# Neonatal Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/neonatal-clinical-psychologist/a467b40d-e48f-4274-ab3a-6f731a7069f5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/neonatal-clinical-psychologist/a467b40d-e48f-4274-ab3a-6f731a7069f5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - **Location:** Croydon University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £72,719 - £83,505 pa pro rata incl HCAS (Outer) - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term - Maternity Leave Cover) - **Employment type:** Part time - 26.25 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-12T08:59:51.158Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Thornton_Heath/Croydon_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8358739 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8358739?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skills in self-management, including time-management. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. - Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team. - 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 **Essential** - Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring utilising at least 2 therapeutic models. - Experience of supervising pre-qualified/qualified psychologists and/or professionals from other disciplines. - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and across the full range of clinical severity. - Experience of liaising with carers and families and external organisations that support these groups. - Ability to show autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, liaising with other professionals as necessary. - High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. **Desirable** - Experience of working in a neonatal, perinatal or critical care environment. - Formal training in supervision. - Formal quality improvement (QI) training. ### Education, Training and Qualifications **Essential** - 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. - Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist. **Desirable** - Further training in psychological approaches to trauma, parent-infant relationship work or systemic family therapy. - Pre- or post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. ### Key Competencies, Personal Qualities and Attributes **Essential** - Able to work autonomously and as part of a team. - Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients and with organisational stress. ## Documents - [chs accomodation (pdf, 676.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1725) - [croydon trust values (pdf, 324.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2317) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2414) - [chs dbs policy statement (pdf, 53.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=972) - [onboarding roadmap (chs) (pdf, 92.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2449) - [neonatal psychologist jd (pdf, 453.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10685059) - [map of croydon university hospital (pdf, 95.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=974) ## 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.