Job summary
We are proud to announce a newly established Band 8b Clinical Psychology post focused on staff support and wellbeing at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH).
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the shaping and delivery of health, wellbeing, and psychological support services for our workforce. Funded through generous charitable support and forming part of our ambitious People Plan, this role supports our commitment to creating a psychologically safe and compassionate workplace.
The postholder will work closely with colleagues in Occupational Health, People Services, Organisational Development, and across clinical services to embed a trauma-informed, stepped care model of psychological support for staff.
You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based interventions; supporting reflective practice spaces; facilitating post-incident responses; and promoting psychologically safe environments across our diverse workforce. The role also involves contributing to service development, evaluation, and training, with opportunities to influence how we support staff across the organisation.
You will join a growing team dedicated to staff wellbeing and will be supported by an established and thriving psychological professions service. We offer excellent peer support, clinical supervision, and CPD opportunities, with strong links to local DClinPsy training courses.
Main duties of the job
- Interview Date: Tuesday 12 August 2025
- Put in the hours of the post
- 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
As a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, you will play a central role in shaping and delivering the staff support service. You will work closely with the Consultant Psychologist and wider team to embed trauma-informed principles, offer direct clinical input, provide supervision and consultation, and support strategic development of the service.
This post offers variety, autonomy, and the chance to make a real difference in staff wellbeing and organisational culture. We welcome applications for full time or part time hours.
What You'll Be Doing
- Providing high-quality clinical input as part of a stepped care model.
- Supporting the delivery of trauma-informed interventions and staff support pathways.
- Offering supervision and consultation to colleagues across the team and wider system.
- Contributing to service development, evaluation and quality improvement.
- Working alongside HR, OD and operational leaders to integrate psychological thinking across the organisation.
Why Join Us?
- Help develop and shape psychological support service for NuTH staff.
- Join a large, supportive and well-established Psychology department with excellent supervision, CPD, and peer support.
About us
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospital
o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital
o Newcastle Fertility Centre
o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
o Northern Genetics Service
o 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Takes appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision to the service in which this post is located and supports the provision of a stand-alone service including demand/waiting list management, reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting withinthis part of the service. Is required to provide supervision of clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to the population served by this post; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Is expected to take delegated responsibility for aspects of service delivery from the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist and deputise in the absence of the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Takes appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision to the service in which this post is located and supports the provision of a stand-alone service including demand/waiting list management, reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting withinthis part of the service. Is required to provide supervision of clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to the population served by this post; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Is expected to take delegated responsibility for aspects of service delivery from the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist and deputise in the absence of the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- 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 British Psychological Society.
- HCPC Registration.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in psychological therapy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate training relevant speciality e.g. neuropsychology, CBT, CAT.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Significant amount of consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients in health care services
- Additional knowledge of national good practice of working as a clinical psychologist
- Completed further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for other psychologists and healthcare professionals
- Substantive experience of clinical supervision (post qualification).
- Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the treatment of a wide variety of patient groups.
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the patient group and mental health.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Clinical experience of working with the population served by this post.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Application of psychological knowledge to a population and whenever acting as team lead takes day to day responsibility for psychological input in relation to service in which post is located.
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively both orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Demonstrable skills in waiting list management.
- Skills in audit, clinical governance and resource management.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Computer literate - competent use of email/internet/software
- Ability to meet any travel requirements of the post.
Desirable
- Management and recruitment skills.
- Leadership skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- 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 British Psychological Society.
- HCPC Registration.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in psychological therapy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate training relevant speciality e.g. neuropsychology, CBT, CAT.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Significant amount of consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients in health care services
- Additional knowledge of national good practice of working as a clinical psychologist
- Completed further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for other psychologists and healthcare professionals
- Substantive experience of clinical supervision (post qualification).
- Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the treatment of a wide variety of patient groups.
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the patient group and mental health.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Clinical experience of working with the population served by this post.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Application of psychological knowledge to a population and whenever acting as team lead takes day to day responsibility for psychological input in relation to service in which post is located.
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively both orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Demonstrable skills in waiting list management.
- Skills in audit, clinical governance and resource management.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Computer literate - competent use of email/internet/software
- Ability to meet any travel requirements of the post.
Desirable
- Management and recruitment skills.
- Leadership skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
