Assistant Psychologist; XR

Wehave a permanent post for a full-time Assistant Psychologist to work within

Adult Medicine services at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The Adult Medicine team covers avariety of medical specialties including cardiology, pain, renal,rheumatology, and gastro, meaning that your work will be varied and interesting. This post offers the opportunity to deliver a brief structuredcompassion-focused intervention on a 1:1 basis within these specialities. Therewill also be the opportunity to contribute to and assist with group work suchas Living with Pain groups and information talks for new patients.

We valueand prioritise training and supervision, and this role will be an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills and to deliver meaningful clinical work.

Expected Shortlisting Date

22/01/2026

Planned Interview Date

16/02/2026

Thispost would suit someone with previous experience of working directly with clients, who is interested in working within an acute physical health setting/medical team. You will be providing low intensity therapeutic interventions on an individual basis with patients within the medical specialties and you will receive training to deliver this intervention aswell as regular supervision. You will work alongside other specialistclinicians within the department to deliver group interventions.

You will alsohave the opportunity to support specialist clinicians with other aspects ofservice development and delivery and to contribute to service audits an devaluations.

Youwill be based ess Hospital, within the Department of Clinical& Health Psychology - one of the largest clinical health psychologydepartments in the country. We are a welcoming and friendly department whoenjoy regular away days as well as several special interest groups and afocus on regular supervision. We have over 60 clinicians organised into foursectors (Medicine, Surgery & Rehabilitation, Neuropsychology and Staff Support).

Wehave close links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme at Leeds University and we regularly have trainees on placement. We also have

Year in Industry psychology students on placement, as well as a number of different assistant psychologist posts, meaning that there is a supportive environment for those beginning to consider a psychology career.

The Trust has a range of staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes).

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JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

Therole will involve providing a short-term therapeutic intervention to patients with long term health conditions, referred to any of the sub-specialtieswithin adult medicine (eg pain psychology, gastro psychology). Duties willlargely consist of delivering a low-intensity psychological intervention,based on a manualised four-session treatment protocol. Therapy may beconducted face-to-face or online.

Therole will also involve supporting psychologists to run groups for patients with long term health conditions.

Therole may involve facilitating discussions with people about their experiences including with patients, carers and staff. Duties to include administratingand scoring psychological tests; assessment of participants enrolled in research studies; developing resources; maintenance of databases; data collection and analysis; and assistance with writing papers and researchproposals. This can include the use of a database (Excel); advancedsystematic literature searches and retrieval; data collection, entry andanalysis using SPSS and liaison with a variety of professions.

The appointeewill be supervised by an applied psychologist.

To undertake clinical work,…