Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (N/A)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7300485PM
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 28/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service with opportunities to work in the Pain management service and paediatrics and other specialities as needs arrive across the grouping. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care.
For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from newly qualified candidates looking to progress their career. We support career development through personal development plans, regular supervision and opportunities to develop skills and competencies.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
This post swill be based with the Living Well with Pain and Paediatric service, working within a multi-disciplinary team . The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. Post holders will also contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the service’s quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR and systemic models).
The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have
The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
- Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Fiona Hirst
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912934114
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
- Telephone
- 0191 203 1415
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