# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinical-psychologist/4448d9e5-5a4b-4ea2-85bd-6cabf4b8668f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinical-psychologist/4448d9e5-5a4b-4ea2-85bd-6cabf4b8668f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T13:43:19.249Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London_Tooting/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8040094 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8040094?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are excited to offer two posts for psychologists to work on our adult acute psychiatric wards. One of these is part of new investment as our organisation is enhancing the therapeutic environment and interventions on our wards where some wards will benefit from having full time qualified psychology input for the first time. The job involves a diverse range of tasks, including direct assessment and intervention, as well as many opportunities for indirect contributions to recovery, via training staff, reflective practice and service development. The posts established as 8a posts, however they can be taken as band 7 preceptorship posts with a pathway to transition to 8a after a minimum of 18 months. One post is shared across two mixed 18-bed acute wards. The other post covers only one ward, a single-sex, 18-bed unit. You will benefit from support from an assistant psychologist and be part of a team of 8 qualified and 5 assistant psychologists working in the Adult Inpatient Psychology Service. ### Main duties of the job service users on a mixed gender psychiatric ward, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the acute and urgent care pathway and ward policies and procedures. To support and enhance the work of the multi-disciplinary team by providing advice, consultation, training and supervision on service users’ psychological care to other members of the team, including facilitating or supervising the facilitation of reflective practice groups. To lead on the  implementation of trauma informed approaches to care across two admission wards. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service and participate in service-related quality improvement and innovation  projects. To take professional responsibility for attached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role  only), assistants and/or graduate psychologists ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Regular contribution to daily MDT meetings to plan patient care - Joining MDT for individual patient reviews to ensure that psychological aspects of their difficulties and care planning are considered - Direct sessions on the ward including individual patient assessment, formulation and treatment, as well as group and family sessions. - Indirect input to MDT to support staff in day-to-day management of patients. - Focus on service users who require one-to-one observations or seclusion to identify a pathway to reduce need for restriction. - Provision of regular reflective practice. - Regular contribution to various aspects of service improvement for ward one. - Provision of supervision to other qualified psychology staff working on acute wards. - Contribution to wider service planning and improvement for the adult inpatient services. ## Job Details We are excited to offer two posts for psychologists to work on our adult acute psychiatric wards. One of these is part of new investment as our organisation is enhancing the therapeutic environment and interventions on our wards where some wards will benefit from having full time qualified psychology input for the first time. The job involves a diverse range of tasks, including direct assessment and intervention, as well as many opportunities for indirect contributions to recovery, via training staff, reflective practice and service development. The posts established as 8a posts, however they can be taken as band 7 preceptorship posts with a pathway to transition to 8a after a minimum of 18 months. One post is shared across two mixed 18-bed acute wards. The other post covers only one ward, a single-sex, 18-bed unit. You will benefit from support from an assistant psychologist and be part of a team of 8 qualified and 5 assistant psychologists working in the Adult Inpatient Psychology Service. ## Job Description service users on a mixed gender psychiatric ward, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the acute and urgent care pathway and ward policies and procedures. To support and enhance the work of the multi-disciplinary team by providing advice, consultation, training and supervision on service users’ psychological care to other members of the team, including facilitating or supervising the facilitation of reflective practice groups. To lead on the implementation of trauma informed approaches to care across two admission wards. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service and participate in service-related quality improvement and innovation projects. To take professional responsibility for attached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role only), assistants and/or graduate psychologists ## Responsibilities Regular contribution to daily MDT meetings to plan patient care Joining MDT for individual patient reviews to ensure that psychological aspects of their difficulties and care planning are considered Direct sessions on the ward including individual patient assessment, formulation and treatment, as well as group and family sessions. Indirect input to MDT to support staff in day-to-day management of patients. Focus on service users who require one-to-one observations or seclusion to identify a pathway to reduce need for restriction. Provision of regular reflective practice. Regular contribution to various aspects of service improvement for ward one. Provision of supervision to other qualified psychology staff working on acute wards. Contribution to wider service planning and improvement for the adult inpatient services. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse - Experience of working with people who experience severe, complex and long-term mental health problems - Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision while working as a psychological therapist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology **Desirable** - Post qualification experience of working in acute psychiatric ward - Post qualification training in CBTp - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision - Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts - Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team - Experience of working within a multicultural framework - Post qualification experience of working with a Home Treatment Team. ### Training & Qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology (for Clinical Psychologists), two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS - Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (Practitioner Psychologist, domain: Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist) **Desirable** - Post qualification training in applied research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology ## Documents - [jd/ps (pdf, 498.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10328563) - [trust values (pdf, 785.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2069) - [staff benefits (pdf, 239.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2318) - [swlstg diversity (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2314) - [swlstg privacy notice (pdf, 106.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2510) - [dbs information for candidates (pdf, 109.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=627) - [anti racism values into actions (pdf, 815.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2865) ## 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.