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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of working as a qualified / trainee clinical / counselling psychologist / practitioner health psychologist and/or CBT therapist
- Experience
Experience of specialist biopsychosocial assessment and delivery of psychological and / or motivational interventions with patients in primary care, community, or acute hospital settings
- Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, presenting with a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient and/or community and/or primary care, and/or in-patient settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience
Experience of undertaking risk assessments
- Experience
Experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments
- Experience
Experience of running patient support groups
- Qualifications
Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology and / or level 2 post-graduate qualification in CBT
- Qualifications
Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (Practitioner Psychologist)
- Qualifications
BABCP accreditation (full or provisional)
- Skills & Aptitudes
Knowledge of and ability to implement behaviour change techniques and interventions as applied to healthy eating and physical exercise
- Skills & Aptitudes
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations
- Skills & Aptitudes
Ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to patients and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Skills & Aptitudes
Ability to act as a practitioner psychologist / CBT therapist and work autonomously in hospital settings
- Skills & Aptitudes
High level knowledge of psychology research design and methodology within physical health settings
- Skills & Aptitudes
Evidence of ongoing professional development in line with HCPC/BPS/BABCP requirements
- Royal Free shared commitments
Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Clinical experience in assessment and working psychologically with patients living with obesity in a community and/or acute hospital setting
- Experience
Experience of running patient therapy/education/information groups
Job overview
The postholder will join the Renal Health and Counselling Psychology team and the Liver Transplant Psychology team, both comprising psychologists and young adult support workers, and will work closely with specialist kidney and liver multidisciplinary colleagues from nursing, medical, surgical, dietetic, pharmacy, and physiotherapy.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to JD and PS
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Band 7 - Renal Practitioner Psychologist / Senior CBT Therapist with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Oct 2026.
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