Assistant Psychologist Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust inWallsend inWallsend PUBLISHED THU 9 JAN 2025

Our team is a large, well established and supportive multi disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside. We are currently looking to employ a full time assistant psychologist to join our established clinical psychology department within the community learning disabilities team.

The post holder will be managed and professionally led by the principal clinical psychologist for North Tyneside Community Learning Disabilities Team and supervised by other qualified staff. The post is primarily a clinical role, focussing on supporting our qualified staff in assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and adults with learning disabilities.

The post-holder will be empathetic, adaptable and responsive to the needs of our patients and have experience of working with people with learning disabilities. You will also demonstrate emotional resilience and a capacity to maintain a compassionate approach even in stressful situations. Experience of using psychometrics or carrying out research would be beneficial as this will be a key part of the role.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

To assist in research projects and/or project work including clinically related administration, conduct of audits, and the collection and interpretation of research data under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist where tasks are agreed and reviewed at appropriate intervals.

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.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025

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