Employer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Victoria Infirmary Town 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary Salary £79,504 – £91,609 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2026 23:59 Interview date 06/07/2026
Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (LTC and Adult Lead)
Band 8c
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, w e’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
Due to promotion of the previous postholder, this role to lead psychology in healthcare services for adults and to provide clinical services within the cardiothoracic board at Newcastle Hospitals is now being advertised. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to both operational and strategic leadership of a busy, growing, friendly and supportive team. You will join a committed group of leads in our paediatric, neuropsychology, community and specialist services and and will work closely with the CPPO to maintain and develop services.
- Interview Date: 6 July 2026
- 22 hours 30 minutes/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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Main duties of the job
Your duties will include:
- To ensure delivery of a high quality, comprehensive specialist psychological service
- To have responsibility, in consultation with the CPPO, for the professional leadership, planning, systematic provision and review of the adult services across Psychology in Healthcare at NuTH.
- 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 psychological professionals.
- Provides a highly specialised and experienced psychological service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations including highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.
- To support research, evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice of the service
- As a senior member of staff, you will be required to represent the Head of Clinical Service at planning, management, and other fora.
- Supervision of qualified psychological professionals , assistant psychologists and other clinical staff as required.
- Research and clinical supervision of doctoral trainees.
- To provide training where required.
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:
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
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
- To ensure delivery of a high quality, comprehensive specialist psychological service
- To have responsibility, in consultation with the CPPO, for the professional leadership, planning, systematic provision and review of the adult services across Psychology in Healthcare at NuTH.
- 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 psychological professionals.
- Provides a highly specialised and experienced psychological service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations including highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.
- To support research, evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice of the service
- As a senior member of staff, you will be required to represent the Head of Clinical Service at planning, management, and other fora.
- Supervision of qualified psychological professionals , assistant psychologists and other clinical staff as required.
- Research and clinical supervision of doctoral trainees.
- To provide training where required.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy in mental health and demonstrable practice in this field (Professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level with postqualification supervised practice and additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice with evidence of considerable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist in Health Services, specifically within physical health settings.
- Substantial post qualification experience as a Psychological Professional including experience at a senior level.
- Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC
Knowledge & Experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
- Has considerable experience of caseload/workload management and supervision and leadership of others.
- 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 representing the profession in local policy/management fora.
- 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.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- 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
- Leadership or management training (eh. NHS Leadership Academy courses)
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
- Have substantial post qualification experience including within acute hospital -based or longterm health conditions.
- Experience of the application of psychological practice 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.
Skills & Abilities
- 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.
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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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