Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 19/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
Join a well-established Cancer Psychology Team within Northumbria's Health Psychology Service, providing high-quality psychological care to adults and families affected by cancer. The role involves specialist assessment, treatment, and supporting staff through advice, consultation, supervision, and training. You will contribute to embedding psychologically informed care and promoting health, wellbeing, and functioning across the population accessing NHCFT. The position focuses on person-centred and psychosocial approaches within cancer and palliative care services.
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
- Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Experience and Knowledge
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the range of care settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course - presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or consultation.
- Experience of supervision of healthcare staff.
- Experience of working with patients in a physical healthcare setting.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Working to professional body's Code of Conduct and Professional Guidelines e.g British Psychological Society (BPS).
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
- Record of having published/presented in either peer reviewed journals and/or books and/or professional conferences.
- Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
- Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Experience and Knowledge
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the range of care settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course - presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or consultation.
- Experience of supervision of healthcare staff.
- Experience of working with patients in a physical healthcare setting.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Working to professional body's Code of Conduct and Professional Guidelines e.g British Psychological Society (BPS).
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
- Record of having published/presented in either peer reviewed journals and/or books and/or professional conferences.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
The closing date is 14 October 2026
Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
The aims of NHCFT Health Psychology are to: o Promote the health, wellbeing and functioning of the population accessing NHCFT, by workingwith individual patients, families, and groups of patients. o Embed psychologically informed care by supporting healthcare teams and contributing to thesys
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