Practitioner Psychologist in Neonatal Care
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,156.00 to £71,148.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9200-25-1291 |
Summary
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 teams 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.