Senior Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 31 July 2026
We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist with experience of working in physical healthcare to join our well‑established, supportive and welcoming Clinical Health Psychology Service. We have good resources for CPD and strong links to Liverpool University, offering opportunities to get involved in teaching, research and trainee placements.
Liverpool is a great place to live, with fantastic energy and humour, a vibrant cultural life and easy access to the mountains and the sea. We can also offer beautiful architecture, lots of open space, good schools and a lower than average cost of living.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was formed to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Job responsibilities
Within this role, you will provide psychological service to patients following stroke across inpatient and outpatient services, as well as maintaining a small provision into A&E. You will work directly with patients on adjustment post‑stroke, assessment of cognition and supporting rehabilitation, and indirectly with the stroke‑specialist multidisciplinary team. You will provide education, training and consultation, and contribute to the evaluation and development of the service. You will also have the opportunity to supervise junior psychology colleagues, with support from senior colleagues and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Qualifications
- Satisfactory completion of postgraduate doctoral level training in psychology (or its equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Specialist training or demonstrable expertise in one or more areas of research methodology.
Experience
- Post‑qualification experience of working as a practitioner psychologist within the NHS.
- Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist in a physical health setting.
- Working with a wide variety of client groups across the adult life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professional working autonomously and within the context of a multi‑disciplinary care plan.
- Teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Representing the profession in local policy or planning forums.
- Experience in service development and/or innovation.
- Membership of national professional or inter‑professional groups.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of research in physical health settings.
- Post‑qualification experience of research in physical health setting.
- Experience of working in a clinical research environment.
- Post‑qualification experience of research.
Knowledge
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of psychology in the field of physical health, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post‑qualification study, training and/or supervised experience.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies.
- Specialist clinical knowledge of psychology in the field of physical health, consistent with previous experience in this setting.
- Ability to plan, organise and provide teaching and training on relevant psychological topics, using a variety of complex multi‑media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and DoH policy and implementation guidelines, and of the implications of such documentation for clinical practice and professional management in relation to health care in general and cancer services in particular.
- Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the British Psychological Society.
- Familiarity with the ethical and professional standards expected of Clinical Psychologists as laid down in the BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct (2009) and the BPS Practice Guidelines (2017).
- Awareness and thorough understanding of the political, social and economic policy framework within which health and mental health services are delivered and an ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of clinical, health and counselling psychology within this context.
- Publication in peer‑reviewed clinical or service‑related journals.
- Specialist knowledge of the specialist area.
Skills
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to communicate empathically, sensitively and effectively to convey clinical and condition‑related information to patients, their families, carers and professional colleagues that is technically complex, sensitive or potentially distressing.
- Ability to handle emotionally charged and complex information in ways that address and overcome psychological resistance, hostility, antagonism and barriers to understanding arising from cognitive, cultural or linguistic factors.
- Ability to show respect for patients and practitioners, and to build and sustain effective working relationships.
- A commitment to the integration of research and clinical services including the evaluation of services for both multi‑professional and uni‑professional audit, and a will to continue developing expertise in the service area.
- Resourcefulness and ability to work independently at a high level and as part of a team and to deliver team and organisational objectives.
- Adaptable and able to work flexibly when required (particularly in the light of changing service priorities).
- Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Demonstrable leadership in relation to psychology and other professions.
- Computing skills: data processing, word‑processing, literature searching consistent with doctoral training and the need for data‑analysis to support audit and research.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Evidence of management skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£57,528 to £64,750 per annum, pro rata
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