Senior Clinical Psychologist

Go back Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust Senior Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 15 July 2025

We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to join our busy multi-disciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team working across Newcastle and Gateshead. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members alongside the Principal Clinical Psychologists, Band 7 psychologist, and Assistant Psychologists assessing children and young people. Professionally there are links with the wider network of psychologists who deliver psychology into our mental health and learning disability teams.

Main duties of the job

You will be working in an environment where there is strong emphasis on teamwork and quality of clinical care. 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 looking for a clinician who has significant experience, 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.

About us

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 value the role of robust, supportive and effective supervision and you will have access to separate clinical and management supervision at a frequency that meets your needs. The post-holder will contribute to the supervision of assistant psychologists, newly qualified psychologists and also team members from wider professions. We have close links with our local clinical training courses and there is opportunity to supervise trainee clinical psychologists on both core and elective placements.

The successful candidate will be supported to develop their leadership skills and to contribute to service development. There will also be opportunities to engage in delivering teaching, training, service evaluation and research according to interests and service need. We will expect the post holder to actively pursue continuous professional development and will support them to identify needs and to progress in a meaningful way. Discussion will take place with the successful candidate in regards to specific role responsibilities, in part based on skills set and interests, as well as the clinical needs of the service.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 1st July 2025

Closing date : 15th July 2025

We welcome your application.

Applicants are invited to get in touch to discuss the post informally please contact either Dr Ellie Dennison (Principal Clinical Psychologist) on or Alexis Baker-Smith (Clinical Lead)

Person Specification Education and Qualification

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
• HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
• Qualification in neurodevelopmental assessment tool (eg ADOS / ADI)
• Experience of diagnostic neurodevelopmental assessment with CYP
• Experience of delivering teaching/training in neurodevelopmental assessment

Knowledge and Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups relevant to the client group
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Skills and Competencies

• Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust