# Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/b3486464-1f16-4de6-a3ea-c51507c74a31 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/b3486464-1f16-4de6-a3ea-c51507c74a31.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inc HCAS pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 15 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T12:33:25.592Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Harrow/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_PsychologyPaediatrics/Clinical_PsychologyPaediatrics-v8015213 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8015213?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This job represents an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified clinical psychologist to develop their skills and experience in the field of paediatrics. You will be part of a growing paediatric psychology service based at Northwick Park Hospital with a responsibility for supporting children and young people (CYP) with diabetes across Ealing hospital and Northwick Park hospital. Alongside working with CYP with diabetes, there will be the possibility of supporting CYP with other diagnoses such as epilepsy. Experience of working in paediatric psychology is  desirable, but not essential as  you will be supervised by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist and part of a developing paediatric psychology team. You will have an interest in applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. There will be indirect work via liaison and consultation with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies. Part of your role may include staff support, providing debriefs and regular reflective practice to teams, as well as MDT teaching. You will be part of the wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service. This service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing. There is also a CNWL paediatric diabetes specialist interest group that meets quarterly. ### Main duties of the job To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to CYP being seen within the Paediatric Service at Northwick Park Hospital and Ealing Hospital across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. The majority of the post would be working as an integrated member of the well established paediatric multidisciplinary diabetes services at Ealing and Northwick Park hospitals. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. - To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. - To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. - To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. - To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. - To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. - To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. - To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychological care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. - To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. ## Job Details This job represents an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified clinical psychologist to develop their skills and experience in the field of paediatrics. You will be part of a growing paediatric psychology service based at Northwick Park Hospital with a responsibility for supporting children and young people (CYP) with diabetes across Ealing hospital and Northwick Park hospital. Alongside working with CYP with diabetes, there will be the possibility of supporting CYP with other diagnoses such as epilepsy. Experience of working in paediatric psychology is desirable, but not essential as you will be supervised by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist and part of a developing paediatric psychology team. You will have an interest in applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. There will be indirect work via liaison and consultation with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies. Part of your role may include staff support, providing debriefs and regular reflective practice to teams, as well as MDT teaching. You will be part of the wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service. This service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing. There is also a CNWL paediatric diabetes specialist interest group that meets quarterly. ## Job Description To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to CYP being seen within the Paediatric Service at Northwick Park Hospital and Ealing Hospital across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. The majority of the post would be working as an integrated member of the well established paediatric multidisciplinary diabetes services at Ealing and Northwick Park hospitals. ## Responsibilities To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychological care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings - Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including child, young people and their families. **Desirable** - Pre and/or post qualification experience of working in a paediatric psychology team - Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervising ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. **Desirable** - Skills in offering consultation/reflective practice within multidisciplinary acute health setting ### Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Compassionate for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff - Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated - Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves - Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals. ### Education & Qualification **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. - Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist -domain of clinical psychology **Desirable** - Training and qualifications in a relevant field of applied psychology/research methodology. ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [jd band 7 lnwh diabetes (pdf, 208.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10301417) - [person spec band 7 lnwh diabetes (pdf, 128.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10301418) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) - [accommodation information for new starters (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2438) ## 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.