Clinical Psychologist / Applied Psychologist

The Psychology in Healthcare Department (Children and Young People) in undergoing a period of growth and development. As a result, we are looking to recruit a highly motivated and creative Band 7 Clinical Psychologist or a Band 8a Applied Psychologist to work alongside an enthusiastic team.
The successful candidate will be able to provide highly specialist psychological support to children, young people and their families who have complex health needs. The candidate will be expected to contribute to service development and think about creative and innovative ways of working. They will be expected to provide supervision for colleagues and contribute to teaching in the department and in wider systems. Working in this context requires the ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues in multidisciplinary teams and wider systems.
The Psychology in Healthcare Department (Children and young people) is a dynamic team comprised of qualified clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists and assistant psychologists. Staff use a variety of approaches including systemic, CBT, ACT and EMDR amongst others. Staff are supported in their continued professional development. The department values and supports staff wellbeing, for example we take regular lunch breaks, walk together, value thinking time and organize social events.
+ Interview Date Wednesday 22 January 2025
+ 26 Hours 15 Minutes/Week, + To provide highly specialized psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to children, young people and their families.
+ To provide advice and consultation to colleagues from other disciplines and work closely with multidisciplinary teams.
+ To contribute to the wider department for example through service development and project work., + To provide a qualified paediatric clinical psychology service within the paediatric psychology team, providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
+ To offer advice and consultation about children, young people and families on issues of psychological care, to colleagues from other disciplines and to other non-professional carers.
+ To work 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.
+ The post is mainly based at the Great North Children's Hospital but there will be outreach work into the community and other hospitals.
Band 8a
+ To take appropriate responsibility for applied psychology provision specialising in the specific service area in which this post is located and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service.
+ To provide a qualified applied psychology service across all sectors of care to the population; 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 team/service area.
+ To provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
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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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.
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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
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