Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Psychology - Staff and Trainee services
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-21-049
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Band 8c
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are proud to announce a newly established Consultant Clinical Psychology post focussed on building workforce support and wellbeing services in at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape health, well-being and psychological support services at NuTH. Following generous charity support, and as part of our People Plan offer, the postholder will work in collaboration with colleagues in Occupational Health, People Services, Organisational Development, and across clinical services.
You will be part of and will provide strategic and operational leadership within a growing team, ensuring the development of a trauma-informed, evidence-based stepped care model of support for staff. You’ll ensure high standards of clinical governance, be familiar with a compassionate approach to leadership, and be confident at supporting reflective practice and post event reflective spaces across diverse organisations.
The post will sit alongside colleagues within the People Service Directorate and within a large, well-established, supportive psychological professions service with strong peer networks, supervision, and CPD opportunities. We have strong links to local DClin Psychology courses.
- Interview Date Wednesday 20 August 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
- Providing expert clinical leadership for a trauma-informed, stepped care staff support pathway.
- Working collaboratively with Occupational Health, HR, and Organisational Development to align psychological support with wider Trust priorities and the People Plan.
- Leading team development, including line management, supervision, and ongoing clinical guidance.
- Providing highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for staff experiencing stress, burnout, trauma or moral injury relating to their work.
- Contributing to a culture of psychological safety and wellbeing across the organisation.
- Supporting evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
- Freeman Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
- Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To ensure a high quality, comprehensive specialist clinical psychology service within the health, well-being and specialist psychological service for staff who have experienced psychological harm as a result of their work.
- To work with colleagues in Occupational Health, HR, and Organisational Development to align and embed psychological support with wider trust policies and priorities so as to ensure the strategic development of the service in collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle.
- Provides a highly specialised and experienced clinical psychology service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations including highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for staff experiencing stress, burnout, trauma, or moral injury relating to their work.
- To propose and implement policy and service development for the psychological input to the paediatric services.
- To provide professional leadership and management, ensuring systematic governance of the service ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of the Psychology section.
- As a major requirement of the job to be responsible for the performance management of all psychological research and development activity within the Paediatric Psychology Service including audit, policy and service development and research programmes.
- To support research, evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice of the service.
- Some occasional work outside normal hours may be required (e.g. post-incident debriefing).
- As a senior member of staff, you may be required to represent the Head of Clinical Service at planning, management, and other fora.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Clinical post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice with evidence of considerable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in Health Services specifically within child health services
- Up to date HCPC Registration
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- Leadership or management training (eh. NHS Leadership Academy courses)
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post qualification experience as a Psychological Professional including experience at a senior level
- Has significant previous experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including significant post qualification experience within services supporting staff
- Has significant experience of working with staff wellbeing, workplace stress, trauma, or moral injury
- Has considerable experience of caseload/workload management and supervision and leadership of others
- Experience of working in a trauma-informed way with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treatment of physical abuse
- Considerable experience of the assessment, treatment, and management of care for the most complex and challenging clinical presentations
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of representing the profession in local policy/management fora
- Experience of professional management qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
- Experience of delivering psychological interventions in healthcare settings including waiting list management and service prioritisation
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience of waiting list management and service prioritisation
- Has evidence of learning and development in relation to leadership/management
- Has knowledge of good practice in recruitment and retention
- Has a well-developed level of knowledge regarding key policies and drivers within the NHS, locally and nationally
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Has a track record of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Experience of working in staff support, trauma response or workforce well-being services
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Has the knowledge and skills in the strategic development of services and an ability to work at a high level within the organisation and across organisations
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 Sarah Helps
- Job title
- Head of Service - Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
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