Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

You will be joining a well‑established and forward‑thinking Cancer Psychology Team, which forms part of the wider Health Psychology Service within Northumbria. We are embedded within Cancer and Palliative Care Services and work closely with our medical, nursing, and AHP colleagues.

As a team, we are passionate about delivering high‑quality psychological care for adults and their families who are affected by cancer. We also support our staff teams through advice, consultation, clinical supervision, and training.

We place a strong emphasis on activities that help prevent psychological distress and work with partners across our network, including third‑sector organisations, to further this agenda. We are deeply committed to promoting and delivering Trauma‑Informed Care.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

• 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 o

f 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jenny Johns Job title: Lead Clinical Psychologist Email address: jenny.johns@nhct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0191 2934309

Or contact cancerhealthpsychology@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk