Applied Practitioner Psychologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£57,528 to £64,750 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Southampton, SO16 6YD
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Nov 2026
Closing date:	16 Nov 2026

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Summary

In this role, your key responsibilities will include working with the clinical teams to provide a psychological service for the team, patients, and families. You will offer assessment and therapeutic interventions to patients and supervision, consultation, and training to medical teams. You will work to embed psychological principals within patient care and link to national specialist groups within clinical health psychology Experience in working in an acute physical health setting and with evidence-based approaches to managing trauma and working with pain management is beneficial. This post may be appropriate for preceptorship and newly qualified psychologist depending on pre-qualification experience. Within all posts you will connect to the wider UHS Adult Psychology team and other link with Child Psychology, Neuro Psychology, Mental Health Liaison and wider psychological services to develop pathways around patient care. We have generic job descriptions to assist career development and gaining experience. We encourage applicants to contact us to discuss posts and to carefully consider the person specification in their application. We would be very happy to answer any of your questions. If you would like to find out more information this post, please contact Dr Alison Pearce (Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist)and Dr Beth George (Clinical Psychologist) by email adultpsychadmin@uhs.nhs.uk

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