Paediatric Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the largest paediatric psychology service inthe UK. The postholder will join dynamic and supportive clinical psychology teams attached to theSpecialist Health Conditions Streamand the Pain Service. The postholder will work with themultidisciplinary teams in these areas and provide specialist psychological assessment andintervention to children and their families. The successful candidate will join a supportive team ofpsychologists working across these medical specialties whilst also being able to access the learningand opportunities that come with being part of a large psychology service at a leading children’shospital.

Clinical Psychology is a highly valued profession within each multi-disciplinary team helping tooptimise care by working with patients, their families and the MDT who are struggling withprocedural fear, treatment adherence, decision-making, pain management and co-morbid mentalhealth difficulties (e.g. anxiety and depression), as well as supporting staff wellbeing in a busymedical environment. The postholder will also be a part of innovative individual, group and socialinterventions designed to support children and families managing illness-related stigma, supportingyoung people to function despite their symptoms, and develop independent identities thatincorporate their health condition.

Please note vacancy may close early if we receive large volume of applications.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will have opportunities to develop supervision, teaching and training skills with ourlarge team of pre-qualification psychologists including trainee clinical psychologists. The postholderwill have opportunities to develop research skills by participating in the ongoing programme ofquality improvement and research projects in conjunction with UCL Institute of Child Health, thelargest concentration of child health research outside of North America.

The postholder will be encouraged to engage with ongoing professional development opportunitieswith clinical special interest groups such as ACT, medical trauma, cognitive assessment and medicallyunexplained symptoms and through the Institute of Child Health and GOSH Learning Academy.There is a national specialist interest group for pain and rheumatology that the post holder would bepart of and there are opportunities to both attend and present in conferences for both medicalspecialities.

Person Specification

GOSH Values

Essential

• GOSH Values

Education and qualifications

Essential

• Good honours degree in Psychology.
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS/HCPC, including clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as Practitioner Psychologist
• Eligibility for Chartered Status and membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their carers, and other professionals.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
• Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team working
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, including verbal abuse.
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Desirable

• Ability to administer, score and interpret a range of cognitive assessment tools

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts and of working in a multicultural framework
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and child protection.
• Experience in delivering evidence-based interventions for a range of child and adolescent mental health and physical problems
• Knowledge and Understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.

Desirable

• Evidence of working psychologically with children and/or adults in a physical health setting
• Experience of teaching or training.

Closing Date: 31 August 2026