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Join a leading children's hospital as a Clinical Psychologist to provide psychological care for young patients with cancer. Collaborate with a dedicated team while developing your skills in a supportive environment, with opportunities for research and professional growth.
Go back Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 15 July 2025
The Paediatric Psychosocial Service at Royal Manchester Children Hospital is looking for a committed Psychologist looking for a rewarding job, where you can make a difference as you develop your expertise. This role is for an 0.8 wte HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist, at band 8a. This post provides an exciting opportunity to develop and provide a new clinical psychology service responsible for the psychological care for teenagers and young adults with cancer.
The post will be located at the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Centre at the Christie Hospital in South Manchester and organisationally based within the Paediatric Psychosocial Service at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, part of Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
You will work alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist within the team, been responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and neuropsychological assessments, MDT working, risk assessment and facilitating staff reflective practice sessions.
As a Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user's caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.
There is a strong emphasis on teamwork with regular supervision and CPD opportunities available to support you in reaching your career aspirations.
Your responsibilities:
Providing evidence-based psychological assessment
Helping to establishing and developing the clinical psychology service
Contributing to MDT care planning and review
Contributing to audit and research
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
Accredited post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology
Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) (or qualification pending)
Post-qualification experience of working within the fields of paediatric, adolescent or adult health psychology
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
We work with hospital inpatients, groups, and with face-to-face as well as online/virtual modalities. We run patient groups, consultation groups and psychosocial meetings with other medical specialties, we actively contribute to the wider Trust Schwartz team and support a range of therapeutic intervention modalities, including neuropsychology, family therapy, ACT, CFT, Narrative, CBT approaches and psychotherapeutic approaches.
We are a committed research service with our team contributing to a wide range of research projects and host some of our own too. Continuing professional development and further training is supported and encouraged at this grade in association with the appraisal process
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
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.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum (pro rata)