Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21936
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Alexander Hospital
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that tools like AI are becoming part of everyday life and you may choose to use them when preparing your application. We welcome this, as long as what you submit reflects your own experience, skills and voice. AI can be helpful for structuring or refining your answers, but it should not replace your own examples or create content that isn’t based on your real experience.
Our recruitment process is designed to get to know you, and we’ll explore your examples further at interview, so it’s important your application genuinely represents what you bring. You can read more about using AI in applications and interviews on our recruitment process page.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and flexible band 7 Psychologist (0.5WTE) with some skills in and experience of working in paediatrics, to join the paediatric oncology psychology service at Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. We are wanting someone with well- developed general skills in working with children and families and multidisciplinary working. We are looking with someone with CBT or ACT skills, and knowledge of attachment and systemic based models who is keen to develop their skills in working within paediatric MDT settings.
The post holder will also be a member of the wider Paediatric Psychology Support Service (PPSS) at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital as well as Brighton & Hove Psychology team, which is a lively and active team of psychologists working within Specialist CAMHS, Learning Disability, Community Child Health and Neuro-developmental disorders, Social Services and Education.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be providing psychological support to children and young people aged 0-19 years and their families under the care of the paediatric oncology medical team at Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. There is an in and outpatient workload for patients on current treatment and their family members. It will involve direct assessment and intervention with individuals and families as well as facilitating group work with children and with parents. Specialist consultation and advice on patients’ psychological care will be provided regularly to medical colleagues on the oncology daycare ward and at psychosocial and multidisciplinary team meetings.
Working for our organisation
Working for your organisation
The team is involved in a number of innovative audit evaluation and research projects, as well as developing and delivering a number of groups and workshops.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post holder will work closely with the paediatric oncology psychology service to provide a specialist clinical psychology service to patients and their family members across the cancer pathway on active treatment. The post holder will be well integrated within the paediatric medical oncology team and be physically located on the oncology daycare ward for part of the role to provide consultation on the psychological care of patients and a responsive psychology service to oncology patients receiving treatment on daycare and as inpatients.
The post holder will be also a member of the wider Paediatric Psychological Support Service (PPSS) which includes psychologists working with the teams for Cystic Fybrosis, Long-Term medical conditions, diabetes and CFS/ME as well as those in the Function First team for medically unexplained physical symptom. The PPSS service offers a range of innovative interventions, including Forest School workshops, Mindfulness and ACT groups, EMDR and Tree of Life therapies, as well as being involved in a number of research projects.
Informal discussions and visits are encouraged.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HCPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation and treatment) with a wide variety of client 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, inpatient and residential care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
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
- Dr Alice Emond
- Job title
- Principal Psychologist Paediatric oncology
- Email address
- [email protected]
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