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Position: Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (LTC and Adult Lead)

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Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (LTC and Adult Lead)

The closing date is 15 October 2026

Due to promotion of the previous postholder, this role to lead psychology in healthcare services for adults and to provide clinical services within the cardiothoracic board at Newcastle Hospitals is now being advertised. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to both operational and strategic leadership of a busy, growing, friendly and supportive team. You will join a committed group of leads in our paediatric, neuropsychology, community and specialist services and and will work closely with the CPPO to maintain and develop services.

Interview Date Tuesday 10 November 2026

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include:

To ensure delivery of a high quality, comprehensive specialist psychological service
To have responsibility, in consultation with the CPPO, for the professional leadership, planning, systematic provision and review of the adult services across Psychology in Healthcare at NuTH.
To provide professional leadership and management, ensuring systematic governance of the service ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of the psychological professionals.
Provides a highly specialised and experienced psychological service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations including highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.
To support research, evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice of the service
As a senior member of staff, you will be required to represent the Head of Clinical Service at planning, management, and other fora.
Supervision of qualified psychological professionals , assistant psychologists and other clinical staff as required.
Research and clinical supervision of doctoral trainees.
To provide training where required.

About us

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.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Dental Hospital
Newcastle Fertility Centre
Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

To ensure delivery of a high quality, comprehensive specialist psychological service
To have responsibility, in consultation with the CPPO, for the professional leadership, planning, systematic provision and review of the adult services across Psychology in Healthcare at NuTH.
To provide professional leadership and management, ensuring systematic governance of the service ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of the psychological professionals.
Provides a highly specialised and experienced psychological service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations including highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.
To support research, evaluation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice of the service
As a senior member of staff, you will be required to represent the Head of Clinical Service at planning, management, and other fora.
Supervision of qualified psychological professionals , assistant psychologists and other clinical staff as required.
Research and clinical supervision of doctoral trainees.
To provide training where required.

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