Practitioner Psychologist: Paediatric Respiratory & NEST

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a full-time Practitioner Psychologist to join the Paediatric Psychology Service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. The role involves varied experiences across different specialties, including Paediatric Respiratory and NEST. The successful candidate will work with children and families facing complex health conditions, providing high-quality psychological care. Candidates should possess doctoral-level training and be registered with HCPC. Competitive salary offered, along with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Doctoral-level training accredited by BPS/HCPC including clinical psychometrics.
• Experience working psychologically with various client groups.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and provide consultations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct inpatient and outpatient psychological assessments.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver holistic care.
• Participate in research, training, and peer supervision.

Skills

Knowledge of psychological interventions

Strong communication skills

Risk assessment ability

Skills in psychological assessment

Consultation skills

Education

Doctoral-level training as a Practitioner Psychologist

Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Practitioner Psychologist: Paediatric Respiratory & NEST

Closing date: 10 February 2026

We are delighted to be recruiting for a full‑time B7 Practitioner Psychologist in the Paediatric Psychology Service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. This exciting, varied post provides a wide range of experiences across different specialities – Respiratory and our Non‑Embedded Specialities Team (NEST) covering orthopaedics, palliative care, surgery, plastics, and intensive care.

We are looking for a motivated psychologist who is keen to work with children, young people and families with complex health conditions and associated psychological distress. You will collaborate with professional colleagues to deliver high‑quality holistic care.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Dr Amelia Carton, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, at [e-mail].

Anticipated interview date: 17 February 2026

Main duties of the job

The post consists of 3 days a week in Paediatric Respiratory and 2 days in the NEST team. The role requires inpatient and outpatient work; multidisciplinary team (MDT) working, team liaison, and staff consultation is a fundamental part of the work.

The respiratory service supports children and families with long‑term ventilation, complex asthma and other respiratory conditions. The post holder will be supported by a senior psychologist in the respiratory service.

Within NEST, psychologists provide support across general medicine and medical specialities that do not have an embedded psychology service. The psychologist will work within a small team of psychologists different grades.

The Paediatric Psychology Service offers opportunities for collaborative work, audit, research, teaching and training. We meet regularly to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings. Supervision is provided by an experienced Psychologist. Additional opportunities include journal club, reflective practice groups, peer supervision and national SIG networks. Service‑relevant CPD is actively encouraged.

About us

We are one of the UK's busiest and most successful foundation trusts, delivering specialist care for patients and a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

As part of King's Health Partners, we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world‑class clinical services, teaching and research. We co‑host one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres with King's College London, established in 2007, and dedicated clinical research facilities.

We employ around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and a major local employer. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continuously develop partnerships with local people, patients, neighboring NHS organisations, local authorities, charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff, as their dedication and skills lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure our services are of the highest quality, safe and patient‑focused.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification document for full information and details regarding the current post.

Person Specification

Knowledge / Qualifications

• Doctoral‑level training as a practitioner psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Educational or Health Psychology) accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) / Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro‑psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Experience

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of patients with physical health problems.
• Experience working psychologically with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with a full range of clinical severity, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in highly emotive and distressing situations.
• Experience of applying psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience working in a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Experience providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups in the area of physical health.

Skills

• Knowledge of psychological interventions, particularly systemic and third‑wave cognitive–behavioural approaches.
• Skills in complex methods of psychological, neuro‑psychological and behavioural assessment and intervention requiring sustained concentration.
• Strong ability to communicate at both written and oral levels, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS; including negotiation, motivation, training, reassurance and empathy.
• Experience and ability to undertake risk assessment of children and families in relation to self‑harm and harm to others, and to refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
• Skills providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
• Specialist knowledge of the theory of specialised psychological therapies in areas of physical health.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to maintain prolonged periods of concentration frequently throughout the day as required for complex psychological assessment and intervention.

Additional Information

• Willingness to broaden range of skills and take initiative in both own professional development and the development of the service.
• Experience working with interpreters.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous convictions.

£56,276 to £63,176 a year (pro rata), including Health Care Allowance.