Consultant Practitioner Psychologist, Major Trauma Psychology LeadinLondoninLondonPUBLISHED MON 14 APR 2025

Barts Health NHS Trust aims to be renowned for excellence, innovation and providing safe, compassionate care. Exemplary, since 2023, the Royal London Hospital (RLH) Major Trauma Centre (MTC) has formally provided integrated physical and psychological care, within the Pan-London Major Trauma Psychology Network. This is supported by NHS London’s Violence Reduction Programme, so is deservedly high profile.

The post holder will have a pivotal role in leading on this transformation agenda in the delivery of a comprehensive, integrated model of care for all trauma patients (children and adults) ensuring equity of integrated, high quality physical and psychological trauma care in London’s MTCs. This approach can be stepped up when a major incident occurs.

The focus will be on leading the implementation and maintenance of this model within Barts Health NHS Trust, putting patients at the heart of this transformation, and also collaborating across the London MTC system to establish system-wide governance and communication. Evidence gathering, evaluation and broadcasting are key, to enable discussion with local and national commissioners around implementation potential.

As well as keeping pace with providing inpatient RLH MTC psychological care, the service follows up out-patients and also provides consultation, in multiple forms, to the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues linked with the RLH MTC, whilst promoting staff wellbeing.

• To lead and manage the development, delivery and systematic evaluation of the Major Trauma Psychological Integrated Model of Care at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, in collaboration with the pan-London model leadership.
• To provide clinical and operational leadership, line management, and professional line management to Practitioner Psychologists in the RLH MTC, as well as others such Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists.
• To lead in the provision of consultation, training and clinical supervision to colleagues involved in the Major Trauma Psychological Integrated Model of Care at the Royal London Hospital, including internal and external agencies and non-clinical colleagues.
• To lead on the initial local psychological response to major incidents that provide proactive support to patients, bereaved, staff and contribute to the development of longer-term plans.
• To evaluate the model in order that a thorough feasibility assessment of sustainability can be achieved and to share these findings.
  
  

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Felicity Callow Job title: Service Delivery Manager Email address: