There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service with opportunities to work in the Pain management service and paediatrics and other specialities as needs arrive across the grouping. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care. For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from newly qualified candidates looking to progress their career. We support career development through personal development plans, regular supervision and opportunities to develop skills and competencies. 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. This post swill be based with the Living Well with Pain and Paediatric service, working within a multi-disciplinary team. The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. Post holders will also contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees. 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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Fiona Hirst Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: fiona.hirst@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01912934114