Job Title: Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Agency: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location: North Shields, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

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Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

The aims of NHCFT Health Psychology are to:o Promote the health, wellbeing and functioning of the population accessing NHCFT, by working with individual patients, families, and groups of patients. o Embed psychologically informed care by supporting healthcare teams and contributing to the systems work of NHCFT and our stakeholder partners. As well as providing assessment, formulation and psychological therapy for individual patients, Psychologists working in healthcare teams can help with:o Understanding the ‘constellation’ of influences upon health and wellbeing (H&WB).o Using this understanding to balance the established approach of diagnostic delineation, with approaches that better address the multiple contextual and systemic factors that can both impact upon and improve an individual’s H&WB.o In doing so, help shape an effective integrated approach to the provision of care, by supporting person-centred and psychosocial approaches across NHCFT pathways and systems.o Further develop the workforce and technology capabilities that are needed to deliver such holistic care, in a way that is more accessible to patients. In line with national guidance across healthcare specialisms, by working together with our teams in this way, the expected outcome will be:o patients at the heart of provision and re-configuring barriers, including the artificial separation of mental and physical health, health and social care and, parallel single-disease pathways.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
• Doctorate in clinical or counselling, or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the range of care settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course – presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or consultation.
• Experience of supervision of healthcare staff.
• Experience of working with patients in a physical healthcare setting.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.

Other requirements

Essential

• Working to the professional body’s Code of Conduct and Professional Guidelines, e.g., British Psychological Society (BPS).
• You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the Trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Desirable

• Record of having published/presented in either peer-reviewed journals and/or books and/or professional conferences.

Closing Date: 14 October 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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