We are delighted to be recruiting to a 0.4 wte B7 Practitioner Psychologist in the Paediatric Psychology Service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. This is a temporary post funded for 6 months due to secondment cover within the team. This post, based within our Children’s Allergy Service is an exciting and varied role providing a wide range of experiences and opportunities.
We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with children, young people and families with complex health conditions experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with professional colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care.
We would be delighted to share more about the post. For further information or an informal discussion please contact Dr Leah Kugelmass, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, at
[email protected] or 02071884640
Anticipated interview date: week commencing 3rd August 2026
The post will be based within the Children’s Allergy Service offering a wide range of opportunities and varied ways of working.
The Paediatric Allergy Psychology Team provides psychological support to young people and families accessing the Children’s Allergy Service. We aim to consider all of the child’s allergies together, considering their impact and potential treatment on the physical and emotional wellbeing of each child and family. The psychologist will be based within a small team of other psychologists across different grades.
The role requires outpatient working and may involve inpatient working. Direct clinical input to young people and families, group work, MDT working, team liaison, and staff consultation are all fundamental elements of the work offered by the Children’s Allergy Service.
The post sits within Paediatric Psychology Services, which offers good opportunities for collaborative working, audit, research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings and developments. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; journal club, reflective practice groups, and peer supervision as well as SIG networks nationally. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement; as part of King’s Health Partners we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, and dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Please see the attached job description and person specification document for full information and details regarding the current post.
