Clinical Counselling Psychologist / Specialist Psychological Therapist: Sponsorship Available

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a substantive Band 8a Clinical Counselling Psychologist / Specialist Psychological Therapist post working in the new Maternal Mental Health Service within the Paediatric and Women’s Health Psychology service at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust.

The paediatric and women’s health psychology service is a thriving department, which is committed to child and family centred care. There are opportunities for professional development through regular CPD, involvement in service improvement projects, and supervision. The paediatric and women’s health psychology service is part of the wider department of Psychology in Healthcare, enabling collaboration and support with adult psychology colleagues. There are also close links with the doctorate clinical psychology courses at Newcastle and Teeside Universities.

The post will involve seeing women under the care of NUTH Maternity Services for assessment and therapy. This is a brand new service, and the post holder will work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to develop clinical pathways, robust processes for service evaluation, developing Patient Participation and Involvement in developing the new service.

  • Interview Date 12 November 2026
  • 22.5 hours per week You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

Work with women, birthing people and their partners receiving all or elements of their maternity/ neonatal care through NUTH, who are experiencing distress in relation to their pregnancy, maternity and birth experience, or those whose babies are admitted to the neonatal inpatient unit.

This will include those experiencing birth trauma, pregnancy-related anxiety and baby loss and bereavement

Provide a specialised and experienced psychological therapy service for patients with the most complex /challenging presentations, by assessing and treating own specialist caseload of patients, plus maintaining associated records. Provide this service across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.

Provide supervision and reflective practice space to both staff in psychology roles (e.g. Assistant Psychologist) and non-psychology colleagues (e.g. specialist midwives)

Offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to multidisciplinary teams, including medical, surgical and ward-based teams Liaise with relevant external services (e.g. Perinatal mental Health services, safeguarding teams).

Provide teaching and training (e.g. on DClin Psy; to wider maternity staff) Promote and assist the development of a trauma informed culture of care within wider maternity services

Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • Meets all Specialist Psychological Therapist
  • Meets all Clinical Counselling Psychologist

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 1 November 2026

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