Clinical Psychologist- Learning Disability
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £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: | 7176331/319-7176331LT |
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.
This Band 7 role is a development post, which offers the possibility of moving to a Band 8a, upon achievement of the necessary skills, knowledge, and competencies.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
This is a part time, permanent position, working 30 hours per week.
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 support a range of training opportunities and ongoing professional development.
It is essential that applicants can drive and have access to a car.
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.
To provide a clinical psychology service to both adults and children with learning disabilities living in North Tyneside, delivering specialist psychological assessments, formulation and interventions, to individuals, families and groups. In addition to provide advice and consultation to non-psychology colleagues and contribute to training initiatives on a multi-disciplinary basis.
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.
This Band 7 role is a development post, which offers the possibility of moving to a Band 8a, upon achievement of the necessary skills, knowledge, and competencies.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
This is a part time, permanent position, working 30 hours per week.
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 support a range of training opportunities and ongoing professional development.
It is essential that applicants can drive and have access to a car.
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.
To provide a clinical psychology service to both adults and children with learning disabilities living in North Tyneside, delivering specialist psychological assessments, formulation and interventions, to individuals, families and groups. In addition to provide advice and consultation to non-psychology colleagues and contribute to training initiatives on a multi-disciplinary basis.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025
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