Job summary
The Adult Weight Management service in Northumbria Healthcare Trust has been identified as a service delivering a high quality service, eligible for additional funding from the Managing Obesity Programme within the context of a focus on health inequalities. In order to support the clinical work of the multi-disciplinary team and to evaluate and audit the success of the project we are looking for an Assistant Psychologist.
The delivery of clinical services is closely aligned to the NHCT's Clinical Strategy and Mental Health Strategy. The Trust values are seen as an important component of both individual's work and the design and delivery of services.
The Trust has a wide range of staff benefits, including a gym, great canteens and regular well-being offers. Last year the psychology team entered the Step into Summer Challenge and participation in the various interest and support groups in the Trust is encouraged. There are well-stocked libraries with professional staff and facilities to support study.
We are looking to hold interviews on 1st September and 2nd September 2025.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
This post holder will assist with a number of defined duties as agreed with the Clinical Service Lead (Psychologist) and the service manager.
Working under the guidance and supervision of qualified psychologists, the post holder will provide support and co-facilitation of group interventions (for example the Emotional Eating group in Adult Weight Management ).
The post holder will support the evaluation of interventions and service quality improvements, and audit the standards of the service deliveries.
There will be project work and tasks specific to the service, including participation in screening of referrals and data gathering and analysis in the AWM Managing Obesity programme. We encourage you to contact us to find out more details prior to application.
About us
We manage four major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of patients within the service,providing psychological assessments and interventions under the direct supervision of aqualified clinical psychologist.
- Working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within theoverall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To assist in clinically relatedadministration, conduct of audits, collections of statistics, development of audit/research,teaching and project work. Ensuring particular interventions are evidence-based according tothe Department of Healths evidence-based practice initiative.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of acollective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistentleadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of patients within the service,providing psychological assessments and interventions under the direct supervision of aqualified clinical psychologist.
- Working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within theoverall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To assist in clinically relatedadministration, conduct of audits, collections of statistics, development of audit/research,teaching and project work. Ensuring particular interventions are evidence-based according tothe Department of Healths evidence-based practice initiative.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of acollective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistentleadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A 1st/2level degree in Psychology (BA or BSc)
- Eligible for graduate membership of the BPS
Desirable
- Post-graduate training in a related subject or psychological model of therapy
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in research skills, including analysis of data, literature reviews, planning projects and collecting data
Desirable
- Evidence of experience in areas relevant to academic or research Psychology. Or having worked previously as a research assistant psychologist.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
- Experience of qualitative and quantitative data analysis
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A 1st/2level degree in Psychology (BA or BSc)
- Eligible for graduate membership of the BPS
Desirable
- Post-graduate training in a related subject or psychological model of therapy
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in research skills, including analysis of data, literature reviews, planning projects and collecting data
Desirable
- Evidence of experience in areas relevant to academic or research Psychology. Or having worked previously as a research assistant psychologist.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
- Experience of qualitative and quantitative data analysis
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
