSH Values
- Education and qualifications
- 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
- Eligibility for Chartered Status and membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Skills and abilities
- 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 non-professional 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.
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Ability to administer, score and interpret a range of cognitive assessment tools
- Knowledge & Experience
- 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 and physical problems
- Knowledge and Understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Evidence of working psychologically with children and/or adults in a physical health setting
- Experience of teaching or training.
- GOSH Values
- GOSH Values
- Education and qualifications
- 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
- Eligibility for Chartered Status and membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology
- Post-doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Skills and abilities
- 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 non-professional 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.
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Ability to administer, score and interpret a range of cognitive assessment tools
- Knowledge & Experience
- 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 c
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.
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Job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the largest paediatric psychology service inthe UK. The postholder will join dynamic and supportive clinical psychology teams attached to theSpecialist Health Conditions Streamand the Pain Service. The postholder will work with themultidisciplinary teams in these areas and provide specialist psychological assessment andintervention to children and their families. The successful candidate will join a supportive team ofpsychologists working across these medical specialties whilst also being able to access the learningand 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 tooptimise care by working with patients, their families and the MDT who are struggling withprocedural fear, treatment adherence, decision-making, pain management and co-morbid mentalhealth difficulties (e.g. anxiety and depression), as well as supporting staff wellbeing in a busymedical environment. The postholder will also be a part of innovative individual, group and socialinterventions designed to support children and families managing illness-related stigma, supportingyoung people to function despite their symptoms, and develop independent identities thatincorporate their health condition.
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