Advert details:
Salary: Band 8A (£65,125 - £70,303)
Job closing date: 29/11/2026
Job Type: Other Therapeutic
Location: Royal Hospital for Children
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 36
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Department: Paediatric Clinical Psychology SCS In-Reach

Applications are invited for a 1.0wte Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to work in our busy, innovative, friendly and supportive team in Paediatric Psychology based at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. This is a permanent post and an exciting opportunity for candidates with a passion for working with children and young people with physical health conditions in a busy hospital environment.

We would consider applications for part-time hours. We welcome applications from newly qualifying psychologists.

The post will be based at the Royal Hospital for Children on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus, Glasgow. The RHC is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK and is the regional and national centre for several medical specialties for children and young people across Scotland. Psychologists are part of a large supportive psychology team structure of around 20 Psychologists with many opportunities for collaborative working and service development.

Psychologists work closely as embedded members of medical specialty teams and there is opportunity to work in a variety of medical specialties. The successful candidate will work with both outpatients and inpatients from both the multi-specialty waiting list and from one or 2 specific medical specialties – these specialties are to be confirmed but are likely to include Paediatric Haematology/Oncology and Paediatric Respiratory.

In addition to direct clinical work, the successful applicant will support multidisciplinary clinical colleagues across the whole hospital through consultation on psychologically informed care; contributing to MDT and ward meetings; and teaching and training activities including delivery of the NHS Education for Scotland TIPS-PH (Training in Psychological Skills – Paediatric Healthcare) modules. There are also likely to be opportunities for research and audit as a field supervisor for DClinPsy research projects.

Paediatric Psychology work closely with the other acute mental health/psychology teams within the hospital (Paediatric Liaison Psychiatry; Paediatric Neuropsychology; and Maternity and Neonatal Psychological Interventions). These posts form part of a network of over 100 psychologists in Specialist Children’s Services in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and a much larger psychology workforce across the care groups in the health board. The service has strong links with both the Glasgow University Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology and the Edinburgh University MSc course in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People and the successful candidate will be expected to provide supervision to both doctoral and MSc trainees.

You must have a Doctoral level of qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology and be registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) to be eligible to apply for this post. You will be expected to have completed (or we will support completion of) Supervision training.

For an informal discussion please contact: Dr Janie Donnan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Telephone: 0141 451 6499 email: Janie.donnan@nhs.scot

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