Practitioner Psychologist in Neonatal Care | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	25 Tachwedd 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£64,156 - £71,148 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	25 Rhagfyr 2025
Lleoliad:	London, SW17 0QT
Cwmni:	st georges nhs trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7603037/200-7603037-DE-DG

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We are looking for an Band 8A clinical psychologist or practitioner psychologist to work in our large neonatal unit and as part of our thriving Paediatric Psychological Therapies Service (PPTS) at St Georges Hospital. If you are a Band 7 with paediatric psychology experience and feel ready to move to the next level, please also consider applying.

St Georges Hospital is one of London’s largest children’s hospitals, with one of only four paediatric trauma units in London. It also hosts the only paediatric intensive care unit in South West London. We are one of the top three centres for specialist paediatric surgery in London, and a centre of excellence in foetal medicine. Psychology plays a key role within children’s services, embedded within MDTs to deliver high quality evidence based and family integrated care.

The PPTS is a large, friendly and expanding team. We come from a wide variety of professional psychology backgrounds, including clinical psychologists, family therapists, mental health practitioners, assistant psychologists, trainees and administrators. Our service provides psychological support to both inpatient and outpatients, covering a wide range of specialties. There are many opportunities for CPD and a chance to develop your clinical and leadership skills.

For an informal discussion please contact Dr Laura Kollinsky, Clinical Psychologist in Paediatrics on 0208 725 2214.

This is a direct patient-facing 0.4 FTE role providing specialist psychological care to families and staff in our large tertiary level neonatal and special care baby unit.

Alongside direct clinical care, this role includes offering clinical supervision to other team members (e.g. Band 7, Trainee and Assistant Psychologists). There will also be scope to contribute to research and policy and to innovate with regards to service development and delivery.

The Neonatal unit at St George’s hospital is a tertiary level unit with 45 cots providing intensive care to the sickest babies in the region. It also has step down and a special care baby unit. The team has a long and established relationship with psychology and the role is well regarded in the unit. The post holder will work as an embedded member of the wider MDT and especially closely with our neonatal AHP and nursing colleagues. The neonatal unit at St George’s is the largest in South West London and works closely with the regional neonatal network and other providers in the patch.

As a Trust, we are a thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.

Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of families attending neonatal services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with family members, staff and others involved in the infants care.

2. To formulate and implement plans for psychological treatment and/or management of presenting issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problems, employing methods of proven efficacy and tailored to need.

3. To co-ordinate intervention alongside the multi-disciplinary teams where appropriate.

4. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for carers, families, groups, and staff employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of families.

7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the infant and/or family.

8. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of infants and families attending the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

12. Where appropriate to liaise with other local specialist services to enable effective case ongoing support, and to offer specialist advice, consultation and guidance to other health professionals concerning the management of such cases.

13. To develop educational materials for use with the MDT to inform clients on the psychological aspects of neonatal care.



Teaching, training and supervision

1. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

2. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologists attached to the team and/or assistant psychologists.

3. To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients’ functioning.

4. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology as appropriate.

5. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.


Management, recruitment, policy and service development

1. To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

2. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users.

3. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.

4. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists.


Research and service evaluation

1. To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team’s operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
2. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

3. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

4. To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services for neonatal babies and their families.


This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025

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