# Band 7 - Renal Practitioner Psychologist / Senior CBT Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-renal-practitioner-psychologist-senior-cbt-therapist/dc5bf8d6-fa8b-49ae-a868-8f50f4560cb3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-renal-practitioner-psychologist-senior-cbt-therapist/dc5bf8d6-fa8b-49ae-a868-8f50f4560cb3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Free Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 31.8 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T11:01:12.042Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Renal/Renal-v8232553 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8232553?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working as a qualified / trainee clinical / counselling psychologist / practitioner health psychologist and/or CBT therapist - Experience of specialist biopsychosocial assessment and delivery of psychological and / or motivational interventions with patients in primary care, community, or acute hospital settings - 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 of undertaking risk assessments - Experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments - Experience of running patient support groups **Desirable** - Clinical experience in assessment and working psychologically with patients living with obesity in a community and/or acute hospital setting - Experience of running patient therapy/education/information groups ### Qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology and / or level 2 post-graduate qualification in CBT - Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (Practitioner Psychologist) - BABCP accreditation (full or provisional) ### Skills & Aptitudes **Essential** - Knowledge of and ability to implement behaviour change techniques and interventions as applied to healthy eating and physical exercise - 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 - Ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to patients and professional persons within and outside the NHS - Ability to act as a practitioner psychologist / CBT therapist and work autonomously in hospital settings - High level knowledge of psychology research design and methodology within physical health settings - Evidence of ongoing professional development in line with HCPC/BPS/BABCP requirements ### Royal Free shared commitments **Essential** - - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments. ## Documents - [fr (pdf, 111.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10652680) - [band 7 clinical psychologist - renal (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10598848) - [ps band 7 clinical psychologist - renal (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10598849) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.