Senior Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Closing Date:01.11.26

Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 02.11.26

Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: W/C 09.11.26 exact date TBC

We are genuinely delighted to be able to offer this unique role for a Senior Clinical Psychologist to work with patients under the care of the Renal Team at BTHFT

The post is based in the Clinical Health Psychology Department at BTHFT, who have specialised in working with patients with complex physical health difficulties for over 30 years.

Main duties of the job

Above all we are looking for applicants with enthusiasm for working in Clinical Health Psychology.

The clinical role is varied: in any week it may involve assessing a potential live kidney donor, seeing patients in Psychology Outpatients for therapy and consulting to the Renal team around a young adult who is refusing to start life-saving dialysis. It may also include providing some teaching to the Renal MDT, offering clinical supervision to a colleague and involvement in regional or national initiatives in Renal Psychosocial care.

The role will particularly suit applicants with solid psychological therapy skills, the ability to work effectively alongside MDT colleagues and a preparedness to work into different levels of the system in the interests of delivering high quality patient care.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide range of adults, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and residential care settings.
• 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.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of delivering teaching, training and clinical supervision.
• Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of the application of Psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with adults with physical health difficulties

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Highly 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.
• Skills in providing consultation & supervision to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Desirable

• Skills in the administration and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two highly specialised psychological therapies
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality

Desirable

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group.
• Completed post-qualification supervision training

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
• Registered with HCPC

Other

Essential

• Demonstrable interest in and enthusiasm for working with this specific clinical population
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• The postholder must have an independent means of motorised transport with access to a vehicle for work (or acceptable alternative)

Desirable

• Fluent in Urdu/Punjabi

Closing Date: 1 November 2026