# Clinical Psychologist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Salisbury
- **Region:** South West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Psychologist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata if part time
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 33.75 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-19T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02T15:43:15.949Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Salisbury/Salisbury_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8067986
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8067986?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and hardworking psychologist to join our clinical psychology (health) department at Salisbury District Hospital.

Our department consists of clinical psychologists, CBT therapists, counsellors, assistant psychologists and our excellent admin team.

We work across the age-span, and with inpatients, outpatients, family members, and staff members. We regularly host undergraduate and post-graduate placements and doctoral trainees. The psychology department is well-established and valued within the hospital, Trust, and hospital group.

This role will predominantly involve direct clinical work with patients and their families, alongside service evaluation, supporting pathway improvement projects, and upskilling colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams.

We are a friendly, dedicated, and supportive team, evidenced through our outstanding results on the annual NHS Staff Survey. Members of the team gave particularly high positive scores for questions relating to their role, team, and leadership of the department.

If you would like to know more about the Trust, department, or this role, please do not hesitate to contact us.

### Main duties of the job

- To provide a clinical psychology service to a range of different departments within the hospital
- To provide psychological assessment, formulation, and therapy to patients and their families.
- To contribute psychological perspectives, formulations, and advice to multidisciplinary teams of the relevant departments at the hospital.
- To support the wider department in implementing and evaluating service priorities and improvements.
- To prepare and deliver teaching sessions to staff and/or patients.
- To maintain contemporaneous clinical records in line with NHS record keeping and GDPR requirements.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

## Person Specification

### Essential and desirable

**Essential**

- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
- HCPC registration
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in the field of clinical psychology as applied to physical health (working in physical healthcare settings)
- Experience of working in the field of clinical psychology as applied to physical health (working in a hospital setting)
- Experience of working in the field of clinical psychology as applied to physical health (applying psychological theory to formulation, assessment, intervention)
- Specialist knowledge and experience of psychological approaches to the management of trauma
- Experience of working with children and adults, and their families in relation to physical health and/or physical injury

## Documents

- [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618)
- [clinical psychologist_jd (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10380065)

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