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Main area
Psychology
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (n/a)
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-1375
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore, Middlesex
Salary
£53,751 - £60,651 pa a inc HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/01/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Clinical / Counselling / Health Psychologist

Band 7

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

Job Title: Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist

Salary: Band 7, 0.8 w.t.e / 30 hours per week

Location: Clinical Health Psychology Department, RNOH, Stanmore, London, HA7 4LP

  1. Under supervision of a Senior  Psychologist, to provide a qualified psychology service to inpatients and outpatients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
  2. To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention to both inpatients and outpatients of the RNOH and particularly those with chronic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions who receive care from our pain management and rheumatological teams.  
  3. To provide regular clinical supervision for pre-qualification psychology staff and engage in regular peer supervision with colleagues.
  4. To offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to members of the multidisciplinary team and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
  5. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service and to take the lead for specific areas of service development.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed individual to work in the Clinical Health Psychology department, based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.  This role includes outpatient psychological assessment and therapy and contributing towards the psychological component of our inpatient pain management programmes.

We are looking to recruit an HCPC-registered, clinical/health/counselling psychologist ideally with training or post-training experience within the area of physical health.

This post involves working with people with chronic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions and also providing advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to members of the multidisciplinary team.

The Clinical Health Psychology department currently consists of two full-time and five part-time members of staff with backgrounds in Clinical, Health and Counselling Psychology. 

We offer a supportive and friendly environment and are able to provide excellent opportunities for CPD, supervision and peer supervision, and teaching and training of healthcare professionals aimed at developing innovative services of supporting health-related behaviour change

Working for our organisation

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK, and is regarded as a leader in the field of orthopaedics both in the UK and world-wide. 

The RNOH provides a comprehensive range of neuro-musculoskeletal health care, ranging from acute spinal injury or complex bone tumour to orthopaedic medicine and specialist rehabilitation for chronic pain sufferers. This broad range of services is unique within the NHS.

As a national centre of excellence, the RNOH treats patients from across the country, many of whom have been referred by other hospital consultants for second opinions or for treatment of complex or rare conditions.

Patients benefit from a team of highly specialised consultants, many of whom are nationally and internationally recognised for their expertise and experience. Consultants are supported in their work by nurses, therapists and other specialist clinical staff who are trained experts in their particular fields of orthopaedic care.

The RNOH plays a major role in teaching, with 20% of all UK orthopaedic surgeons receive training here. Our teaching and clinical effectiveness are enhanced by our work in research and development and academic links with University College, London. Research departments at Stanmore include the Institute of Orthopaedics, the Centre for Disability Research and Innovation, the Institute of Human Performance and the Centre for Biomedical Engineering.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the psychology service and attending our inpatient pain management and rehabilitation programmes. To use, interpret and integrate complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care in order to reach a psychological formulation of a patient’s difficulties.
  2. To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s psychological distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
  3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, both individually and in conjunction with members of the multidisciplinary team, for individuals and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
  4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
  5. In common with all psychologists, to receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

Person specification

Training & Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology leading to registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
  • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
  • Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of psychological work with patients with physical health problems.
  • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
  • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
  • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/health/counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical/health/counselling psychology.
  • Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with physical health problems.
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in physical health settings
  • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
  • An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with chronic pain conditions.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to engage people in psychological work who are experiencing complex biopsychosocial problems

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkBronze Trailblazer by Race Equality MattersDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldAccredited Menopause Friendly EmployerRoyal College of Anaesthetists AccreditedCareLeaver CovenantThe Employer Standards provide a clear framework to businesses of all shapes and sizes to maximise the impact of employer engagement with young people, ensuring mutual value and long-term business successSilver membership of the 5% Club

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Andrew Lucas
Job title
Consultant Lead Health Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 947 0570
Additional information

Alternatively please contact: 

Mina Abedian - [email protected]  

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