Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7300485/319-7300485PM |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service with opportunities to work in the Pain management service and paediatrics and other specialities as needs arrive across the grouping. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care.
For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from newly qualified candidates looking to progress their career. We support career development through personal development plans, regular supervision and opportunities to develop skills and competencies.
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.
This post swill be based with the Living Well with Pain and Paediatric service, working within a multi-disciplinary team . The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. Post holders will also contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees.
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.
Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the service’s quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR and systemic models).
The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have
The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement.
This advert closes on Monday 28 Jul 2025
There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service with opportunities to work in the Pain management service and paediatrics and other specialities as needs arrive across the grouping. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care.
For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from newly qualified candidates looking to progress their career. We support career development through personal development plans, regular supervision and opportunities to develop skills and competencies.
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.
This post swill be based with the Living Well with Pain and Paediatric service, working within a multi-disciplinary team . The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. Post holders will also contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees.
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.
Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the service’s quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR and systemic models).
The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have
The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement.
This advert closes on Monday 28 Jul 2025
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