Principal Clinical Psychologist | Barts Health NHS Trust


Company:	Barts Health NHS Trust
Salary:	£66,274 - £73,496 per annum inc
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, E1 1FR
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	3 Jul 2026
Closing date:	6 Aug 2026

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Summary

Applications are invited to join the Psychology Service in Infection & Immunity at Barts Health NHS Trust.

We would like to recruit an experienced HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist who has specialist interests and skills in psychology as applied to HIV and sexual health. The primary purpose of this post is to provide psychological support to patients from our three HIV clinics across East London. The post also involves working in our sexual health and psychosexual services, which are based in Whitechapel and Stratford, with a focus on providing support to our Female Sexual Wellbeing Clinics.

This work will largely take place at Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. Some amount of remote working will be possible, but most of the work will be patient-facing.

The Psychology Service enjoys good close working relationships with the multi-disciplinary teams in Infection & Immunity. We are an energetic and supportive team offering excellent professional support, supervision and CPD. There is a wealth of specialist clinical expertise, and the service has an active audit, research and teaching programme. There are also close links with North London Clinical Psychology training courses and Queen Mary Medical School.

We will be open to applications from those who might be open to job sharing.

This post involves the provision of specialist psychological support to patients from Infection & Immunity at Barts Health from across East London. This work will involve both HIV and sexual health services at Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. Clinical provision will consist of psychological assessments and psychological therapy, in addition to psycho-educational workshops. Some amount of remote working will be expected, as well as onsite patient-facing work at Royal London Hospital.

The primary purpose of this post is to provide psychological support to patients from our three HIV clinics across the Trust. However, the post also involves working in our sexual health and psychosexual services.

The post holder will also contribute to our multi-disciplinary staff teaching programme to promote psychosocial knowledge and skills in responding to the psychosocial needs of our service users. The post holder will also provide supervision to clinical psychology doctorate trainees and or psychosexual therapy trainees.

The post holder will also contribute to audit, research and service development. The post holder will further the practice of psychosexual counselling, by assisting in service development, audit/evaluation and clinical governance.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

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.

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 particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jul 2026

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