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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Contact
- Address
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Queen Victoria Road
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne and Wear
- NE1 4LP
- Contact Number
- 0191 282 0999 option 2
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
Closed for applications on: 17-Dec-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 17-Dec-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Postcode
- NE1 4LP
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- 317 Psy Adult Oncology and Palliative Care
- Interview date
- 22/01/2026
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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.
Job overview
We are looking for someone passionate about working with people with cancer, who has excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Interview Date Thursday 22 January 2026
- 15 Hours/Week
- 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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The successful applicant will join the Clinical Psychology team at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital, in providing a specialist clinical psychology service to both oncology and haematology.
The role includes direct clinical work in a variety of settings, including seeing patients on hospital wards and outpatient clinics, and providing telephone call and video appointments. This post also requires providing consultation, supervision, teaching, training and research & development.
Essential requirements include doctoral level training in clinical /counselling psychology (or equivalent) and registration with the HCPC or a recognised qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (recognised by the BABCP), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (as recognised by NHS Talking Therapies) or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing qualification and accreditation (as recognised by the EMDR association).
Working for our organisation
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.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
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 Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
- To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to the long term conditions service including inpatients and outpatients across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
- Offering advice and consultation on client’s 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.
Psychological Therapist
- Post holder will relate to the Psychology in Healthcare Service Referrals are allocated/selected.
- The post holder does not have standalone responsibility for a service area.
- Frequent intense concentration necessary in highly distressing and highly emotional circumstances, including occasional exposure to patients with severe physical and psychological trauma, aggressive/traumatised families.
- Managing conflicting demands upon time whilst delivering agreed objectives.
- Working constructively when there may be conflicting priorities within the team.
- High level of responsibility when working with people who are expressing suicidal ideation, or who are deliberately self-harming and/or those who could potentially cause harm to others.
- Ever present possibility of verbal or physical aggression.
- Range of clinical demands and settings e.g., organising workload to accommodate regular outpatient appointments, community-based groups and prompt responding to ward consults. Ward consults may be time-consuming, involving meetings with relevant staff as well as patients and families in order to assess the best point at which to intervene. Indirect work through staff requires flexibility to meet up around staff rotas and may require some negotiation before it is seen as an acceptable solution.
- Will provide signposting to other services, and act as a source of mental health expertise to non-mental health staff.
- Will provide training, education and support to team members.
- Specialisation in specific therapeutic intervention or conditions e.g., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and depression.
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
Person specification
Meets All Clinical-Counselling Psychologist Criteria
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society
- Registered with HCPC (eligible for HCPC registration at appointment)
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical psychologist, has additional knowledge of National Good Practice of working as a clinical psychologist in Health Services
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Computer literate – competent use of email/internet
Desirable criteria
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities, etc.)
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Car driver
Meets All Psychological Therapist Criteria
Essential criteria
- • Master’s Level Qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy recognised by the BABCP or full IPT qualification and IPT supervision (as recognised by NHS Talking Therapies) or EMDR qualification and accreditation (as recognised by the EMDR association)
- • Current professional registration to practice as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, or a professional registration and accredited in EMDR, working towards/ have consultancy status or accredited IPT therapist with an IPT supervision qualification
- • To be eligible for accreditation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with the BABCP, or a professional registration and accredited in EMDR, working towards/ have consultancy status or accredited IPT therapist with an IPT supervision qualification
- • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- • Significant experience of delivering a wide range of therapeutic approaches to mental health problems in a healthcare setting
- • Understanding of common mental health problems and their impact on social functioning & interaction with physical health
- • Experience of running groups/classes of a psycho-educational nature
- • Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- • Has received risk management training (either formal or through experience) and has carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- • Thorough understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk
- • Experience of delivering training to a range of professionals
- • Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- • Experience of developing user/carer initiatives
- • Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines
- • Ability to manage own caseload and time
- • Ability to write clear reports and letters to referrers
- • Appropriate IT skills to enable smooth working within modern NHS environment including email and excel and patient information systems
- • Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- • Ability to meet the travel requirements of this post (community service)
- • Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, and in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- • The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
- • Able to work collaboratively and develop positive relationships with multidisciplinary team colleagues
Desirable criteria
- • To hold an accredited registration in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with the BABCP, or IPT qualification and IPT supervision (as recognised by NHS Talking Therapies) or EMDR training and accreditation (as recognised by the EMDR association)
- • A qualification or substantial experience in Professional Supervision
- • Experience of clinical audit
- • Experience of supervising others within a therapy setting
- • Trained in provision of supervision for CBT, or EMDR or IPT
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Harrison
- Job title
- Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2231886
- Additional information
Rachel Morse
Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist
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