Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust


Company:	South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust
Salary:	£66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, SW17 0YF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	27 Aug 2026
Closing date:	26 Sept 2026

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Summary

We are excited to offer a psychologist post to work on our adult acute psychiatric wards. The post will join a team of 7 qualified psychologists and 5 assistant psychologists providing input to 10 wards.

The job involves providing psychological input to the ward multi-disciplinry team to help to understand services users and to plan their treatment. There will be direct work with individual, families and groups, as well as indirect work supporting our colleagues and service development work aimed at making our wards more therapeutic.

The post is established at band 8a, however they can be taken as band 7 preceptorship posts with a pathway to transition to 8a after a minimum of 18 months.

This post will be spread across two wards at Springfield Hospital and an assistant psychologist is attached to the post..

To provide a qualified highly specialist clinical psychology or counselling psychologyinputto service users on a mixed gender psychiatric ward, providinghighly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the acute and urgent care pathway and ward policies and procedures.

To support and enhance the work of the multi-disciplinary team by providing advice, consultation, training and supervision on service users’ psychological care to other members of the team, including facilitating or supervising the facilitation of reflective practice groups. To lead on the implementation of trauma informed approaches to care across two admission wards.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service and participate in service-related quality improvement and innovation projects.

To take professional responsibility forattached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role only), assistants and/or graduate psychologists

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together.We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

· Regular contribution to daily MDT meetings to plan patient care

· Joining MDT for individual patient reviews to ensure that psychological aspects of their difficulties and care planning are considered

· Direct sessions on the ward including individual patient assessment, formulation and treatment, as well as group and family sessions.

· Indirect input to MDT to support staff in day-to-day management of patients.

· Focus on service users who require one-to-one observations or seclusion to identify a pathway to reduce need for restriction.

· Provision of regular reflective practice.

Other Duties include:

· Regular contribution to various aspects of service improvement for ward one.

· Provision of supervision to other qualified psychology staff working on acute wards.

Contribution to wider service planning and improvement for the adult inpatient services

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This advert closes on Thursday 10 Sep 2026

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