Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 14 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 February 2026 |
| Location: | Wallsend, NE28 7PD |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7710928/319-7710928LH |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, committed, and compassionate 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 are a lifespan service and provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with learning disabilities and physical health needs, mental health needs, forensic histories, behavioural expressions of need, and dementia.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family, systems and professional colleagues to enhance health and well-being, improve quality of life for our clients and their systems, address health inequalities, and promote positive health outcomes.
A candidate must have substantial post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of clients in a Learning Disability or closely aligned setting; substantial experience of clinical supervision, preferably with formal training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff; demonstrate evidence of further specialist training/CPD as required by HCPC post-qualification; and have received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision, whilst working as a Clinical Psychologist post-qualification.
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; forensic experience will therefore be highly valued. The post holder will play a key role in 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, 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 highly specialist clinical psychology assessment, therapy, and consultation therapy service to individuals with learning disabilities, their families, carers, and other professionals 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 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 28 Jan 2026
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, committed, and compassionate 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 are a lifespan service and provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with learning disabilities and physical health needs, mental health needs, forensic histories, behavioural expressions of need, and dementia.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family, systems and professional colleagues to enhance health and well-being, improve quality of life for our clients and their systems, address health inequalities, and promote positive health outcomes.
A candidate must have substantial post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of clients in a Learning Disability or closely aligned setting; substantial experience of clinical supervision, preferably with formal training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff; demonstrate evidence of further specialist training/CPD as required by HCPC post-qualification; and have received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision, whilst working as a Clinical Psychologist post-qualification.
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; forensic experience will therefore be highly valued. The post holder will play a key role in 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, 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 highly specialist clinical psychology assessment, therapy, and consultation therapy service to individuals with learning disabilities, their families, carers, and other professionals 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 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 28 Jan 2026