Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £76,965 - £88,682 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7714936/319-7714936SC |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
· To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality highly specialised Clinical Psychology Service to Older Adults living in North Tyneside.
· To provide advice to the Trust to inform the development of such services.
· To provide expert and highly specialized neuropsychological advice to patients with acquired brain damage across the adult age range, including older adults, in North Tyneside, their families and other health and social services professionals involved in their care.
· To provide advice, informed by neuropsychological expertise to the Trust as a whole about services to people with acquired brain injury.
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 post holder exercises the discretion to provide highly specialized neuropsychological assessments for patients living in any other area served by the Trust on special request from and following discussion with a referring consultant or other appropriate senior officer.
· The post holder provides expert advice in relation to the psychological care of older adults and Clinical Neuropsychology to Trust wide services (e.g. Stroke Northumbria) and to relevant officers and committees with a Trust wide remit.
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.
· The Psychiatry of Old Age Service in North Tyneside consists of four community multidisciplinary teams, an Early Onset Dementia Team as well as associated day and inpatient facilities. The post holder fulfills a tertiary function within and across the whole secondary service which is relevant, highly accessible and equitable within existing resources. This service is also provided to the Medical Directorate as a whole within the North Tyneside locality.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Feb 2026
· To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality highly specialised Clinical Psychology Service to Older Adults living in North Tyneside.
· To provide advice to the Trust to inform the development of such services.
· To provide expert and highly specialized neuropsychological advice to patients with acquired brain damage across the adult age range, including older adults, in North Tyneside, their families and other health and social services professionals involved in their care.
· To provide advice, informed by neuropsychological expertise to the Trust as a whole about services to people with acquired brain injury.
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 post holder exercises the discretion to provide highly specialized neuropsychological assessments for patients living in any other area served by the Trust on special request from and following discussion with a referring consultant or other appropriate senior officer.
· The post holder provides expert advice in relation to the psychological care of older adults and Clinical Neuropsychology to Trust wide services (e.g. Stroke Northumbria) and to relevant officers and committees with a Trust wide remit.
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.
· The Psychiatry of Old Age Service in North Tyneside consists of four community multidisciplinary teams, an Early Onset Dementia Team as well as associated day and inpatient facilities. The post holder fulfills a tertiary function within and across the whole secondary service which is relevant, highly accessible and equitable within existing resources. This service is also provided to the Medical Directorate as a whole within the North Tyneside locality.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Feb 2026