Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist

• Provide consultant-level clinical leadership for Neuro Oncology neuropsychology services
• Lead and oversee neuropsychological input into the Awake Craniotomy pathway
• Deliver expert consultation on complex cases involving cognition, capacity, communication and risk
• Develop and implement clinical pathways, protocols and competency frameworks
• Ensure services meet governance, safety and quality standards
• Line manage and supervise senior neuropsychology staff, supporting workforce development
• Lead audit, evaluation and outcome monitoring to inform service improvement
• Contribute to strategic planning, business cases and service development
• Work collaboratively with neurosurgery, oncology and multidisciplinary teams
• Support education, training and dissemination of specialist expertise
• Interview Date Tuesday 10 November 2026
• 15 Hours/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

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• To ensure a high quality, comprehensive specialist clinical psychology service within the Paediatric Psychology Service.
• Ensures the strategic development of the service in collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle.
• Provides a highly specialised and experienced clinical psychology service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations.
• To propose and implement policy and service development for the psychological input to the paediatric services.
• To provide professional leadership and management. Ensuring systematic governance of the service ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of the Psychology section.
• As a major requirement of the job to be responsible for the performance management of all psychological research and development activity within the Paediatric Psychology Service including audit, policy and service development and research programmes.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

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
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• 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.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

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Essential: - Clinical post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology; - Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice with evidence of considerable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in Health Services specifically within child health services; - Up to date HCPC Registration

Desirable: - Valid driving licence

Essential: - Has significant previous experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including significant post qualification experience within paediatrics; - Has considerable experience of caseload/workload management and supervision of others; - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treatment of physical abuse; - Considerable experience of the assessment, treatment and management of care for the most complex and challenging clinical presentations; - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan; - Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision; - Experience of representing the profession in local policy/management fora; - Experience of professional management qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists; - Experience of waiting list management and service prioritisation; - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists; - Has evidence of learning and development in relation to leadership/management; - Has knowledge of good practice in recruitment and retention

Desirable: - Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty; - Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts; - Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies; - Experience of working within a multicultural framework; - Has a track record of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists; - Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books