A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist to join our Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The newly appointed clinician will join our multi -disciplinary team, consisting of Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Community Learning Disability Nurses and Support Workers.
We provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with intellectual disabilities and mental health, forensic histories, challenging behaviour and dementia, amongst other areas of work.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family and professional colleagues to enhance health and well-being and prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges, health inequalities and promote positive health outcomes.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work with both children and adults, and will be involved in a range of clinical activities, including assessments, interventions and management of significant risk in the community.
Helping those around an individual to make sense of their difficulties including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, systemic factors and trauma.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to individuals with intellectual disabilities, their families and carers within the North Tyneside area.
To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
To be responsible for the supervision of junior psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees on placement from doctoral courses in clinical psychology.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 May 2025
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