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We are delighted to be recruiting to a 0.4 wte B7 Practitioner Psychologist in the Paediatric Psychology Service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. This is a temporary post funded for 6 months due to secondment cover within the team. This post, based within our Children’s Allergy Service is an exciting and varied role providing a wide range of experiences and opportunities.
We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with children, young people and families with complex health conditions experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with professional colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care.
We would be delighted to share more about the post. For further information or an informal discussion please contact Dr Leah Kugelmass, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, at [email protected] or 02071884640
Anticipated interview date: week commencing 3rd August 2026
Main duties of the job
The post will be based within the Children’s Allergy Service offering a wide range of opportunities and varied ways of working.
The Paediatric Allergy Psychology Team provides psychological support to young people and families accessing the Children’s Allergy Service. We aim to consider all of the child’s allergies together, considering their impact and potential treatment on the physical and emotional wellbeing of each child and family. The psychologist will be based within a small team of other psychologists across different grades.
The role requires outpatient working and may involve inpatient working. Direct clinical input to young people and families, group work, MDT working, team liaison, and staff consultation are all fundamental elements of the work offered by the Children’s Allergy Service.
The post sits within Paediatric Psychology Services, which offers good opportunities for collaborative working, audit, research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings and developments. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; journal club, reflective practice groups, and peer supervision as well as SIG networks nationally. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification document for full information and details regarding the current post.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others particularly systemic and third wave cognitive behavioural approaches.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological, neuropsychological and behavioural assessment and intervention, requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A strong ability to communicate at both a written and oral level, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS. This may require negotiating, motivating, training, reassuring others and demonstrating empathy.
- Experience and ability to undertake risk assessment of children and families in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the theory of specialised psychological therapies in areas of physical health.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of patients with physical health problems.
- Experience of working psychologically with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups in the area of physical health.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to maintain periods of prolonged concentration frequently throughout the day as required for complex methods of psychological assessment and delivery of interventions.
Additional Information
Essential
- Willingness to broaden range of skills and take initiative in both own professional development and the development of the service.
Desirable
- Experience of working with interpreters.
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training as a practitioner psychologist (e.g. Clinical, Counselling, Educational or Health Psychology) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) / Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro-psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
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This advert is for Practitioner Psychologist: Paediatric Allergy with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inc HCA. The contract type is Fixed term: 6 months (Secondment Cover). The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.
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