Job summary
- Main area
- Op Courage
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent or Secondment
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 263-CCG25-346-EW
- Employer
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Monkwearmouth Hospital
- Town
- Sunderland
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Band 8c
Hello!
We are so delighted you are considering coming to work with us at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).
We know the power of looking into an organisation, one you might want to work in, or one where you are going to get help, and being able to say, ‘I’ve seen somewhere I can fit in and be myself.’ We’re on a journey to make the Trust an inclusive employer, representative of the community we serve and we want more of our community to consider applying for jobs with us.
Opportunities for you
Spanning east to west coasts from Northumberland to Cumbria and from the Scottish Borders down to Middlesbrough we’ve got exciting new opportunities available at every level and in every area.
We offer flexible working, helping work fit around family and caring responsibilities, or training and development needs and there’s lots on offer in the way of benefits, such as, lease cars, childcare schemes, staff discounts, season tickets for travel and a cycle to work scheme. All this in a vibrant workplace supported by the following staff networks.
- Cultural diversity staff network
- Disabled staff network
- LGBT+ staff network
We also have a number of staff support groups which are open to any staff to attend. These Include:
- Armed Forces and Veterans Staff Association
- Mind, Health and Wellbeing Community
- Menopause toolkit and cafes and staff carer support group
We offer fantastic personal development opportunities through our Collective Leadership Programme and other Organisational Development initiatives. Whatever you are looking for, you will be joining a supportive, friendly team, offering varied and interesting roles, with opportunities for career progression.
Always improving
CNTW is regulated by the national healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our last two inspections have rated us as an outstanding organisation. We’re always seeking to improve as an organisation. Do you want to be part of that?
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all external applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead within the Op Courage service in the North of England. We would welcome candidates who are looking for a permanent or interested in a secondment opportunity.
The post holder will work alongside the Operational Service Lead and with our partner organisations.
Services within the collaborative include: -
• Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear
• Combat Stress
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
• Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust -Home
• Walking With the Wounded
• Pennine Care Foundation NHS Trust
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership and act as a champion within the defined area.
To foster a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across the service for veterans.
To ensure quality improvement programmes benefit from the best clinical expertise available.
To promote and monitor quality assurance (such as clinical audit/data), which support individual professional development and inform commissioners and provider organisations.
To maintain credibility with all key partners, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of Key Functional Responsibilities
Communicate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders.
To supervise, develop and grow our clinical workforce.
To understand, communicate and support the implementation of clinical policy relating to treatments (including NICE Quality Standards and Outcome Strategies).
To chair the meeting/specific groups as appropriate.
To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery, presenting reports to the Partnership Board and NHSE.
The post holder will be expected to display the organisational values at all times, working as part of a provider collaborative system for the delivery
Working for our organisation
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 7th October 2025
Closing date : 21st October 2025
We welcome your application.
Person specification
Education and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. Non-medical approved clinician
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Substantial further specialist training and experience, equivalent to at least 6 years’ experience, including being able to demonstrate further specialist training
- Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups.
- Substantial experience of providing clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading R&D programmes.
- Experience of professional management.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions and in adapting interventions to individual complex needs and complex systems.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Specialist teaching & training skills.
- Specialist skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in strategic/organisational work and service development / redesign.
Role Specific
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure of highly emotive behaviour.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of psychological services and the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
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
- Victoria Malone
- Job title
- Associate Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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