Assistant Psychologist/Psychological Well-being Practitioner


Company:	st georges nhs trust
Salary:	per annum Inc inner london HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Merton, SM4 5DX
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Jul 2026
Closing date:	5 Aug 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large and dynamic Department of Psychological Professions to provide neurorehabilitation services within Merton Community Neurorehabilitation Team (CNRT). The main office is based in Merton Civic Centre but the postholder will be required to travel to see patients across the whole Merton Borough.

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Psychologist who has previous experience working in neurorehabilitation services and/or with a background as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) to join Merton Community Neurorehabilitation Team (MCNRT), which is part of St Georges' University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will be responsible for providing neuropsychology input to adults with neurological conditions (involving their families/close others where applicable) under the supervision of qualified clinical neuropsychologists.

Ideally the successful candidate will have experience of working with adults / older adults with common mental health and neurological problems and will have completed PWP training.

The post holder may be required to rotate between the different services in order to gain skills in all aspects of applied neuropsychology. Therefore the post holder must also be prepared to work at different sites within St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Central London Community Health South West Division.

The St George’s Department of Psychological Professions (DoPP) is well-established. You will be joining a lively team of over 70 clinical, neuro, and health psychologists, and psychology assistants, with ready access to specialist neuropsychology supervision. Many of our assistant psychologists successfully gain places on Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses.

St George's, Epsom and St Helier's Hospitals (GESH) is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

GESH main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting is one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the City at St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, GESH provides a wide variety of specialist care and a range of community services to patients of all ages.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

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This advert closes on Monday 13 Jul 2026

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