Clinical PsychologistNHS

Job summary

We wish to recruit an enthusiastic and creative Clinical Psychologist to join the Older Adult Community Team in Newcastle. This post will largely be based at St Nicholas Hospital in Gosforth. The post is a 0.6wte permanent post at Band 7. The person appointed will be working within the Newcastle Older Adult Community Treatment Team and Memory Service across Newcastle and parts of North Tyneside. We are a vibrant multi-disciplinary team consisting of mental health nurses, OTs, psychiatrists, mental health wellbeing practitioners, physiotherapists and support workers. The psychology team offers a range of therapeutic interventions, including CAT, CBT, DBT, EMDR, family therapy, formulation and neuropsychological assessment, to support older people and their families with both functional and cognitive difficulties.

Main duties of the job

As part of the Community Treatment Team the person appointed will be providing psychological assessment, formulation and treatment for older adult clients and families experiencing a variety of complex mental health difficulties. The post holder will also work into the Memory Service, provide neuropsychological assessments for patients suspected of presenting with a dementia. In addition, there will be opportunities to support the provision of supervision and scaffolding to members of the Community Treatment Team.

Experience of working psychologically with older people with complexity and co-morbid difficulties would be an advantage. The post will provide opportunities for developing skills in teaching/training, clinical supervision, research, and involvement in service development.

The Psychology team is friendly and supportive, and embedded within a thriving network of clinicians providing services to Older Adults in Newcastle. There is a very active local BPS Faculty of the Psychology for Older People (FPoP) network. Additionally, we have close links with the Newcastle and Teesside Doctorate training courses and regularly have Trainees on placement as well as contributing to the course teaching.

Job description

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Advertising date : 2nd October 2026

Closing date : 16th October 2026

We welcome your application.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.