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Job overview
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the largest paediatric psychology service in the UK. The postholder will join dynamic and supportive clinical psychology teams attached to the Specialist Health Conditions Stream. The postholder will work with the multidisciplinary teams in these areas and provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention to children and their families. The successful candidate will join a supportive team of psychologists working across these medical specialties whilst also being able to access the learning and opportunities that come with being part of a large psychology service at a leading children’s hospital.
Clinical Psychology is a highly valued profession within each multi-disciplinary team helping to optimise care by working with patients, their families and the MDT who are struggling with procedural fear, treatment adherence, decision-making, and co-morbid mental health difficulties, as well as supporting staff wellbeing in a busy medical environment. The postholder will also be a part of innovative individual, group and social interventions designed to support children and families managing illness-related stigma, supporting young people to function despite their symptoms, and develop independent identities that incorporate their health condition.
Please note we may close the Job prior to closing date if we have a large volume of applicants
Main duties of the job
The postholder will have opportunities to develop supervision, teaching and training skills with our large team of pre-qualification psychologists including trainee clinical psychologists. The postholder will have opportunities to develop research skills by participating in the ongoing programme of quality improvement and research projects in conjunction with UCL Institute of Child Health, the largest concentration of child health research outside of North America.
The postholder will be encouraged to engage with ongoing professional development opportunities with clinical special interest groups such as ACT, medical trauma, cognitive assessment and medically unexplained symptoms and through the Institute of Child Health and GOSH Learning Academy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
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 and abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their carers, and other professionals.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Evidence of specialised psychological therapeutic skills as used in complex cases within paediatrics
- Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team working
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, including verbal abuse.
Desirable
- Evidence of service development and team leadership skills
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at specialist level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts and of working in a multicultural framework
- Experience of presenting psychology to multidisciplinary audiences at conferences or other educational settings.
- Experience of teaching or training
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and child protection.
- Experience of supervising qualified psychologists
- Experience and expertise of working within paediatrics
Desirable
- Experience of providing staff support
- Experience and expertise in working with children who have life limiting and life-threatening conditions, including experience of bereavement work
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential
- Our Always values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Good honours degree in Psychology.
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS/HCPC, including clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Eligibility for Chartered status and membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as Practitioner Psychologist.
- Post–doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
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This advert is for Senior Clinical Psychologist with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in Great Ormond Street Hospital. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive, pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term maternity cover). The application deadline is 31 Aug 2026.
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