Clinical Psychologist (XR07)

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join their Paediatric Psychology team in Leeds for a 12-month fixed-term role. The successful candidate will engage in delivering specialist psychological assessments and therapies for children. This role requires autonomous work within a multidisciplinary team, offering extensive clinical experiences and professional development opportunities. A strong background in clinical psychology is necessary, along with the ability to work effectively with families and healthcare professionals.

Benefits

Flexible job plan

Training opportunities

Peer supervision framework

Qualifications

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology and complex data analysis.
• Experience of working in a Paediatric health care setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide qualified clinical psychology services in Paediatric Psychology.
• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and therapy for patients.
• Contribute to risk assessment and management for patients.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Communication

Teaching and training

Emotional support

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

TheLeeds Childrens Hospital is looking to recruit a B7 Clinical Psychologist toour Paediatric Psychology team for a 1.0 WTE (subject to approval ofadditional hours) 12 months Fixed Term post. The post holder will workalongside Senior Clinical Psychologists to support the Regional PaediatricDiabetes, Chronic Pain and Cystic Fibrosis teams through multi-disciplinaryteam (MDT) and outpatient working (with one day a month at the Hull RoyalInfirmary), as well as contributing towards the Department's inpatient wardcover rota.

Youwill be working as part of supportive and friendly clinical teams, alongsideexperienced as well as more recently qualified psychology colleagues. Thepost will be flexible to suit a candidates preferences, and your job planwill offer a wide range of clinical experiences, including specialty work asan integrated part of the MDT, in-patient, out-patient and consultativeworking, as well as liaison with medical MDTs and colleagues in Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service.

Wefully adhere to the BPS position on CPD and have a strong track record ofproviding excellent training opportunities and clinical supervision in a widerange of therapy modalities. Furthermore,we have an established peer supervision framework and there is an activeregional post-qualification training group, which you would be encouraged tojoin.

Expected ShortlistingDate15/01/2026

Planned InterviewDate28/01/2026

Main duties of the job

Toprovide a qualified clinical psychology service in Paediatric Psychology:

a) providing specialist psychologicalassessment and therapy to patients and their families living with long termconditions.

b) offering advice and consultation onpatients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to othernon-professional carers

c) using research skills for audit,policy and service development and leading on research projects within theareas served by the teams/service

d) working autonomously in the executionof these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall frameworkof the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.

About us

LeedsChildren's Hospital covers 27 medical and surgical specialties and is one ofthe largest specialist children's hospitals in the country. We have over 20inpatient wards, employ over 800 nurses and last year held over 170,000outpatient appointments and treated over 25,000 surgical patients bothelectively/non-electively.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is currently embarking on one of the largest and mosthigh-profile investment, transformation and regeneration programmes in thecity and the wider region. Its Building the Leeds Way Programme aims totransform healthcare for patients in Leeds and the wider region. Theinvestment Programme include the construction of two new hospitals at theLeeds General Infirmary (LGI) site one for adults and the other a brand stateof the art Children's Hospital for Leeds and the surrounding region.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

1. To provide specialist psychologicalassessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation andintegration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychologicaland neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct andindirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews withpatients, family members and others involved in the patients care.

2. To formulate and implement plans forthe formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patientspsychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of thepatients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy,across the full range of care settings, including integration intomultidisciplinary team clinics.

3. To be responsible for implementing arange of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families andgroups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis,adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon differentexplanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions abouttreatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic modelsand highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes,as well as condition specific factors,that have shaped the individual,family or group.

5. To exercise autonomous professionalresponsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whosedifficulties are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

6. To provide specialist psychologicaladvice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributingdirectly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans and to workalongside colleagues from different disciplines as required.

7. To contribute directly and indirectlyto a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefitof all patients of the services, across all settings and agencies serving thepatient group.

8. To undertake risk assessment and riskmanagement for individual patients and to provide advice to other professionson psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management withparticular reference to deliberate self-harm.

9. To act as care coordinator, whereappropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of careplans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health caresetting) including patients, their carers, referring agents and othersinvolved the network of care.

10. To communicate in a skilled andsensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation andtreatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress duringthe course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Teaching,training, and supervision:

1. To receive regular clinicalprofessional supervision from a clinical psychologist and, where appropriate,other senior professional colleagues*.

*Please note that all post holders of clinical psychology posts receiveclinical supervision. This is not to be confused with management supervisionin AFC terms.

2. To develop skills in the area ofprofessional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to providesupervision to other multidisciplinary staffs psychological work, asappropriate.

3. To provide professional and clinicalsupervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, tocontribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinicalpsychologists.

4. To contribute to the pre- andpost-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, asappropriate.

5. To provide advice, consultation andtraining to staff working with the patient group across a range of agenciesand settings, where appropriate.

Management,recruitment, policy and service development:

1. To contribute to the development,evaluation and monitoring of Trust and the Department operational policiesand services, through the deployment of professional skills in research,service evaluation and audit.

2. To advise Senior, Principal or LeadConsultant Clinical Psychologist on those aspects of the service wherepsychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

3. To manage the workloads of assistantand graduate psychologists within the framework of the Trust and theDepartments policies and procedures.

4. To be involved, as appropriate, inthe short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.

Researchand service evaluation:

1. To use theory, evidence-basedliterature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual workand work with other team members.

2. To undertake, as a major component ofthe post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staffundertaking research.

3. To lead on research projects withinthe area served by the team/service.

4. To undertake project management,including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within theservice to help develop service provision.

General:

1. To contribute to the development andmaintenance of the highest professional standards of practice through (a)active participation in internal and external CPD training and developmentprogrammes in consultation with the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist andDepartment Supervision Co-ordinator, and (b) the encouragement and activeparticipation of service users in the design, provision and evaluation ofclinical services.

2. To contribute to the development andarticulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuingto develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner,taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintainingan active engagement with current developments in the fields of clinicalpsychology, neuropsychology and related disciplines.

3. To maintain the highest standards ofclinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, reportwriting and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance inaccordance with professional codes of practice of the British PsychologicalSociety and Trust policies and procedures.

4. To maintain up to date knowledge oflegislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to thespecific patient group, mental health, clinical psychology, and healthpsychology in general.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
• Experience of providing psychological assessments and intervention in a Paediatric health care setting, working alongside medical MDTs

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology
• Two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Skills & behaviours

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients and their families.
• Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.

Additional Requirements

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support the clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

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.