Clinical Psychologist - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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3 weeks ago

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We are delighted to advertise this substantive 8a post for someone passionate about working with people with cancer, who has excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues.

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, alongside provision of consultation, supervision, teaching, training and research & development.

Essential requirements include doctoral level training in clinical psychology and registration with the HCPC.
Interview Date: 24th April 202- 21 Hours per a Week

Provision of clinical psychology services, across oncology and haematology, at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, including:

  • Psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to adults, within outpatient, inpatient and day patient settings.
  • Offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines
  • Teaching and training
  • Supervision within clinical psychology team and for multidisciplinary colleagues
  • Service development, audit and research


Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


Rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
- represented groups.

  • Takes appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision specialising in a specific area (e.g. research and audit) to the service in which this post is located and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service. Is required to provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
  • Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to the population served by this post; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
  • Offering advice and consultation on patients' 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.


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.
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