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Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job details
Posting date: 29 April 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 29 May 2025
Location: North Shields, NE29 8NH
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 7143316/319-7143316SC

Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


We have the opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join us on a 12 month secondment working primarily within the Living Well with Pain Service.

The role requirements are as follows: To provide a high quality, comprehensive and effective clinical health psychology service to all relevant aspects of one or more designated physical health specialisms, primarily living well with Pain service.

To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical health psychology service to clients of the service team and relevant healthcare professionals.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant and trainee clinical psychologists working within one or more designated specialisms and to contribute to the supervision of clinical psychologists working within the designated specialism.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of clinical health psychology practice within the service/team.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.


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.

The role requirements are as follows:

To provide a high quality, comprehensive and effective clinical health psychology service to all relevant aspects of one or more designated physical health specialisms, ,primarily Living Well with Pain.

To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical health psychology service to clients of the service team and relevant healthcare professionals.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant and trainee clinical psychologists working within one or more designated specialisms and to contribute to the supervision of clinical psychologists working within the designated specialism.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of clinical health psychology practice within the service/team.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Essential Criteria:

Post Graduate Doctorate (or equivalent) training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist, including evidence of continuing compliance with the HPC continuing professional development requirements to practise, and eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society.

Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, through further post-qualification training/continuing professional development relevant to this post, such as completion of approved courses in specific therapeutic modalities (e.g. CBT), clinical supervision, further training and experience in supervision/ consultation / training/ research and/or management skills.


This advert closes on Tuesday 13 May 2025

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