Job Description
For questions about this job, contact:
Louise Johnson
Consultant Psychologist
louise.johnson17@nhs.net
Shortlisting Date: 09/11/2026
Interview Date: 13/11/2026
Please Note: All salaries listed reflect the pay for full time roles. Any part time roles will be pro rata.
Job Summary
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Psychologist (Band 4), 1.0 WTE, to join us in providing specialist clinical psychology services to adults and children admitted following major trauma at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI). The successful candidate will have the opportunity to engage in a range of clinical and research activities, which will include direct therapeutic work with patients who have experienced traumatic injury both in an inpatient and outpatient setting. The role will be based at Leeds General Infirmary and St James’s University Hospital.
We welcome applications from individuals who have an interest in working in a clinical health setting. The successful candidate will be required to work alongside Clinical Psychologists who work as part of the major trauma psychology team. Duties may involve clinical assessment, including administering and scoring psychological tests, and delivering short-term therapeutic interventions with patients. Other duties include data collection and analysis as related to research projects and supporting in the development of research proposals and writing papers for publication.
The post is part of the Major Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery psychology team. The post holder would be expected to attend team meetings, which are held on Wednesdays, at least once a month. The post holder would receive regular supervision from a qualified member of staff. In addition, there will be opportunities to participate in department-wide Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and to contribute to other activities that support and enhance patient experience.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust provides a range of high profile and expert clinical services which include major trauma, neurorehabilitation and cancer centres. It is an ambitious Trust with core values of empowerment, fairness, collaboration, accountability and patient-centred care. It is in this context that the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has flourished over the past decade. The Department now has over 60 clinicians organised in consultant-led teams. We are a friendly department with a good team spirit who value balancing our work and home life. We encourage flexible working which can, for example, include compression of working hours. The Trust has a range of excellent staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes) and on-site facilities.
Being part of a large teaching hospitals Trust, the Department of Clinical Health Psychology is academically ambitious with strong links to the regional clinical training programme, and schools of psychology, medicine and healthcare at the University of Leeds. There are opportunities for research, service-evaluation, audit, teaching and delivering supervision.
What you will bring to the role
- To undertake clinical work, which will include administrating and scoring a range of psychological tests with patients presenting with various conditions
- To provide research assistance for the assessment of participants enrolled in clinical trials
- To conduct data collection and analysis and assist with writing papers and research proposals
- To use a database (Excel); conduct advanced systematic literature searches and retrieval; data collection, entry and analysis using SPSS
- To liaise with a variety of professions
- To be supervised by a clinical psychologist working in clinical psychology.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible
Open and Honest
One Team
Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People
Improvement and Innovation
Partnerships
Outcomes
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.