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Principal Clinical Psychologist
Closing date 31 May 2026
We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a motivated Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our specialist Adult Audiovestibular Clinical Psychology Service at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, UCLH. The post sits within a highly respected specialist service in one of the UK’s leading NHS trusts, offering a varied clinical caseload, flexible working, and excellent opportunities for professional development. The role involves working with adults presenting with tinnitus, dizziness, hearing loss, hyperacusis, misophonia, and related ENT and sleep difficulties, offering the chance to develop expertise across a broad and interesting range of presentations. The post combines direct clinical work with opportunities for supervision, service development, teaching and research within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. As this is a highly specialised field, prior experience in audiovestibular psychology is not expected. We would particularly welcome applications from psychologists with relevant experience in clinical health psychology or other adult services working with complex physical health presentations. The role offers a high degree of flexibility, with limited on‑site working currently expected.
Main duties
This is a Band 8a Principal Clinical Psychologist post (0.45 WTE / 16.9 hours per week) within the Adult Audiovestibular Clinical Psychology Service at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, UCLH. The post combines direct clinical work with supervision, teaching, service development, audit and research in a flexible and varied specialist clinical health setting.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
- Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) and registration with the Health Professions Council
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts e.g. working with clients from different cultural backgrounds.
- Proven and substantial track record of service design, development and audit.
- Experience in preparing work for dissemination (e.g. paper publications, conference poster presentation, oral conference presentation)
- Evidence of continuing professional development in accordance with professional guidelines.
- Experience of teaching and training non‑psychologists
- Evidence of experience of implementing innovative practice and facilitating change management
- Completion of further post‑doctoral post‑qualification training/professional development
- Formal post‑doctoral training in a model of psychological theory (e.g. CBT, systemic)
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with people with highly complex presentations.
- Experience of working in clinical health psychology or related adult physical health settings, and of delivering evidence‑based group and individual psychological interventions.
- Substantial experience of working in outpatient settings with patients with complex medical problems, particularly persistent symptoms, adjustment difficulties, or ENT‑related and other physical health presentations.
- Experience of teaching, training and clinical supervision of other psychologists and/or non‑psychologists.
- Experience of working in clinical health psychology or related adult services.
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work in partnership at all levels both within the organisation and with key stakeholders and groups across professional and inter‑agency boundaries.
- Leadership skills capable of establishing direction & purpose and leading others within a complex organisational structure.
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.
Address
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
£66,274 to £73,496 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part‑time
Reference number
309‑UCLH‑7780‑A
Job locations
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
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