Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Wallsend, NE28 7PD |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7174735/319-7174735KD |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist to join our Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The newly appointed clinician will join our multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Community Learning Disability Nurses and Support Workers.
We provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with intellectual disabilities and mental health, forensic histories, challenging behaviour and dementia, amongst other areas of work.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family and professional colleagues to enhance health and well-being and prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges, health inequalities and promote positive health outcomes.
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 successful applicant will have the opportunity to work with both children and adults and will be involved in a range of clinical activities, including assessments, interventions and management of significant risk in the community.
Helping those around an individual to make sense of their difficulties including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, systemic factors and trauma.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to individuals with intellectual disabilities, their families and carers within the North Tyneside area.
· To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
· To be responsible for the supervision of junior psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees on placement from doctoral courses in clinical psychology.
· 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist to join our Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The newly appointed clinician will join our multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Community Learning Disability Nurses and Support Workers.
We provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with intellectual disabilities and mental health, forensic histories, challenging behaviour and dementia, amongst other areas of work.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family and professional colleagues to enhance health and well-being and prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges, health inequalities and promote positive health outcomes.
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 successful applicant will have the opportunity to work with both children and adults and will be involved in a range of clinical activities, including assessments, interventions and management of significant risk in the community.
Helping those around an individual to make sense of their difficulties including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, systemic factors and trauma.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to individuals with intellectual disabilities, their families and carers within the North Tyneside area.
· To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
· To be responsible for the supervision of junior psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees on placement from doctoral courses in clinical psychology.
· 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025
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