Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
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Exciting Opportunity in Health Psychology at Northumbria Healthcare
An exciting opportunity has arisen in health psychology at Northumbria Healthcare for a practitioner psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Health) to join our Living Well with Pain (LWWP) service. The successful candidate would join an experienced multidisciplinary service, comprising of psychological practitioners, physiotherapy and pharmacy.
About the Role
LWWP is a well-utilised service, taking referrals from across primary and secondary care services. We work within a biopsychosocial framework, supporting adults living with persistent pain in the Northumbria region to improve their quality of life. Psychologically informed care is an integral part of our approach in supporting people to understand and improve their relationship with persistent pain.
For this post, we would be interested in receiving applications from candidates due to qualify from a doctoral psychology course.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality evidence-based psychological therapies for people living with persistent pain, drawing upon a range of psychological models, including, but not limited to, acceptance and commitment, and cognitive behavioural therapies, in addition to the latest in pain science approaches.
- Work across the MDT, providing input into referral and assessment pathways, and delivering the Pain Management Programme (PMP) group.
- Support service development and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the service’s quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills.
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Requirements
- The post will be based between Wansbeck and North Tyneside General Hospitals; however, the successful candidate would be expected to work across several hospital and community venues within Northumbria and therefore Trustwide travel is essential.
What We Offer
- Psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually, and through specialist model supervision groups within the wider health psychology grouping.
About Us
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!
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Application Information
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Louise Hamilton
- Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: louise.hamilton@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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