Job summary
- Main area
- Major Trauma Service
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 259-7390696RLH
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8a
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
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Job overview
Barts Health NHS Trust aims to be renowned for excellence, innovation and providing safe, compassionate care. Exemplary since 2023, the Royal London Hospital (RLH) Major Trauma Centre (MTC) has formally provided integrated physical and psychological care, within the Pan-London Major Trauma Psychology Network. This is supported by NHS London’s Violence Reduction Programme, so is deservedly high profile.
The post holder will have a key presence in the delivery of our comprehensive, integrated model of care for all trauma patients (children and adults) ensuring equity of integrated, high quality physical and psychological trauma care in London’s MTCs. This approach can be stepped up when a major incident occurs.
The service continues to implement and develop this model within Barts Health NHS Trust, putting patients at the heart of this transformation, and also collaborating across the London MTC system to establish system-wide governance and communication. Evidence gathering, evaluation and broadcasting are key, to enable discussion with local and national commissioners around implementation potential.
The team comprises Band 7, 8a and 8c Practitioner Psychologists, plus Assistants and Trainees, integrated within the RLH paediatric and adult workforce. Due to existing staffing, we are seeking applications from those with potential to focus on adults but the service does cover all ages.
Main duties of the job
• Responsible for providing a highly specialist, psychology input to the planning, development and delivery of the RLH MTC pathway for over eighteen-year-olds.
• Responsible for planning, developing and providing a psychology service supporting after-trauma care across the pathway, from the ward and into the community, both directly and indirectly, through staff and carer consultation.
• Teaching, training and supervision of nursing and other multi-disciplinary colleagues on psychological and/or neuropsychological theory and practice, as required.
• Implementation of the published guidance for major trauma, to maximise an embedded approach to team working, and other service delivery, based upon the evidence base and NHS guidelines.
• Providing clinical supervision to qualified, assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, as required.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS and HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant specialist training or qualifications in managing violence and aggression or post- trauma therapy such as EMDR.
- Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.
- Progressing towards or have achieved eligibility for the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists with the British Psychological Society.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed and substantial experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, including relevant experience in physical health settings since qualification.
- Experience of working with people who may be reluctant to engage with services, and the people and systems around them, including carers.
- Experience of working in a physical health setting, providing highly specialist health psychology assessment and treatment, with children and/or adults.
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in an acute healthcare setting, including close physical proximity to service-users who have recently been exposed to life-threatening levels of injury.
- Experience with people who may have experienced levels of intentional physical harm, to others or self.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals and colleagues.
- Ability to contain, assess and mediate in situations with service-users where they may be distressed and/or at risk to themselves and others.
- Ability to formulate complex clients’ presenting difficulties within a theoretical framework, to plan and deliver an appropriate specialist treatment intervention, and to evaluate the efficacy and outcome of treatment.
- Skills in selecting and applying psychometric tests.
- Doctoral level research skills and experience of both quantitative and qualitative research methods
Communication
Essential criteria
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Working to Professional Guidelines.
- Must be capable of autonomous and independent practice necessitating the adoption of responsibility for own work and interventions, and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in engaging those who may not be comfortable accessing services, due to systemic issues.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Felicity Callow
- Job title
- Service Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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