Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A health foundation in North England is looking for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide clinical leadership and expertise within the Op Courage service. The role involves ensuring quality improvement in care for veterans, promoting multi-professional engagement, and supporting staff development. Candidates should have doctoral level training in clinical psychology and substantial experience in psychological assessment and supervision.

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic journals.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and act as a champion within the defined area.
• Ensure quality improvement programmes benefit from the best clinical expertise available.
• Chair meetings and present reports to the Partnership Board and NHSE.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment

Evidence based psychological interventions

Clinical supervision

Communication skills

Teaching & training

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

HCPC registered practitioner psychologist

Job description

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

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 21 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Lead within the Op Courage service in the North of England. We would welcome candidates who are looking for a permanent or interested in a secondment opportunity.

The post holder will work alongside the Operational Service Lead and with our partner organisations.

Services within the collaborative include:

• Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
• Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Walking With the Wounded
• Pennie Care Foundation NHS Trust

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership and act as a champion within the defined area.

To foster a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across the service for veterans.

To ensure quality improvement programmes benefit from the best clinical expertise available.

To promote and monitor quality assurance (such as clinical audit/data), which support individual professional development and inform commissioners and provider organisations.

To maintain credibility with all key partners, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of Key Functional Responsibilities

Communicate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders.

To supervise, develop and grow our clinical workforce.

To understand, communicate and support the implementation of clinical policy relating to treatments (including NICE Quality Standards and Outcome Strategies).

To chair the meeting/specific groups as appropriate.

To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery, presenting reports to the Partnership Board and NHSE.

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.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached job description for full details.

Person Specification

Education and Knowledge

• 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
• Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. Non-medical approved clinician

Knowledge and Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
• Substantial further specialist training and experience, equivalent to at least 6 years' experience, including being able to demonstrate further specialist training
• Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups.
• Substantial experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of leading R&D programmes.
• Experience of professional management.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Skills and Competencies

• Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions and in adapting interventions to individual complex needs and complex systems.
• 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.
• Specialist teaching & training skills.
• Specialist skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Skills in strategic/organisational work and service development / redesign.

Role Specific

• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure of highly emotive behaviour.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of psychological services and the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.

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.