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Key details
Location
Site: Royal Victoria Infirmary
Town: 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
Postcode: NE1 4LP
Major / Minor Region: Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8a)
Specialty
Main area: 317 Paediatric Psychology
Interview date: 29/04/2025
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.
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
Psychology in Healthcare is a large, dynamic, and supportive psychology department. We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and creative Clinical Psychologist to establish a lifespan psychology service for patients with haemoglobinopathy in line with national standards. This will be a new service, adding to a small, specialist psychology team within a regional haematology unit. The post-holder will provide a direct and indirect clinical service to adults and young people with haemoglobinopathy including Sickle Cell. Part of this role will include providing individualised assessments (including cognitive assessments), formulation and psychological interventions. This post would suit someone who enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary haematology team to promote psychologically informed care and to offer support through consultation, advice, reflective practice and training. Working in this context will require the ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues in multidisciplinary teams and wider systems. There will be scope for development through CPD, supervision and additional training. The department offers a wide range of therapeutic modalities including CBT, EMDR, Systemic and Family Therapy, CFT & ACT.
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* To take responsibility for the clinical psychology provision for patients with haemoglobinopathy by providing highly specialised psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to patients across the lifespan.
* To work across hospital sites in the city to provide inpatient and outpatient care.
* 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 develop a service model and processes which meet the needs of patients with haemoglobinopathy, reducing stigma and increasing access to psychological care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To take appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision in haemoglobinopathy and to make recommendations regarding service provision.
* To manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service.
* To provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
* Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service within haematology; 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.
* 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 haematology.
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.
Applicant requirements
Warning: You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Info: 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.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society
* HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
* Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology
* Post-graduate training relevant speciality e.g. CBT, neuropsychology
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, and in patient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts / of working within a multicultural framework
* Experience of working as a psychologist in a health psychology setting
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
* In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical psychologist, has additional knowledge of national good practice of working as a clinical psychologist
* Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups (e.g. haemoglobinopathy)
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
SKILLS, APTITUDE
Essential criteria
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Demonstrable skills in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
OTHER
Essential criteria
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
* Computer literate – competent use of email/internet/software
* Ability to meet any travel requirements of the post
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Sara Heary
Job title: Clinical Psychologist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0191 2824081
Additional information:
Anna Chaddock
Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0191 2824081
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