Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
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About the Role
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.
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.
The Aims of NHCFT Health Psychology
- 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.
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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.
About Northumbria Healthcare
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.
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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!
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Jenny Johns
- Job title: Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: jenny.johns@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0191 2934309
Alternatively, contact cancerhealthpsychology@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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