Job requirements
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Skills in self-management, including time-management.
- Skills
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills
Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Skills
Ability to cope with a fast-paced work environment, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring utilising at least 2 therapeutic models.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of supervising pre-qualified/qualified psychologists and/or professionals from other disciplines.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and across the full range of clinical severity.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of liaising with carers and families and external organisations that support these groups.
- Knowledge and Experience
Ability to show autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, liaising with other professionals as necessary.
- Knowledge and Experience
High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling, or health psychology, including models of psychopathology, psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Key Competencies, Personal Qualities and Attributes
Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Key Competencies, Personal Qualities and Attributes
Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients and with organisational stress.
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working in a neonatal, perinatal or critical care environment.
- Knowledge and Experience
Formal training in supervision.
- Knowledge and Experience
Formal quality improvement (QI) training.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Further training in psychological approaches to trauma, parent-infant relationship work or systemic family therapy.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Pre- or post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Job overview
Neonatal Clinical Psychologist Band 8B
Band 8B - 26.25 hpw - Fixed Term 12 Months - Maternity Leave Cover
Clinical Psychologists and other accredited psychological professionals, with specialist expertise in neonatology, are key providers of evidence-based psychological assessment and interventions for parents, infants and staff on neonatal units. They work as part of an MDT, provide consultation to medical teams on complex cases and supervise other professionals delivering psychological interventions for parents and providing staff support. They can provide assessment and intervention in four important areas within neonatal units:
- Parental and family mental health
- Infant Mental Health
- Staff Support and Training
Main duties of the job
Neonatal Clinical Psychologist
- To provide highly specialist psychological support to babies, their families and staff on the Neonatal Care Unit at CUH.
- To liaise closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide specialised advice and consultation on babies and families psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.
- To work systemically, supporting the neonatal MDT to deliver psychologically informed care to babies and their families.
- To contribute to the delivery of teaching, training and supervision for both psychology and non-psychologist colleagues in order to enable them to identify early families who will benefit from specialist input. For example, developing and promoting screening tools for bedside staff to use.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification***
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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 Neonatal Clinical Psychologist with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust in Croydon, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £72,719 - £83,505 pa pro rata incl HCAS (Outer). The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term - Maternity Leave Cover). The application deadline is 23 Oct 2026.
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