Clinical Psychologist - Internal Only
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustDewsbury, Yorkshire and the Humber
Overview
This is a NHS role (fixed-term) with The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust based in Dewsbury. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515. Applications close on 25 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
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- Deliver Interventions: Provide targeted, evidence-based psychological support as part of a holistic prehabilitation programme.
- Support Adjustment: Help patients manage anxiety, uncertainty, and emotional distress associated with their diagnosis and upcoming treatments.
- Enhance Engagement: Use psychological insights to improve patient engagement, motivation, and adherence to physical activity, nutrition, and wellbeing components of prehab.
- Group Work: Develop and deliver workshops or group interventions focused on coping strategies, resilience, and emotional well-being.
- Collaborative Practice: Work closely with the wider MDT to ensure psychological considerations are embedded throughout each patients prehabilitation journey.
- Monitoring & Evaluation: Maintain accurate clinical records, contribute to outcome monitoring, and support ongoing development of the programmes psychological offer.
- Training & Consultation: Provide psychological expertise, consultation, and training to colleagues to ensure psychologically-informed care.
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS
- HCPC registration (or within six months of achieving HCPC registration).
- Experience of working with patients with physical health conditions and conducting specialist assessments and interventions.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training, consultation.
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Essential: - Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)
How this role compares
We hold 704 NHS vacancies in Yorkshire and the Humber that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £34,944. This role pays more than about 72% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,017 of them in Yorkshire and the Humber.
You have 4 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
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