Principal Clinical Psychologist - Paediatrics

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Principal Clinical Psychologist - Paediatrics

The closing date is 17 February 2026

Are you an experienced and passionate psychologist looking for your next challenge? Our Children's Outpatient Department is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead psychological care within our Paediatric Diabetes Service and provide support to our small, dedicated team of psychologists.

You will join a motivated, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team of consultants, nurses, AHPs, and administrative staff who are committed to delivering outstanding care for children and young people. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and develop innovative psychological services, building on the excellent work already in place.

What we're looking for:

• A highly skilled psychologist with expertise in paediatrics and a strong interest in diabetes care.
• A collaborative leader who can inspire and support colleagues across the service.
• Someone with passion, creativity, and enthusiasm to drive service development and improve patient experience.

Main duties of the job

Lead Specialist Clinical Care

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children and young people living with diabetes.
• Work closely with families, carers, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure compassionate, tailored, evidence based care.

Supervision, Training & MDT Support

• Offer expert consultation, teaching and reflective practice to the Paediatric Diabetes MDT.
• Help embed psychological thinking across the service, enhancing staff confidence and supporting trauma informed, family centred practice.

Leadership & Line Management

• Line manage and clinically supervise psychologists within our Paediatric Psychology Department (currently three colleagues working across NICU, Paediatric Oncology, General Paediatrics and Tuberous Sclerosis).
• Provide supervision to trainee clinical psychologists and assistant psychologists.

Service Development & Innovation

• Drive forward improvements in how paediatric psychological care is organised and delivered.
• Develop sustainable referral pathways, preventative models, and psychologically informed departmental policies.
• Contribute to service evaluation, quality improvement and ongoing strategic development.

About us

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working in the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Job description

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Registered with the Health and Care Professional Council (HPCP).
• Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent.
• Formal training in supervision skills.

Desirable

• BABCP accredited

Knowledge and experience Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a clinical psychologist for a minimum of 4 years with at least two years at a highly specialist level
• Extensive experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings including an acute hospital, as an out patient and in the community
• Liaison work with other professionals and agencies.
• Experience of providing supervision and consultation to other professionals/agencies and non professional groups.
• Experience of supervising trainee clinical psychologists

Desirable

• Experience of conducting debriefs to staff after a distressing incident.
• Experience of Cognitive and neuropsychological assessments.
• Experience of neurodevelopmental conditions e.g. Autism/ADHD

Specialised knowledge Essential

• Specialist psychological assessment and formulation skills and knowledge.
• Expert on analysis and differential Formulation of highly complex case information.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and policies.
• Knowledge of legislation in respect of this particular client group.
• Specialist knowledge of standardized assessments and psychometrics appropriate to children and young people with chronic health conditions.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details Employer name

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal United Hospitals Foundation Trust Bath

Combe Park

Bath

BA1 3NG

Employer's website

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part time

Reference number

745

Job locations

Royal United Hospitals Foundation Trust Bath