Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
London, NW3 2QGView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£58,133 to £65,261
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
27 October 2026
8 days leftJob description
We are offering an exciting fixed term post (0.35WTE) within the large regional plastic surgery unit of the Royal Free Hospital, where you will join t...
You will be responsible for providing psychological care across both our in-patient and out-patient service, face-to-face and virtually. The focus of clinical work is often on decision-making, addressing the psychological consequences of injury or disease, removing barriers to rehabilitation and care or work around body image and appearance. You will be expected to provide guidance to colleagues and families as appropriate and engage in joint work, as well as attend multi-disciplinary meetings. There are other opportunities for training our colleagues. You can also gain experience in service development and supervision. You will have access to supervision and training, with a variety of different therapeutic modalities within our service.
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.
As a trust we stand for being positively welcoming, actively respectful, clearly communicating and visibly reassuring. We focus on delivering excellent and equitable care, ensure an outstanding experience for our patients and carers, where colleagues feel a strong connection to their work and organisation and are enabled to deliver and realise their potential.
For more information please follow link -
https: //www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the British Psychological Society
- HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Royal Free shared commitments
Essential: - o Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments, including joint consultations with medical/physical health staff.
- Experienced in oral presentations, working with people in groups
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Audit experience
- Experience of working within a plastic surgery, burns or acute/community health setting, providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients, including outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Experience in working with people who have had cancer, chronic health conditions and other health problems across the lifespan.
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- management. E A/I Knowledge of theoretical models and psychological interventions relevant to the needs of patients with disfiguring conditions, body image anxiety and PTSD and those experiencing psychological difficulties secondary to their health condition
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and quantitative data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the British Psychological Society/HCPC.
Qualities & attributes
Essential
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team and able to use time effectively and prioritise workload
- Ability to be reflective about own practice and style and enthusiastic about psychology in health settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appr to support and maintain clinical practice and service deliveryopriate
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
14 October 2026
Last checked
15 October 2026
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