Assistant Psychologist

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an Assistant Psychologist (Band 4) to support the Major Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery psychology team at LGI and St James' University Hospital. The role involves clinical work with adults and children, administration and scoring of tests, and data handling for research projects.

You will be supervised by a clinical psychologist and participate in department activities, meetings, and Special Interest Groups, with opportunities to contribute

Qualifications

• Undertake clinical work with patients (adults and children) in Major Trauma and related services.
• Administer and score a range of psychological tests.
• Assist with data collection, entry and analysis for research projects.
• Liaise with a variety of professionals and receive supervision by a clinical psychologist.

Responsibilities

• Undertake clinical work with patients under Major Trauma and related services.
• Administer and score psychological tests; assess participants in research studies.
• Contribute to data collection and analysis; assist in writing papers and proposals.
• Utilise Excel for data handling; perform literature searches and SPSS analyses.

Skills

Clinical work with patients

Administer tests

Literature search

Liaise with professionals

Tools

SPSS

Excel

Job description

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Psychologist (Band 4), 1.0 WTE, to join us in providing specialist clinical psychology services to adults and children admitted following major trauma at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI). The successful candidate will have the opportunity to engage in a range of clinical and research activities, which will include direct therapeutic work with patients who have experienced traumatic injury both in an inpatient and outpatient setting. The role will be based at Leeds General Infirmary and St Jamess University Hospital. We welcome applications from individuals who have an interest in working in a clinical health setting. The successful candidate will be required to work alongside Clinical Psychologists who work as part of the major trauma psychology team. Duties may involve clinical assessment, including administering and scoring psychological tests, and delivering short-term therapeutic interventions with patients. Other duties include data collection and analysis as related to research projects and supporting in the development of research proposals and writing papers for publication.

Main duties of the job

To undertake clinical work with patients (both adults and children) under Major Trauma and related services. Duties will include administrating and scoring psychological tests; assessment of participants enrolled in research studies; maintenance of databases; data collection and analysis; and assistance with writing papers and research proposals. This can include the use of a database (Excel); advanced systematic literature searches and retrieval; data collection, entry and analysis using SPSS and liaison with a variety of professions. The appointee will be supervised by a clinical psychologist. Please se job description for further information.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Job description

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Louise Johnson Consultant Psychologist [e-mail] Shortlisting Date: 09/11/2026 Interview Date: 13/11/2026

Please Note: All salaries listed reflect the pay for full time roles. Any part time roles will be pro rata.

Job Summary

The post is part of the Major Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery psychology team. The post holder would be expected to attend team meetings, which are held on Wednesdays, at least once a month. The post holder would receive regular supervision from a qualified member of staff. In addition, there will be opportunities to participate in department-wide Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and to contribute to other activities that support and enhance patient experience.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust provides a range of high profile and expert clinical services which include major trauma, neurorehabilitation and cancer centres. It is an ambitious Trust with core values of empowerment, fairness, collaboration, accountability and patient-centred care. It is in this context that the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has flourished over the past decade. The Department now has over 60 clinicians organised in consultant-led teams. We are a friendly department with a good team spirit who value balancing our work and home life. We encourage flexible working which can, for example, include compression of working hours. The Trust has a range of excellent staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes) and on-site facilities.

Being part of a large teaching hospitals Trust, the Department of Clinical Health Psychology is academically ambitious with strong links to the regional clinical training programme, and schools of psychology, medicine and healthcare at the University of Leeds. There are opportunities for research, service-evaluation, audit, teaching and delivering supervision.

What you will bring to the role

• To undertake clinical work, which will include administrating and scoring a range of psychological tests with patients presenting with various conditions
• To provide research assistance for the assessment of participants enrolled in clinical trials
• To conduct data collection and analysis and assist with writing papers and research proposals
• To use a database (Excel); conduct advanced systematic literature searches and retrieval; data collection, entry and analysis using SPSS
• To liaise with a variety of professions
• To be supervised by a clinical psychologist working in clinical psychology.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.