Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in Paediatric Long-Covid
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/17/2025
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Description
This is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner psychologist, to join our multidisciplinary team in Paediatric Long-Covid (0.5WTE, band 8b). the post is fixed term until end of March 2026.
The long covid service delivers multidisciplinary consultation (with external agencies), assessment, and brief treatment for children and young people with post-covid presentations.
The post holder will work as part of the team, comprised of paediatricians, child and adolescent psychiatry, and AHP team members, to develop and deliver high quality clinical care. They will collaborate in the management of patients from referral, triage, assessment and intervention as appropriate. This post includes internal and external liaison with senior professionals and management so excellent communication skills are of benefit.
In addition to direct clinical work, the post holder will be responsible for the collation and management of outcome data, so an interest and experience in service development and Quality Improvement will be an asset.
The post holder will join a dynamic group of practitioner psychologists within Paediatric Psychology, at Evelina London. This role will include leadership responsibilities, delivering line management and supervision as required for other clinicians within the service.
Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings across our diverse services. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks across the South East and nationally. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We have around 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Barkley Job title: Lead for Paediatric Psychological Professionals Email address: [email protected]
The long covid service delivers multidisciplinary consultation (with external agencies), assessment, and brief treatment for children and young people with post-covid presentations.
The post holder will work as part of the team, comprised of paediatricians, child and adolescent psychiatry, and AHP team members, to develop and deliver high quality clinical care. They will collaborate in the management of patients from referral, triage, assessment and intervention as appropriate. This post includes internal and external liaison with senior professionals and management so excellent communication skills are of benefit.
In addition to direct clinical work, the post holder will be responsible for the collation and management of outcome data, so an interest and experience in service development and Quality Improvement will be an asset.
The post holder will join a dynamic group of practitioner psychologists within Paediatric Psychology, at Evelina London. This role will include leadership responsibilities, delivering line management and supervision as required for other clinicians within the service.
Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings across our diverse services. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks across the South East and nationally. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We have around 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Barkley Job title: Lead for Paediatric Psychological Professionals Email address: [email protected]
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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