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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Address: Royal Victoria Infirmary; Queen Victoria Road; Newcastle upon Tyne; Tyne and Wear; NE1 4LP
Contact Number: 0191 282 0999 option 2

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Ref: 317-2025-21-049 Vacancy ID: 7249827

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Accepting applications until: 10-Aug-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 10-Aug-2025 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Trustwide
Tref: 317 Trustwide
Cod post: NE1 4LP
Major / Minor Region: Tyne and Wear

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Oriau: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Cyflog: £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 8c)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: 317 Psychology - Staff and Trainee services

Dyddiad y cyfweliad: 20/08/2025

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

To ensure a high quality, comprehensive specialist clinical psychology service within the health, well-being and specialist psychological service for staff who have experienced psychological harm as a result of their work.
To work with colleagues in Occupational Health, HR, and Organisational Development to align and embed psychological support with wider trust policies and priorities so as to ensure the strategic development of the service in collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle.
Provides a highly specialised and experienced clinical psychology service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations including highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for staff experiencing stress, burnout, trauma, or moral injury relating to their work.
To propose and implement policy and service development for the psychological input to the paediatric services.
To provide professional leadership and management, ensuring systematic governance of the service ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of the Psychology section.
As a major requirement of the job to be responsible for the performance management of all psychological research and development activity within the Paediatric Psychology Service including audit, policy and service development and research programmes.
To support research, evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice of the service.
Some occasional work outside normal hours may be required (e.g. post-incident debriefing).
As a senior member of staff, you may be required to represent the Head of Clinical Service at planning, management, and other fora.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

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.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Meini prawf hanfodol

Clinical post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice with evidence of considerable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in Health Services specifically within child health services
Up to date HCPC Registration
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Leadership or management training (eh. NHS Leadership Academy courses)

Knowledge & Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol

Substantial post qualification experience as a Psychological Professional including experience at a senior level
Has significant previous experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including significant post qualification experience within services supporting staff
Has significant experience of working with staff wellbeing, workplace stress, trauma, or moral injury
Has considerable experience of caseload/workload management and supervision and leadership of others
Experience of working in a trauma-informed way with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treatment of physical abuse
Considerable experience of the assessment, treatment, and management of care for the most complex and challenging clinical presentations
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision
Experience of representing the profession in local policy/management fora
Experience of professional management qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
Experience of delivering psychological interventions in healthcare settings including waiting list management and service prioritisation
Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
Experience of waiting list management and service prioritisation
Has evidence of learning and development in relation to leadership/management
Has knowledge of good practice in recruitment and retention
Has a well-developed level of knowledge regarding key policies and drivers within the NHS, locally and nationally

Meini prawf dymunol

Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Has a track record of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Experience of working in staff support, trauma response or workforce well-being services

Skills & Abilities

Meini prawf hanfodol

Has the knowledge and skills in the strategic development of services and an ability to work at a high level within the organisation and across organisations