Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Senior Psychological Therapist to work within the Acute Inpatient Psychological Services team at St George's Park hospital, Morpeth.



The Acute Inpatient Service at St George's Park consists of two male wards and one female ward of 19 beds each.



Within inpatient services, we hold the value of being creative and very much welcome new and improved processes and ideas. The service has a strong commitment to CPD and professional development, and we want to nurture each clinician in their career longer term.



You will be joining the Psychological Services Inpatient team who work across Acute, Rehabilitation and Older Adult inpatient wards. Our team is made up of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Art Psychotherapists and Assistant Psychologists. We also have a therapy dog in the service. We are a friendly, inclusive and diverse group of practitioners who bring a range of interests, experience and skills to the work we do. The Psychology team is well embedded into the respective wards within each pathway but are also located together in terms of office space at St George's Park which means that we maintain strong working relationships with each other across pathways as well.



We welcome informal conversations about the post.

The post-holder will have the opportunity to:

Provide specialist psychological assessments (including neuropsychological assessment) and interventions with service users experiencing a broad range of mental health problems. Facilitate team supervision/ reflective practice and debriefs. Utilise research skills to design and conduct evaluations of the service. It is anticipated that these will lead to peer-reviewed publications. Design and deliver training to ward-based staff and MDT colleagues specifically relevant to their needs. Provide supervision to and support to MDT staff and a Higher Assistant Psychologist.

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.



Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date :

25 th September 2025

Closing date :

9 th October 2025



We welcome your application.