Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in Paediatrics
| Posting date: | 29 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,927 - £68,676 p.a. Inclusive of HCA (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7300983/196-LIS9656 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be recruiting to the post of Practitioner Psychologist in Paediatric Psychology at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. (Band 8a, 0.8WTE). This is an exciting post providing a wide variety of experiences across a number of medical specialties.
The post-holder will be based within the diverse and welcomingPaediatric Psychology service at the Evelina London (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust), with the post being split across the Renal & Urology service (0.4WTE) and our Non-Embedded Specialities Team (NEST) (0.4WTE).
We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with children, young people and families with complex health conditions experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with professional colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care.
We would be delighted to share more about the post. For further information please contact Dr Sophie Dewar (Lead Practitioner Psychologist, NESTsophie.dewar3@nhs.net) or Dr Stacie Bowden (Lead Practitioner Psychologist in Renal and Urologystacie.bowden3@nhs.net).
In both sides of this role psychology provision is offered to families on an in- and an out-patient basis. The post holder will provide individual work with young people and families as well as group work and broader MDT liaison and consultation.
The Renal & Urology service offers a multi-disciplinary integrated package of care for young people referred. The post holder will be required to work as a core team member, involved in clinics, group interventions and 1:1 psychology provision, as well as offering case consultation and liaison.
Within NEST you will be joining a team within Paediatric Psychology who provide input across a wide range of medical teams within the Evelina London, e.g. general paediatrics, orthopaedics, haematology, and surgery. This requires working with a broad range of experiences across specialties, and will also include a significant element of MDT liaison and consultation.
Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings and developments across our diverse services.Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team.Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; journal club, reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We have around 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Please see the attached job description and Person Specification form for full information and details.
This advert closes on Monday 14 Jul 2025
We are delighted to be recruiting to the post of Practitioner Psychologist in Paediatric Psychology at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. (Band 8a, 0.8WTE). This is an exciting post providing a wide variety of experiences across a number of medical specialties.
The post-holder will be based within the diverse and welcomingPaediatric Psychology service at the Evelina London (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust), with the post being split across the Renal & Urology service (0.4WTE) and our Non-Embedded Specialities Team (NEST) (0.4WTE).
We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with children, young people and families with complex health conditions experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with professional colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care.
We would be delighted to share more about the post. For further information please contact Dr Sophie Dewar (Lead Practitioner Psychologist, NESTsophie.dewar3@nhs.net) or Dr Stacie Bowden (Lead Practitioner Psychologist in Renal and Urologystacie.bowden3@nhs.net).
In both sides of this role psychology provision is offered to families on an in- and an out-patient basis. The post holder will provide individual work with young people and families as well as group work and broader MDT liaison and consultation.
The Renal & Urology service offers a multi-disciplinary integrated package of care for young people referred. The post holder will be required to work as a core team member, involved in clinics, group interventions and 1:1 psychology provision, as well as offering case consultation and liaison.
Within NEST you will be joining a team within Paediatric Psychology who provide input across a wide range of medical teams within the Evelina London, e.g. general paediatrics, orthopaedics, haematology, and surgery. This requires working with a broad range of experiences across specialties, and will also include a significant element of MDT liaison and consultation.
Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings and developments across our diverse services.Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team.Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; journal club, reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We have around 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Please see the attached job description and Person Specification form for full information and details.
This advert closes on Monday 14 Jul 2025