Clinical Psychologist

Go back Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 02 February 2026

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Paediatric Clinical Health Psychology team as a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist for 26 hours a week. We are looking to recruit someone with an interest in working with children, young people and families and experience ideally in health settings. We are a large team, and we are keen to promote personal and professional development and there are lots of opportunities for CPD, training and service development within the role.

This post involves supporting children, young people and their families through specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention, indirect work including providing consultation, supervision and training to multi-disciplinary staff, and utilising research skills for audit, policy, and service development.

This is a fixed term post for 12 months

• To enhance psychologically informed care through the direct delivery of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence based psychological interventions for children and young people with physical health difficulties and their families, and indirectly through providing interventions such as teaching, training and consultation with teams and non-psychologically trained practitioners, and service development.
• The service will be provided across a number of bases in the acute and community setting as well as some home working. The main base for the service is at Torbay Hospital. We operate a Hybrid-Model of working which involves a combination of remote and physical face-to-face interactions.
• To work autonomously, within the Trust's and the HCPC's and the BPS's professional guidelines, as well as liaise and work closely with paediatric colleagues and other staff who work internal and external to the Trust and who provide services to children, young people and their carers and families.

Why Work With Us

We are a progressive service and are passionate about the uniqueness of Clinical Health Psychology. You will work within the Paediatric Clinical Health Psychology team as part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) service. We have a mix of Psychological professions in the team and welcome individuals who are keen to embrace the challenges and strengths that this brings to our working and professional identity.

We pride ourselves on our flexibility of working practices and our family first approach to working which allow people to work hard while maintaining healthy boundaries.

As a Trust we have introduced agile working and as a Directorate we are committed to supporting our teams and colleagues in adopting this approach. The team have been trained in ACT and EMDR and there is a strong commitment to both evidence and practice based short-term interventions.

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

• Eligibility for BPS Chartered Clinical Psychologist status
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• Demonstrate post qualification experience of working as a clinical / counselling / health psychologist with children and families where there are psychological and physical health concerns
• Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level
• Additional specialist training in assessment and intervention with children and young people with chronic health conditions such as diabetes
• Experience of working within an Acute hospital setting

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.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust