Job summary
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
Assistant Neuropsychologist
Full-time: 0.6 WTE Permanent
Band 8B
We are pleased to advertise a vacancy for a Senior Paediatric Neuropsychologist post in the Neuropsychology service at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The post would suit a highly motivated individual interested in neuropsychological assessment of children with neurological conditions.
Applicants should have extensive experience in Neuropsychology or related subject, good interpersonal and communication skills, and experience of management of staff. Prior experience of working with individuals with brain injury or neurological conditions is essential, particularly with epilepsy or neurovascular conditions. Ideally, we would welcome applications from QICN holders.
Main duties of the job
The service is involved in clinical research, and data management and research skills will also be valuable.
The post-holder will also be part of the wider Psychological & Mental Health Services in the Trust. There is regular formal supervision and informal support and excellent opportunities for professional development within the Trust.
Closing date is: November 26th 2025
Interviews will take place on: December 10th 2025
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Sara Shavel-Jessop or Dr Tara Murphy Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologists (sara.shavel-jessop@gosh.nhs.uk/ Tara.Murphy@gosh.nhs.uk).
About us
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we'll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women's networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description attached.
This job description is intended as an outline of the areas of activity and can be amended in the light of the changing needs of the service and will be reviewed as necessary in conjunction with the post-holder.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description attached.
This job description is intended as an outline of the areas of activity and can be amended in the light of the changing needs of the service and will be reviewed as necessary in conjunction with the post-holder.
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Gosh Values
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or educational psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
- Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
- Eligibility for Chartered status and membership of Division of Clinical or Educational Psychology, and Division of Neuropsychology
Desirable
- Holder of the Post-doctoral qualification in Neuropsychology. Also must have eligibility for BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical or educational psychologist for a minimum of 8 years and as a neuropsychologist for an additional minimum of three years
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan. Experience assessing/developing & implementing psychological interventions in specialized area
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision E A&I Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/educational psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific paediatric specialties
- Post-graduate level knowledge in paediatric neuropsychology
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide effective clinical leadership
- Must be able to plan for delivery of a specialist service, both short/medium and long term
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in the context of significant barriers to acceptance, hostility, antagonism or highly emotive atmosphere. Communicating at times highly complex condition related information to patients who may be manipulative or hostile
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy
- Able to demonstrate skills for assessment, interpretation, and appropriate formulation, where expert opinion may differ
- Skilled in using psychometric and neuropsychological test equipment
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Good communicator
- Evidence of satisfactory and productive multidisciplinary team working
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Gosh Values
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or educational psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
- Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
- Eligibility for Chartered status and membership of Division of Clinical or Educational Psychology, and Division of Neuropsychology
Desirable
- Holder of the Post-doctoral qualification in Neuropsychology. Also must have eligibility for BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical or educational psychologist for a minimum of 8 years and as a neuropsychologist for an additional minimum of three years
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan. Experience assessing/developing & implementing psychological interventions in specialized area
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision E A&I Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/educational psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific paediatric specialties
- Post-graduate level knowledge in paediatric neuropsychology
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide effective clinical leadership
- Must be able to plan for delivery of a specialist service, both short/medium and long term
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in the context of significant barriers to acceptance, hostility, antagonism or highly emotive atmosphere. Communicating at times highly complex condition related information to patients who may be manipulative or hostile
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy
- Able to demonstrate skills for assessment, interpretation, and appropriate formulation, where expert opinion may differ
- Skilled in using psychometric and neuropsychological test equipment
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Good communicator
- Evidence of satisfactory and productive multidisciplinary team working
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
Employer's website
https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
