Staff Psychologist for the Emergency Services Division inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED SUN 6 APR 2025

Are you a proactive, social and engaged Psychologist in need of a new challenge? We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist to join the UCLH Staff Psychology & Welfare Service (SPWS)and support The Emergency Services Division at UCLH. SPWS is well-established within the Trust and the post-holder will join a friendly multi-disciplinary team of clinical and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and mediators. This is an exciting and critically important time to work in this area as part of an extensive change / improvement programme across all services within the division. The post-holder will become a key member of these broader innovative projects including opportunities to work with teams and to help develop division-wide interventions, run groups, workshops and training programmes alongside a small individual triage & treatment caseload. The current post holder is taking a career break for 12 months from January 2025 and the successful candidate will be supported by the ESD leadership team and Workforce colleagues to take over the work they have undertaken and embed further support pathways, process and systems for staff to enable them to thrive at work.

This is a specialist role within the service that requires the post-holder to be confident to work independently within EDS and the multiple services and teams within it. The post holder will also be required to provide training and supervision for clinical staff. While there is some flexibility in the role to work remotely, the main responsibilities are covering onsite support provision within ESD and some of the the clinical areas of the different hospitals, and acting as part of our ward based surge response to support staff. Systemic training and trauma informed therapeutic skills will be crucial to the role’s work.

Supervision will be provided by an experienced Clinical Psychologist with line management by the Clinical Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

Candidates must have completed post-graduate level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence, and be registered as practitioner psychologists with the HCPC.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
  
  

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2and indirect emissions by 2040.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Lisa Monaghan Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: