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Band 8a Lead Psychologist
The closing date is 02 November 2025
Lead Psychologist - Occupational Health Psychology Service
Are you ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of NHS staff? We are looking for an experienced and motivated Lead Psychologist to join our fast-growing Occupational Health Psychology Service. This is a unique opportunity to provide individual psychological therapy to hospital staff, work directly with teams to support their wellbeing, and play a key role in shaping and delivering the overall strategy of our service. You’ll be part of an innovative, supportive team committed to improving the psychological health of our NHS Trust workforce.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will achieve this by providing a qualified psychological service to staff, and advice and guidance to line managers. To provide specialist psychological assessment and individual therapy and support as needed. To offer supervision, teaching, training, and consultation on staff psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues as appropriate.
The post holder should demonstrate the ability to work flexibly and autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the OH team's policies and procedures. To utilise evidence-based outcome measures and treatment approaches to ensure a consistent and high level of quality is provided to the OH. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development, service evaluation and research within the area served by the team/service.
Joining and attending relevant professional and clinically relevant meetings, such as the BPS Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Society of Occupational Medicine is encouraged.
About us
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries – live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted-accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Sarah Wood, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 4188. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Doctoral Level or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC, or equivalent professional training and accreditation in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist or equivalent professional accreditation (eg UKCP, BACP, BABCP) as a psychological therapist
* Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills such as CBT, EMDR, family inventions
Experience
* Proven post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the NHS
* Knowledge of working within preventative healthcare
* Experience of delivering group/ psychoeducation
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.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
£36,978 to £41,173 a year per annum inclusive
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