Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
North Shields, NE29 8NHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
14 October 2026
13 days leftJob description
You will be joining a well-established and forward-thinking Cancer Psychology Team, which forms part of the wider Health Psychology Service within Nor...
The aims of NHCFT Health Psychology are to
- o Promote the health, wellbeing and functioning of the population accessing NHCFT, by workingwith individual patients, families, and groups of patients.
- Embed psychologically informed care by supporting healthcare teams and contributing to thesystems work of NHCFT and our stakeholder partners.As well as providing assessment, formulation and psychological therapy for individual patients, Psychologists working into healthcare teams can help with:o Understanding the 'constellation' of influences upon health and wellbeing (H&WB).
- Using this understanding to balance the established approach of diagnostic delineation, with approaches that better address the multiple contextual and systemic factors that can both impact upon and improve an individual's H&WB.
- In doing so, help shape an effective integrated approach to the provision of care, by supporting person-centred and psychosocial approaches across NHCFT pathways and systems.
- Further develop the workforce and technology capabilities that are needed to deliver such holistic care, in a way that is more accessible to patients. In line with national guidance across healthcare specialisms, by working together with our teams in this way, the expected outcome will be:o patients at the heart of provision and re-configuring barriers, including the artificial separation of mental and physical health, health and social care and, parallel single-disease pathways.
To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services to the Health Psychology services
To provide effective psychological assessment and interventions to the patients of the service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.
To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads.
To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision to colleagues within cancer and palliative care services.
To supervise and support the clinical activities of assistants and trainees.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order 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.
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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
- Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the range of care settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course - presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or consultation.
- Experience of supervision of healthcare staff.
- Experience of working with patients in a physical healthcare setting.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
Other requirements
Essential
- Working to professional body's Code of Conduct and Professional Guidelines e.g British Psychological Society (BPS).
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Desirable: - Record of having published/presented in either peer reviewed journals and/or books and/or professional conferences.
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First seen
19 September 2026
Last checked
22 September 2026
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