Assistant Psychologist

NHS Jobs; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to support the Maternal Mental Health Service within the Paediatric and Women's Health Psychology service. The post is 0.6 wte, substantive, and involves developing clinical pathways and service evaluation with supervision from senior clinical psychologists.

The role offers CPD opportunities, involvement in service improvement projects, and cross-site collaboration with adult psychology colleagues.

Qualifications

• Single honours degree (upper second class or higher) in psychology
• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology
• Experience of literature searches and reviews

Responsibilities

• To support in the delivery of psychological interventions for people whose mental health has been significantly impacted e.g. by birth trauma, perinatal loss, or tokophobia.
• Key Relationships: Work closely with the 8B Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist and under supervision of the Band 8a Clinical Psychologist/Specialist Psychology Therapist in Psychology in Healthcare.
• Be an active part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• This post will be based mainly on the Royal Victoria Infirmary site but will be expected to work across NUTH facilities depending on patient and service need.

Skills

Literature reviews

Group work facilitation

High level report writing

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Microsoft Office

Statistics software

Education

Psychology degree (2:1 or above)

Postgraduate training in professional psychology

Tools

Microsoft Office

Statistical packages

Job description

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Psychologist

The closing date is 05 October 2026

An opportunity has arisen for a substantive Assistant Psychologist post working in the new Maternal Mental Health Service within the Paediatric and Women's Health Psychology service at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust. The post is available on a 0.6 wte basis.The paediatric and women's health psychology service is a thriving department, which is committed to child and family centred care. There are opportunities for professional development through regular CPD, involvement in service improvement projects, and supervision. The paediatric and women's health psychology service is part of the wider department of Psychology in Healthcare, enabling collaboration and support with adult psychology colleagues. There are also close links with the doctorate clinical psychology courses at Newcastle and Teeside Universities.The post will involve supporting qualified staff who will be seeing women and birthing people under the care of NUTH Maternity Services for assessment and therapy. This is a brand new service, and the post holder will work closely with the team to develop clinical pathways, robust processes for service evaluation, developing Patient Participation and Involvement in developing the new service.

Main duties of the job

• In addition to the core components of Assistant Psychologist (Band 5) the post holder will:
• Use research skills for conducting literature reviews in the area of maternal mental health and undertake audits and service evaluation.
• Gather and analyse outcome and other measures, and qualitative feedback.
• Prepare, organise and maintain assessment and therapy resources for a range of contexts e.g. psycho-educational tools, psychometric tests and electronic resources.
• Support the development of the referral pathway within the new maternal mental health service and maintain up-to-date records.
• To assist practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist applied psychology service in the Maternal Mental Health Service.
• Under supervision of the Band 8A clinical psychologist, support the clinical work of the service as indicated, which may include brief interventions and co-facilitation of groups.
• Contribute to team meetings and MDT discussions within the maternity service.
• Support and contribute to training for colleagues within the service and wider systems.

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 support in the delivery of psychological interventions for people whose mental health has been significantly impacted e.g. by birth trauma, perinatal loss, or tokophobia.

Key Relationships

Work closely with the 8B Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist and under supervision of the Band 8a Clinical Psychologist/Specialist Psychology Therapist in Psychology in Healthcare.

Be an active part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Geographical Location/Boundaries:

This post will be based mainly on the Royal Victoria Infirmary site but will be expected to work across NUTH facilities depending on patient and service need.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• oSingle honours degree (upper second class or higher) in psychology
• oFurther post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology

EXPERIENCE

• oPaid or voluntary experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist or alongside a Clinical Psychologist
• oComputer literate with experience of using Microsoft Office and statistical packages for data analysis
• oExperience of conducting literature searches and reviews
• oExperience of working with patient groups with psychological difficulties
• oExperience of working with groups

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• oKnowledge of developmental processes from childhood to old age
• oUnderstanding the needs of individuals with psychological difficulties
• oAn ability to apply existing psychological knowledge and skills to a healthcare setting
• oUnderstanding of issues relating to confidentiality
• oHigh level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive
• oAn understanding of the psychological needs of patients
• oHigh level report writing

OTHER

• oAbility to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
• oAbility to meet the travel requirements of the post
• oEvidence of continued professional development
• oA desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology

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.

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