Consultant Clinical NeuropsychologistNHS

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist to provide clinical and professional leadership within Neuro Oncology, with a specialist focus on the Awake Craniotomy pathway. This senior role offers the opportunity to lead and shape a highly specialised neuropsychology service, supporting adults with brain tumours and epilepsy across the full surgical pathway--from pre-operative assessment and preparation, through intra-operative cognitive monitoring, to post-operative rehabilitation and outcome evaluation. The post holder will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care in a complex, high-risk neurosurgical context, while contributing to service development, governance, and strategic planning. We are looking for an individual with extensive post-qualification experience in neuropsychology within neurological or neurosurgical settings, who brings advanced expertise in complex assessment and intervention, alongside strong leadership skills and the ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will be confident operating autonomously at consultant level, committed to maintaining high clinical standards, and motivated to drive innovation, workforce development and service improvement within a dynamic and evolving specialty.

Main duties of the job

• 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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Job description

Takes responsibility for neuropsychology provision within the Awake Craniotomy and Neurooncology ServiceIs expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex presentations within the Awake Craniotomy and Neurooncology Service.Is required to provide management and supervision of recently qualified clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.Will be expected to develop and innovate methods in service provision for people with primary brain tumours and to support staff, relatives and, were appropriate, other services in providing care to this group of patients.Providing specialist neuropsychological and clinical psychological assessment, formulation and therapy, including awake craniotomyOffering advice and consultation on patients neuropsychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

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.

About us

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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