Job summary
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.
About us
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 HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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).
