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
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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'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Details
Date posted
28 September 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8c
Salary
£79,504 to £91,609 a year
pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
317-2026-21-045-A
Job locations
Royal Victoria Infirmary
317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
NE1 4LP
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To ensure a high quality, comprehensive specialist clinical psychology service within the Paediatric Psychology Service.
• Ensures the strategic development of the service in collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle.
• Provides a highly specialised and experienced clinical psychology service for patients with the most complex/challenging presentations.
• To propose and implement policy and service development for the psychological input to the paediatric services.
• To provide professional leadership and management. Ensuring systematic governance of the service ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of the Psychology section.
• As a major requirement of the job to be responsible for the performance management of all psychological research and development activity within the Paediatric Psychology Service including audit, policy and service development and research programmes.

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.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential

• Clinical post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice with evidence of considerable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in Health Services specifically within child health services
• Up to date HCPC Registration

Desirable

• Valid driving licence

Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Has significant previous experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including significant post qualification experience within paediatrics
• Has considerable experience of caseload/workload management and supervision of others
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treatment of physical abuse
• Considerable experience of the assessment, treatment and management of care for the most complex and challenging clinical presentations
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Experience of representing the profession in local policy/management fora
• Experience of professional management qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
• Experience of waiting list management and service prioritisation
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Has evidence of learning and development in relation to leadership/management
• Has knowledge of good practice in recruitment and retention

Desirable

• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Has a track record of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Victoria Infirmary
317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
NE1 4LP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Consultant Neuropsychologist
Dr Lisa Galloway
Lgalloway1@nhs.net
01912824081

Supporting documents
Privacy notice
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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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).