Senior Clinical Psychologist | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 December 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7599171/287-RMED-456-25 |
Summary
Supported by the Trust Professional Lead for Psychology, the psychologist will contribute to developing, delivering and evaluating psychology services in the A&E department.
Must be willing to travel between sites serving patients of LUHFT as required.
To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
To formulate plans for, and to implement, psychological interventions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence of efficacy
To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options.
To address the needs of carers as appropriate.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for psychological treatment and discharge, communicating and liaising with referrers and others regularly.
To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
To ensure that all members of the clinical teams have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
To undertake and advise on risk assessment and risk management.
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans.
To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical teams .
To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of the patient group to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
To constribute to planning, developing and coordinating psychology services in A&E.
To offer consultation, training and guidance on psychological aspects of care to staff working within A&E.
To work directly with patients identified as appropriate for the service.
To offer focused staff support where appropriate.
To supervise directly the clinical work of relevant junior staff.
To contribute to representation of psychology on relevant local bodies.
To contribute a psychological perspective to multidisciplinary and multi-agency planning and development .
To contribute advice to Trusts on the systematic governance of psychology practice for patients of the service.
In the belief that the service will have much to learn from and contribute to the development of services nationally, the psychologist will be encouraged to develop and maintain network links with colleagues working in similar settings across the UK.
To provide clinical and professional supervision to psychologists working in the service where appropriate.
To provide specialist clinical placements for trainee clinical, health or counselling psychologists and other psychological practitioners as appropriate, ensuring that they acquire the necessary clinical and research skills to doctoral level where appropriate, and competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological practice, and contributing to the assessment and evaluation of those competencies.
To provide specialist advice, consultation and training and (where agreed locally) clinical supervision to non-psychologists in the trusts for their provision of psychological support and approaches.
To contribute to pre- and post-qualification courses for clinical, health or counselling psychology as appropriate.
To continue to develop expertise in the area of professional pre and post-qualification training and clinical supervision.
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Dec 2025