Clinical Psychologist in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 03 November 2026

Are you an experienced Clinical Psychologist with a passion for supporting people living with persistent pain and complex musculoskeletal conditions? We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join the Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service (TIMS) on a fixed-term basis.

Working as part of a highly regarded multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for patients experiencing persistent pain, disability, and the psychological impact of long-term musculoskeletal conditions. You will play a key role in helping individuals improve their quality of life, self-management skills and functional outcomes through evidence-based psychological approaches.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the continued development of psychologically informed practice within an integrated MSK service and work collaboratively alongside physiotherapists, consultants, advanced practitioners and other healthcare professionals across Newcastle and Gateshead.

• 15 Hours/Week

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will provide highly specialist psychological input to patients referred to TIMS with complex musculoskeletal and persistent pain presentations. Responsibilities will include conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, developing biopsychosocial formulations, delivering evidence-based interventions, and providing consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues.

You will contribute to multidisciplinary case discussions, support psychologically informed care across the service, and deliver advice, training and supervision where appropriate. The role will involve working closely with clinicians to enhance patient self-management, reduce barriers to recovery, and improve clinical outcomes for individuals experiencing chronic pain and disability.

You will also contribute to service development, clinical governance activities, audit and quality improvement initiatives, helping to ensure that psychological care remains an integral component of the TIMS model of care.

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.

Job responsibilities

• To take responsibility for clinical psychology provision specialising in a specific area (e.g.: research and audit) within the Pain Management Team in TIMs reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision.
• To provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
• Provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service within the Pain Management Team in TIMs providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within TIMs.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• 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 British Psychological Society
• Registered with HCPC
• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology

Knowledge & Experience

• Additional knowledge of National Good Practice of working as a clinical psychologist in Health services and particularly Pain Management
• Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and with experience of working in Chronic Pain Management
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities, etc.)
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Demonstrable skills in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Computer literate - competent use of email/internet and patient information systems for electronic clinical records and diary management
• The ability to meet the travel requirements of post - community based work

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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