Principal Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist

Job title:

Principal Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist

Company

NHS

Job description

We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to join our busy multi-disciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team working across Newcastle and Gateshead. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members alongside Principal, Senior, Band 7 psychologists, and Assistant Psychologists assessing children and young people. Professionally there are links with the wider network of psychologists who deliver psychology into our mental health and learning disability teams.You will be working in an environment where there is strong emphasis on teamwork and quality of clinical care. You will be responsible for leading assessment and formulation of complex presentations, exploring possible neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities and/or disorder as well as thoroughly considering wider factors and comorbidity. Our assessments provide thorough profiling of young people’s strengths, needs and difficulties helping to ensure that they have access to the most appropriate understanding and supports as they develop and grow. We are looking for a clinician who has significant experience, knowledge and training in neurodevelopmental assessment skills and who is able to put the young person and their family at the centre of every assessment.Main duties of the jobAs a service, we value the role of robust, supportive and effective supervision and you will have access to separate clinical and management supervision at a frequency that meets your needs. The post-holder will contribute to the supervision of assistant psychologists, newly qualified psychologists and also team members from wider professions. We have close links with our local clinical training courses and there is opportunity to supervise trainee clinical psychologists on both core and elective placements.The post holder must work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The role will involve proposing and implementing policy or service changes to the wider health and social care structures.This will include supporting the team to operationalise recent NHS-England guidance on standard and enhanced pathways for assessment; utilising psychological leadership skills to assist in the change process. There will be requirement for the post holder to support robust audit and service development procedures within the pathway, to ensure that any changes are robustly evaluated.About usWe aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.Date posted04 March 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 8bSalary£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annumContractPermanentWorking patternFull-timeReference number263-CCG25-081-ABJob locationsBensham HospitalGatesheadNE8 4YLJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesThe successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to support the collective leadership culture within the Trust.Please find attached job description for full details.Advertising date : 4th March 2025Closing date : 18th March 2025We welcome your application.Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesThe successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to support the collective leadership culture within the Trust.Please find attached job description for full details.Advertising date : 4th March 2025Closing date : 18th March 2025We welcome your application.Person SpecificationExperienceEssential

• Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months or an alternative agreed by the Psychological Services Professional Lead.
• Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups
• Substantial experience of providing clinical supervision

SkillsEssential

• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Well-developed teaching & training skills
• Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
• Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through selfmanagement and use of the clinical supervision process

QualificationsEssential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
• HCPC registered practitioner psychologist

Person SpecificationExperienceEssential

• Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months or an alternative agreed by the Psychological Services Professional Lead.
• Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups
• Substantial experience of providing clinical supervision

SkillsEssential

• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Well-developed teaching & training skills
• Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
• Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through selfmanagement and use of the clinical supervision process

QualificationsEssential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
• HCPC registered practitioner psychologist

Expected salary

£62215 – 72293 per year

Location

Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

Job date

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:30:11 GMT

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