King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Principal Psychotherapist / Renal Psychosocial Team Lead
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An Exciting Opportunity for a Principal Psychotherapist
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Principal Psychotherapist to join the Renal Service at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role will provide clinical leadership for the Renal Psychosocial Team, delivering specialist psychological support to patients with chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplant needs, while driving service development and multidisciplinary collaboration.
About the Role
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced clinician who is passionate about improving patient outcomes, embedding psychologically informed care, and supporting staff in delivering high-quality, holistic care. This is an excellent opportunity to influence practice, lead service innovation, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of renal patients and their families.
Responsibilities
The Principal Psychotherapist will:
- Lead the Renal Psychosocial Team, providing clinical and operational leadership to psychological therapy and social work staff delivering specialist care to patients with kidney disease.
- Work as an experienced autonomous psychotherapist, providing highly specialised psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based therapeutic interventions for patients with complex emotional and psychological needs associated with chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplantation.
- Support the delivery of psychologically informed and trauma-informed care across the renal service.
- Provide clinical supervision and professional support to team members.
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Contribute to service development, audit, quality improvement, teaching, and staff support activities, ensuring the service continues to meet national standards and best practice for psychosocial care in renal services.
- Be professionally accountable to the Head of Nursing for Renal & Urology.
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About the Trust
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are:
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- Delivering high-quality patient care.
- Creating a great place to work.
- Leading pioneering research, innovation, and education.
- Building strong and successful partnerships.
- Providing timely and efficient care.
- Ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
We have also agreed four new organisational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
Commitment to Sustainability
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste, and pollution wherever possible.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
- Name: alberto santin
- Job Title: Head of Nursing
- Email Address: alberto.santin@nhs.net
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