Clinical Psychologist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	16 Mai 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	15 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad:	317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP
Cwmni:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7157890/317-2025-20-43-DR

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to work with children and young people in the paediatric oncology service at the Great North Children's Hospital. This is part of the wider Psychology in Healthcare Service which provides psychological support to adult, children and neuropsychology patients.
The post holder will be based in the Paediatric Psychology Service at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne. The successful post holder will be involved in delivering evidence-based interventions to children, young people and their families who are under the care of the regional Paediatric Oncology Service. We have a very supportive team with close MDT working relationships and managerial support.

• Interview date: Monday 2 June 2025
• 18 hours 45 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.

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We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who must demonstrate essential requirements from the job description.

Key elements of this include:
• A Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
• Training in 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.
• Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• An interest in working in working in a medical setting with children and young people with health conditions.

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
• To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to the paediatric oncology service including inpatients and outpatients; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
• Offering advice and consultation on a patient’s psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service

Within the service, we are keen to support the development of newly qualified and more experienced psychologists in the role through post grad training and CPD opportunities. The post holder will receive regular support and supervision (as well as access to specialist supervision) within the service and have the opportunity to contribute to service development. The Psychology in Healthcare service provides training places and teaching for the local DClinPsych course.

Clinical
• Delivering specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients within a paediatric oncology setting
• Maintaining an individual caseload with patients across a range of clinical severity and working with patients who may need to pace their engagement in treatment dependent on symptom or condition severity.
• Showing professionalism when working with patients and families who may become distressed in the face of ongoing difficulties with their health.
• Being aware of the challenges and potential stigma faced by patients with long term disability.
• Consideration of potential barriers to engagement e.g., English is not a 1st language, social deprivation.
• Undertaking triage which involves significant clinical decision-making when assessing referral and clinical information and deciding the appropriate treatment either within the service or signposting to a relevant service.
• Contributing to MDT meetings and participating in effective multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Communicating complex and clinically sensitive information to referrers, patients and professional colleagues effectively.
• Candidates should be organised and self-motivated to manage own workload across out-patient and community settings.

Service Development
• Contributing to service development and the Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives within the service.

Teaching and Training
• Teaching and Training for professional groups.
• Teaching and Training for clinical psychology trainees

Research, audit and service development

This includes:
• Being involved in research and audit service development opportunities.
• Keeping up-to-date with the evidence base and working with colleagues within the service to develop service provision based on evidence.

The posts are based in Newcastle upon Tyne. As a Primary Treatment Centre for Paediatric Oncology we see patients from the North East and North Cumbria. You will provide psychological therapy services face to face, or via telephone and video appointments.

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.

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 month’s pay.


This advert closes on Thursday 22 May 2025

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