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Job requirements
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Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills and Competencies
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Skills and Competencies
Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions
- Skills and Competencies
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills and Competencies
Well-developed teaching & training skills.
- Skills and Competencies
Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills and Competencies
Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
- Skills and Competencies
Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process.
- Knowledge and Experience
Specialist knowledge, skills and experience of assessment, formulation, reformulation and intervention with adults with complex mental health difficulties
- Knowledge and Experience
Specialist knowledge, skills and competencies in understanding, formulating and working with severe personality difficulties
- Knowledge and Experience
Specialist knowledge, skills and experience of assessment and management of risk in relation to people with complex psychological presentations and personality disorder.
- Knowledge and Experience
Training in Structured Clinical Management, including delivery and supervision of SCM, DBT and/or MBT treatment approaches
- Knowledge and Experience
Highly developed knowledge and experience of trauma informed care and approaches utilised for trauma stabilisation
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstrated ability and highly developed specialist teaching, training, consultancy, supervision and leadership skills.
- Knowledge and Experience
The ability to contribute to service planning and development in Specialist Psychological Therapies, as appropriate.
- Education and Qualifications
Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society/An Honours Degree in Psychology recognised for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society, or RMN, or equivalent degree level qualification in mental health and Post-graduate qualifications in psychological assessment and psychological therapy (e.g. Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, Post-graduate diploma in CBT, IAPT High Intensity CBT diploma).
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Experience
Advanced knowledge, delivery and supervision of Structured Clinical Management practitioners, including its adaptions
- Knowledge and Experience
Training in and experience of implementing and supervising DBT or MBT
- Knowledge and Experience
Training, knowledge and experience of complex trauma and dissociative disorders and their treatment/management
- Knowledge and Experience
Specialist training in the assessment of personality difficulties (e.g. IPDE, SCID5- PD)
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and resilient principal clinical psychologist or principal psychological therapist to join the Personality Disorder Hub. The role will suit candidates who thrive in roles which include variety, complexity and challenge alongside opportunities for growth.
The Hub team comprises a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychological therapists, an occupational therapist and community practitioners. There are also plans to expand the team further with the introduction of a speech and language therapist. The team provide the following:
Ø Care co-ordination and treatment for a limited number of service users who present with significant personality difficulties, have co-existing conditions alongside a high risk to self.
Ø Evidence-based psychological therapies - predominantly Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and trauma stabilisation, whilst drawing strongly on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT). These are delivered in adapted form during the most unstable phase of a service users care pathway. The focus is on providing safety, stabilisation, containment and emotional regulation.
Ø Scaffolding (indirect joint working, governance and training) to other CNTW staff who are also working with service users presenting with personality difficulties.
Main duties of the job
The key elements of the role will be:
- providing specialist assessment, consultation and adapted treatment to adult service users with severe personality difficulties, complexity and high levels of risk to self
- developing and embedding complex formulations with service users and team members
- enhancing and embedding trauma informed care for individuals with co-morbid personality difficulties, complex trauma and dissociative disorders
- providing supervision, advice and consultation to team members, colleagues in other services, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment of people with personality difficulties
- leading on team training, supervision and evaluation
- providing scaffolding on complex systemic dynamics to other teams, across pathways and the organisation (e.g. attendance at complex case panels) under the guidance of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- proactively leading on service evaluation, development and appropriate service work streams
- clinical co-ordinator role (enhancing pathway co-ordination, adherence and throughput through the system, including leading on waiting list management, processing of referrals and other service clinical matters)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 25th August 2026
Closing date : 8th September 2026
We welcome your application.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Principal Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 pro rata per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Sep 2026.
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