Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned health organization in London seeks a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist to provide psychological care for trauma patients. Responsibilities include delivering integrated care, supporting after-trauma pathways, and supervising clinical staff. Ideal candidates have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience in physical health settings. This position offers a chance to work in a leading NHS Trust known for innovation and transformation.

Benefits

Interesting clinical challenges

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent.
• Relevant specialist training for post-trauma therapy.
• Significant experience as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological input for the RLH MTC pathway for adults.
• Plan and deliver a psychology service in after-trauma care.
• Teach and supervise nursing and multi-disciplinary colleagues.

Skills

Effective communication with healthcare professionals

Assessment and mediation in crisis situations

Formulating complex client difficulties

Selecting and applying psychometric tests

Doctoral level research skills

Education

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Specialist training in managing violence and aggression

Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees

Job description

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Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist, London

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Client:

Barts Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Posted:

12.08.2025

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Job overview

Barts Health NHS Trust aims to be renowned for excellence, innovation and providing safe, compassionate care. Exemplary since 2023, the Royal London Hospital (RLH) Major Trauma Centre (MTC) has formally provided integrated physical and psychological care, within the Pan-London Major Trauma Psychology Network. This is supported by NHS London’s Violence Reduction Programme, so is deservedly high profile.

The post holder will have a key presence in the delivery of our comprehensive, integrated model of care for all trauma patients (children and adults) ensuring equity of integrated, high quality physical and psychological trauma care in London’s MTCs. This approach can be stepped up when a major incident occurs.

The service continues to implement and develop this model within Barts Health NHS Trust, putting patients at the heart of this transformation, and also collaborating across the London MTC system to establish system-wide governance and communication. Evidence gathering, evaluation and broadcasting are key, to enable discussion with local and national commissioners around implementation potential.

The team comprises Band 7, 8a and 8c Practitioner Psychologists, plus Assistants and Trainees, integrated within the RLH paediatric and adult workforce. Due to existing staffing, we are seeking applications from those with potential to focus on adults but the service does cover all ages.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for providing a highly specialist, psychology input to the planning, development and delivery of the RLH MTC pathway for over eighteen-year-olds.

• Responsible for planning, developing and providing a psychology service supporting after-trauma care across the pathway, from the ward and into the community, both directly and indirectly, through staff and carer consultation.

• Teaching, training and supervision of nursing and other multi-disciplinary colleagues on psychological and/or neuropsychological theory and practice, as required.

• Implementation of the published guidance for major trauma, to maximise an embedded approach to team working, and other service delivery, based upon the evidence base and NHS guidelines.

• Providing clinical supervision to qualified, assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, as required.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

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.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS and HCPC.
• Relevant specialist training or qualifications in managing violence and aggression or post- trauma therapy such as EMDR.
• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.
• Progressing towards or have achieved eligibility for the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists with the British Psychological Society.

Experience

• Assessed and substantial experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including relevant experience in physical health settings since qualification.
• Experience of working with people who may be reluctant to engage with services, and the people and systems around them, including carers.
• Experience of working in a physical health setting, providing highly specialist health psychology assessment and treatment, with children and/or adults.
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters.
• Experience in an acute healthcare setting, including close physical proximity to service-users who have recently been exposed to life-threatening levels of injury.
• Experience with people who may have experienced levels of intentional physical harm, to others or self.

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals and colleagues.
• Ability to contain, assess and mediate in situations with service-users where they may be distressed and/or at risk to themselves and others.
• Ability to formulate complex clients’ presenting difficulties within a theoretical framework, to plan and deliver an appropriate specialist treatment intervention, and to evaluate the efficacy and outcome of treatment.
• Skills in selecting and applying psychometric tests.
• Doctoral level research skills and experience of both quantitative and qualitative research methods

Communication

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Working to Professional Guidelines.
• Must be capable of autonomous and independent practice necessitating the adoption of responsibility for own work and interventions, and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies.
• Skills in engaging those who may not be comfortable accessing services, due to systemic issues.