Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7754034-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Monkmoor Campus
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £47,810 - £62,682 We will consider Band 7 to B8a Preceptorship
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/02/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit Band 8a Clinical Psychologists to work in our expanding Shropshire Paediatric Psychology Service, primarily within epilepsy and general paediatrics.
We would consider offering a preceptorship pathway from Agenda for Change Band 7 to 8a, on completion of the required competencies.
The Paediatric Psychology Service provides targeted input into several multi-disciplinary teams across Shropshire and works closely with our local children’s community nursing team. We are a welcoming, well-established team of Psychologists, with a shared passion for continuously improving and promoting positive outcomes for children and young people with physical health conditions. This role is well supported by professional leadership structures. The post holders will work closely alongside other qualified Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists, with dedicated admin embedded in the service.
There will be regular opportunities for CPD, paediatric peer supervision, service development and collaborating with psychology colleagues across our Integrated Care System.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role involve providing evidence-based, psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with children and their families, aimed at reducing distress and promoting positive health and wellbeing outcomes.
The role will also involve working indirectly with healthcare colleagues, sharing psychological skills and approaches and promoting psychologically informed care, through supervision, consultation and multi-disciplinary team working.
There will be scope to provide supervision and contribute to service audit, evaluation and development projects within the role.
The successful applicant will be a compassionate and committed team worker, with previous experience within paediatric psychology settings and a strong passion for innovative working to make a positive difference to the lives of children and families in this setting. Skills in making psychological theory and approaches accessible to colleagues in other disciplines will be key to this role. This post is advertised at a time of real opportunity for introducing and embedding psychological practice in physical healthcare settings and extending the reach of the service.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
The Paediatric Psychology Service sits within the organisation's children and families service delivery group.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications attached for further information on the role - both 8a and band 7 given the opportunity for a preceptorship post.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) providing eligibility for registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Evidence of further post qualification training /short courses relevant to children/young people’s mental health and/or paediatric psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development in line with the requirements of HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience 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, in-patient and residential care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Significant post qualification experience of working within Child Psychology settings with young people and their families
- Substantial experience of working clinically within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of supervision of pre-qualification psychologists or non-psychological professionals
- Experience of teaching/training with psychologists or non-psychological professionals
- Experience of audit/research/evaluation
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for a patient’s psychological care and treatment.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills and experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups using a variety of models.
- Well-developed skills in providing supervision to both psychological and non-psychological colleagues
- Advanced skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge and skills in teaching/training using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Other
Essential criteria
- Be able to meet the travel requirements of the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Camilla Johns
- Job title
- Professional Lead/Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 730138
- Additional information
Dr Gemma O'Leary, Principal Clinical Psychologist; [email protected]
Dr Eloise James-Gibbs, Principal Clinical Psychologist; [email protected]
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the service to discuss the role/arrange a visit.
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