Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	07 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	06 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	317 Trustwide, NE1 4LP
Cwmni:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7305704/317-2025-21-065

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We are proud to announce a newly established Band 8b Clinical Psychology post focused on staff support and wellbeing at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH).

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the shaping and delivery of health, wellbeing, and psychological support services for our workforce. Funded through generous charitable support and forming part of our ambitious People Plan, this role supports our commitment to creating a psychologically safe and compassionate workplace.

The postholder will work closely with colleagues in Occupational Health, People Services, Organisational Development, and across clinical services to embed a trauma-informed, stepped care model of psychological support for staff.

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based interventions; supporting reflective practice spaces; facilitating post-incident responses; and promoting psychologically safe environments across our diverse workforce. The role also involves contributing to service development, evaluation, and training, with opportunities to influence how we support staff across the organisation.

You will join a growing team dedicated to staff wellbeing and will be supported by an established and thriving psychological professions service. We offer excellent peer support, clinical supervision, and CPD opportunities, with strong links to local DClinPsy training courses.
• Interview Date: Tuesday 12 August 2025
• Put in the hours of the post
• 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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As a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, you will play a central role in shaping and delivering the staff support service. You will work closely with the Consultant Psychologist and wider team to embed trauma-informed principles, offer direct clinical input, provide supervision and consultation, and support strategic development of the service.

This post offers variety, autonomy, and the chance to make a real difference in staff wellbeing and organisational culture. We welcome applications for full time or part time hours.

What You’ll Be Doing
• Providing high-quality clinical input as part of a stepped care model.
• Supporting the delivery of trauma-informed interventions and staff support pathways.
• Offering supervision and consultation to colleagues across the team and wider system.
• Contributing to service development, evaluation and quality improvement.
• Working alongside HR, OD and operational leaders to integrate psychological thinking across the organisation.

Why Join Us?
• Help develop and shape psychological support service for NuTH staff.
• Join a large, supportive and well-established Psychology department with excellent supervision, CPD, and peer support.

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

Takes appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision to the service in which this post is located and supports the provision of a stand-alone service including demand/waiting list management, reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service. Is required to provide supervision of clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.


Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to the population served by this post; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients’ 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.


Is expected to take delegated responsibility for aspects of service delivery from the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist and deputise in the absence of the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist.

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.

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.


This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025

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