Clinical or Counselling Psychologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 to £56,515 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	North Shields, NE29 8NH
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	19 Sept 2026
Closing date:	14 Oct 2026

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Summary

To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services to the Health Psychology services To provide effective psychological assessment and interventions to the patients of the service. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies. To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads. To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision to colleagues within cancer and palliative care services. To supervise and support the clinical activities of assistants and trainees. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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