Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist (Obesity)

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist (Obesity)

The closing date is 02 December 2025

Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Obesity)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious person to join our weight management team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust which provides a Tier 4 and Tier 3 Weight Management Service in Lambeth, Bromley, Bexley, Lewisham and Southwark.

The successful candidate will join our valued and growing Tier 4 and Tier 3 Obesity team to support in the development and delivery of psychologically informed care for people living with obesity. The successful candidate will also work alongside our wider multidisciplinary Tier 4 and 3 Obesity team.

As per the job description and person specification, we are seeking a passionate and enthusiastic candidate who has experience of delivering behaviour change interventions to groups of patients living with complex obesity.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion within our team, and very much welcome applications from those from Asian, Black and minority ethnic backgrounds, and those living with disability.

Main duties of the job

The role offers an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to enhance the care of patients within the Tier 4 and 3 Obesity Service.

The 8a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist will be expected to provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to patients as part of the Tier 4 and 3 Obesity Psychology and Psychotherapy Service. The successful candidate will also play a vital role in holding a psychological perspective within the Tier 4 Obesity multidisciplinary team, working with the patient and healthcare team to develop holistic and patient-centred care plans.

The post holder will be expected to have a strong research background and an enthusiasm for audit, policy, service development and research.

The post holder will support with supervision of the Tier 3 Weight Management Psychology Team, as appropriate, in addition to providing supervision, training and support to the wider Tier 4 and 3 Obesity Team.

The post will involve working remotely from home for some of the time and from the hospital, delivering the online interventions, as well as delivering face to face groups. While exact working hours will be established upon starting with the service, the post will include some evening and/or weekend working.

About us

We actively encourage and support learning and development. We have an active health and wellbeing team, and a working group developing sustainability across our range of functions and services.

Job responsibilities

See attached documents for full details of main responsibilities, job description, person specification and functional requirements.

Person Specification Additional Information

• The post holder will be required to travel between sites and work remotely

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

• Ability to cope with challenging caseloads
• Ability to communicate at a high level with both written and oral level
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate supervision
• Proficient research and service development skills
• Experience of teaching or training

Previous Experience

• Experience of conducting specialist psychological assessments of patients with physical health problems and a range of psychological needs
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presentations
• Experience using a range of evidence based group and individual psychological interventions
• Experience of working in an MDT
• Experience supervising and managing trainee and graduate psychology staff
• Experience of assessing and monitoring risk

Education/Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) in Psychology
• Doctorate level qualification in Psychology with eligibility for HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Diabetes & Endocrinology Day centre, Guy's Hospital

£64,156 to £71,148 a yearp.a. inc. Inner London HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full time

Reference number

196 LIS10077D

Job locations

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Diabetes & Endocrinology Day centre, Guy's Hospital