Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

We are excited to offer two posts for psychologists to work on our adult acute psychiatric wards. One of these is part of new investment as our organisation is enhancing the therapeutic environment and interventions on our wards where some wards will benefit from having full time qualified psychology input for the first time.

The job involves a diverse range of tasks, including direct assessment and intervention, as well as many opportunities for indirect contributions to recovery, via training staff, reflective practice and service development.

The posts established as 8a posts, however they can be taken as band 7 preceptorship posts with a pathway to transition to 8a after a minimum of 18 months. One post is shared across two mixed 18-bed acute wards. The other post covers only one ward, a single-sex, 18-bed unit.

You will benefit from support from an assistant psychologist and be part of a team of 8 qualified and 5 assistant psychologists working in the Adult Inpatient Psychology Service.

service users on a mixed gender psychiatric ward, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the acute and urgent care pathway and ward policies and procedures.

To support and enhance the work of the multi-disciplinary team by providing advice, consultation, training and supervision on service users’ psychological care to other members of the team, including facilitating or supervising the facilitation of reflective practice groups. To lead on the

implementation of trauma informed approaches to care across two admission wards.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service and participate in service-related quality improvement and innovation

projects.

To take professional responsibility for attached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role

only), assistants and/or graduate psychologists

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together.We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our location

This post will be based at Springfield Hospital

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

· Regular contribution to daily MDT meetings to plan patient care

· Joining MDT for individual patient reviews to ensure that psychological aspects of their difficulties and care planning are considered

· Direct sessions on the ward including individual patient assessment, formulation and treatment, as well as group and family sessions.

· Indirect input to MDT to support staff in day-to-day management of patients.

· Focus on service users who require one-to-one observations or seclusion to identify a pathway to reduce need for restriction.

· Provision of regular reflective practice.

· Regular contribution to various aspects of service improvement for ward one.

· Provision of supervision to other qualified psychology staff working on acute wards.

· Contribution to wider service planning and improvement for the adult inpatient services.

This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Jun 2026