We are looking for a confident and enthusiastic psychologist to join our busy multi-disciplinary Sunderland South Tyneside Children and Young People's Service. The post is based in the South Tyneside team neurodevelopmental assessment pathway. There will also be opportunities to work into the mental health pathway. This will enable the successful candidate to develop and extend their clinical skills and knowledge.
You will be working in an environment where there is strong emphasis on teamwork and quality of clinical care. You will work collaboratively with our friendly multidisciplinary team members including other qualified psychologists and Assistant Psychologists who support the qualified roles. Professionally there are links with the wider network of psychologists who deliver psychology across the service, including learning disability and cared for pathways. As a service, we value the role of robust, supportive and effective supervision and you will have access to separate clinical and management supervision. The post-holder will also have the opportunity to contribute to the supervision of Assistant Psychologists and team members from wider professions.
Within the neurodevelopmental assessment team 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 ideally looking for a clinician who has 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. The successful candidate will be supported in developing specialist skills that are relevant to this role, for example completing training in ADOS assessment.
Within the mental health pathway we deliver a range of psychological therapies including CBT, EMDR, Family Therapy, Art Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to further develop their psychological therapies skills through co-working and robust supervision.
We 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.
As a service we believe in investing in staff and there will be support to develop leadership skills and to contribute to service developments. There will also be opportunities to engage in delivering teaching, training, service evaluation and research according to your interests and service need. We will expect the post holder to actively pursue continuous professional development and will support them to develop through job planning and appraisals.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 28 th August 2025
Closing date : 11 th September 2025
We welcome your application.