Job overview
We are delighted to be offering a 1 Band 7 Clinical Psychology development post within our Adult Inpatients Service (Shoredrift and Springrise wards) based at Hopewood Park Hospital, Sunderland and are looking for enthusiastic Clinical Psychologists to provide specialist psychological input on our wards. We welcome applications from both current Band 7s and current final year trainees. Previous experience of working in an inpatient setting either pre/during or post clinical psychology training is desirable but not essential.
Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services provide multi-disciplinary care using a biopsychosocial model for service users over the age of 18. The acute service provides care for service users with acute mental health needs who require assessment and treatment in hospital.Service users admitted to hospital are often highly complex and have a range of experiences and difficulties including neurodiversity, psychosis, personality difficulties and learning difficulties, risk to self and others, forensic issues and behaviours that challenge.
Main duties of the job
The post involves providing expertise in applying specialist psychological assessment, including cognitive assessments, collaborative formulation and interventions with service users and working with multi-disciplinary teams to embed formulation and trauma informed care. This includes individual and group based work and involvement of families and carers. It will involve supporting MDT staff working with service users through supervision, team formulation, contributing to understanding complex risk, developing behaviour support plans and providing reflective practice and training to teams. The development of the enhanced MDT (EMDT) in inpatient services may mean involvement in the wider remit of ward-based tasks.
The role may also involve research, service evaluation and audit. All of the wards have Higher Assistant Psychologist time and this offers opportunity for the development of skills in supervision and line management.
The post holder will be supported to enable them to progress to Band 8a within 2 years of having been in a Band 7 role. This will require successful completion of a mutually agreed development plan, demonstration of the experience, skills, knowledge and competencies required and confirmation of their suitability to progress by an assessment panel.
If the requirements are not fully achieved within 2 years the post holder will remain as a Band 7 and this outcome will be managed as part of the contract conditions agreed with the post holder at the outset
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 4th June 2026
Closing date : 18th June 2026
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This advert is for Clinical Psychologist with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Band 7-8a development post. The contract type is Permanent: Band 7-8a development post. The application deadline is 18 Jun 2026.
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