Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

You will be joining a well-established and forward-thinking Cancer Psychology Team, which forms part of the wider Health Psychology Service within Northumbria. We are embedded within Cancer and Palliative Care Services and work closely with our medical, nursing, and AHP colleagues.

As a team, we are passionate about delivering high-quality psychological care for adults and their families who are affected by cancer. We also support our staff teams through advice, consultation, clinical supervision, and training.

We place a strong emphasis on activities that help prevent psychological distress and work with partners across our network, including third-sector organisations, to further this agenda. We are deeply committed to promoting and delivering Trauma-Informed Care.

The aims of NHCFT Health Psychology are to:

• Promote the health, wellbeing and functioning of the population accessing NHCFT, by working with individual patients, families, and groups of patients.
• Embed psychologically informed care by supporting healthcare teams and contributing to the systems work of NHCFT and our stakeholder partners.

As well as providing assessment, formulation and psychological therapy for individual patients, Psychologists working into healthcare teams can help with:

• Understanding the 'constellation' of influences upon health and wellbeing (H&WB).
• Using this understanding to balance the established approach of diagnostic delineation, with approaches that better address the multiple contextual and systemic factors that can both impact upon and improve an individual's H&WB.
• In doing so, help shape an effective integrated approach to the provision of care, by supporting person-centred and psychosocial approaches across NHCFT pathways and systems.
• Further develop the workforce and technology capabilities that are needed to deliver such holistic care, in a way that is more accessible to patients. In line with national guidance across healthcare specialisms, by working together with our teams in this way, the expected outcome will be:

• Patients at the heart of provision and re-configuring barriers, including the artificial separation of mental and physical health, health and social care and, parallel single-disease pathways.

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!

• Date posted
• 19 September 2026
• Pay scheme
• Agenda for change
• Band
• Band 7
• Salary
• £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• pro rota per annum
• Contract
• Fixed term
• Duration
• 12 months
• Working pattern
• Part-time,
• Flexible working
• Reference number
• JA
• Job locations
  North Tyneside General Hospital
  Rake Lane
  North Shields
  NE29 8NH
  
  United Kingdom

• To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services to the Health Psychology services
• To provide effective psychological assessment and interventions to the patients of the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.
• To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads.
• To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision to colleagues within cancer and palliative care services.
• To supervise and support the clinical activities of assistants and trainees.
• 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…