Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Middlesbrough, United Kingdom - South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Up to 37.5 Hours per week


We are looking for Consultant Neuropsychologists / Consultant Clinical Psychologists with a special interest in Neuropsychology to provide clinical expertise and leadership within the Neuropsychology service.

The Neuropsychology service sits within the sub-regional neurosciences service based at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We provide specialist neuropsychological assessment and treatment to patients from a variety of specialties, including Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neurophysiology, Stroke and Neurorehabilitation.


The post holders will work across inpatient and outpatient settings, providing individual assessment, individual / group treatment, MDT consultation and teaching / training.

The post holders will be responsible for the operational service delivery, service development and clinical governance of the neuropsychology service.

They will provide clinical supervision to psychologists within the team.


The role is split across two sites: The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.

Medical Psychology

The Medical Psychology service is made up of Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Health Psychologists, CBT therapists and Counsellors. We deliver psychological assessment, intervention and support to patients with a range of medical conditions across the lifespan.

We utilise third wave therapies (especially Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness) alongside CBT as the core therapeutic modalities, with training and supervision provided to support delivery of these approaches.

We also carry out clinical audit, research and service evaluation.

We have strong links with the Doctoral Training Programmes at the University of Teesside, and we provide teaching, placements and research projects for Clinical Psychology and Counselling Psychology trainees.

The Trust encourages innovation and service development, and we actively support this within the Medical Psychology service.

All clinicians are expected to take on service development and service governance duties as part of their role, both within the Psychology service and within the wider MDTs in which we work.

We provide mentoring and support to deliver this.


South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.

You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role


After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

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