Job summary
- Main area
- Virtual Enhanced Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 188-SCL011126
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Southampton
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 - Per Annum, Pro Rata
- Closing
- 16/11/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/11/2026
Employer heading
Applied Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Adult Psychology service working within University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust (UHS) which is a provider of regional and tertiary acute physical care.
We are currently recruiting to a role working within the MESH Vaginal Removal Service (0.5wte). This is an established and valued role and you will work with senior leads and a national network to work alongside our MDT colleagues and in partnership with patients to provide psychologically informed services. We promote flexible working
Balancing wellbeing with work demands and developing your professional skills are highly valued within the UHS Adult Psychology team. We offer many opportunities to develop your interest in therapeutic approaches through informal networking, facilitated reflective practice, education days and specialist supervision or discussion groups. Currently we have active interests in Systemic, Acceptance and Commitment, and EMDR but facilitate learning in other approaches.
UHS Adult Psychology are active in local and national specialist psychology groups, are developing a research strategy and have close links with Southampton University Clinical and Health Psychology courses
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 30% lower than London and 17 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
We believe that using technology wisely shows strong time management and commitment to innovation. However, personalising your recruitment application to highlight your unique skills and experiences is crucial. Relying too heavily on generic, AI-generated content instead of drawing from your own strengths and accomplishments may lead to your application being rejected if multiple candidates present identical or similar information.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In this role, your key responsibilities will include working with the clinical teams to provide a psychological service for the team, patients, and families. You will offer assessment and therapeutic interventions to patients and supervision, consultation, and training to medical teams. You will work to embed psychological principals within patient care and link to national specialist groups within clinical health psychology
Experience in working in an acute physical health setting and with evidence-based approaches to managing trauma and working with pain management is beneficial.
This post may be appropriate for preceptorship and newly qualified psychologist depending on pre-qualification experience.
Within all posts you will connect to the wider UHS Adult Psychology team and other link with Child Psychology, Neuro Psychology, Mental Health Liaison and wider psychological services to develop pathways around patient care.
We have generic job descriptions to assist career development and gaining experience. We encourage applicants to contact us to discuss posts and to carefully consider the person specification in their application.
We would be very happy to answer any of your questions.
If you would like to find out more information this post, please contact Dr Alison Pearce (Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist) and Dr Beth George (Clinical Psychologist) by email [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy
Experience needed – general or specific
Essential criteria
- In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of service development and working with teams
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working within a Physical Health Setting and in particular the area that the job is focused on
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with trauma using evidenced based approaches
- Experience of working within the NHS as an Applied Psychologist
- Experience of neuropsychological and psychometric Assessment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Beth George,
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Beth George, Principal Clinical Psychologist or Dr Alison Pearce, Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist UHS Adults at [email protected]
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