Paediatric Clinical Psychologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Basingstoke, RG24 9NA
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	12 Aug 2026
Closing date:	23 Aug 2026

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Summary

JOB PURPOSE To provide a high-quality specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and Trust care pathways. Offering interventions in a range of formats; individual, family and groups. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues. To analyse and interpret highly complex assessment findings, feedback assessment findings to children, young people and their families, give psychological recommendations to parents/carers and other professionals, formulate and implement formal clinical recommendations and treatment interventions and complete professional reports. This will involve regularly communicating highly complex and sensitive information. To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate. To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists. To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about clinical psychology issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate.

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