Assistant Psychologist
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the job posting.
Key content:
- Employer heading: description of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (overview). Could be "About the role" or "About the organisation". The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use "About the role" for overview of role and organization.
- Job Overview: includes details: substantive Assistant Psychologist post working in new Maternal Mental Health Service within Paediatric and Women’s Health Psychology service at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust. Post available on 0.6 wte basis. Service description, opportunities for professional development, CPD, supervision, collaboration, links with doctorate courses, supporting qualified staff, developing clinical pathways, service evaluation, patient participation.
- Interview Date Thursday 19 November 202622 Hours 30 Minutes/Week (looks garbled: maybe Interview Date Thursday 19 November 2026, 22 Hours 30 Minutes/Week? Actually "Interview Date Thursday 19 November 202622 Hours 30 Minutes/Week". Probably a mistake; but we should not include boilerplate like interview date? It's not a section heading; we could include in a short paragraph under About the role? But instruction: remove duplicated lines, cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Interview date maybe not needed but it's substantive? It's about interview schedule. Might be considered metadata; but we can include as a short p under About the role? However they said do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Interview date is metadata; we could drop it or include in a p. Probably drop as not essential. - "You will be redirected to Trac to apply..." etc is application instruction, remove. - "NO AGENCIES PLEASE" remove. - Main duties of the job: list bullet points. - Working for our organisation: flexible working friendly, etc. Could be part of Benefits? Actually it's about flexible working arrangement. Could be under Benefits or maybe under About the role. - List of sites where they deliver care: could be under About the role. - Staff Benefits: mention "Please see attached information on attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’". No explicit benefits listed in text; we cannot invent. So we should NOT create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It only mentions see attached document; no details given. So we should not include Benefits section. - Pay: not mentioned. So no Pay section. - Schedule: mention "0.6 wte basis" (0.6 whole-time equivalent) and "22 Hours 30 Minutes/Week"? Actually 0.6 wte likely about 22.5 hours per week (assuming 37.5h FT). So we have schedule info: 0.6 wte (part-time). That's specific. So we can include a Schedule section with that info. - Person specification: Training & Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge And Skills, Other criteria. This maps to Requirements, Qualifications, Skills sections. We need to decide which headings to use. We have: - Training & Qualifications: Essential criteria: Single honours degree (upper second class or higher) in psychology. Desirable: Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology. - Experience: Essential: Paid or voluntary experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist or alongside a Clinical Psychologist; Computer literate with experience of using Microsoft Office and statistical packages for data analysis; Experience of conducting literature searches and reviews. Desirable: Experience of working with patient groups with psychological difficulties; Experience of working with groups. - Knowledge And Skills: Essential: Knowledge of developmental processes from childhood to old age; Understanding the needs of individuals with psychological difficulties; Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge and skills to a healthcare setting; Understanding of issues relating to confidentiality; High level communication skills (written and verbal) including ability to communicate and work in settings which may be highly emotive. Desirable: Understanding of the psychological needs of patients; Presentation skills; High level report writing. - Other: Essential: Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively; Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post; Evidence of continued professional development. Desirable: A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology. We need to output sections: maybe Responsibilities (main duties), Requirements (maybe combine experience and qualifications?), Qualifications (training & qualifications), Skills (knowledge and skills). Could also have "About the role" for overview. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract substantive paragraphs: About the role / organization: - Employer heading: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. Around 16,000 staff, annual budget £1.7bn. Strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally, internationally; top five providers of specialised health services. Provide wide range of hospital and community services; support people with rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic disorders. Committed to promoting equality and diversity; inclusive environment; value diversity of employees; aim to recruit workforce reflecting communities served; welcome all applications irrespective of protected characteristics; particularly those from under-represented groups. Newcastle Hospitals proud to be exemplar organisation across NHS on sustainability, with long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and first healthcare organisation in world to declare a climate emergency. Strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030 for direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will need help of every team member. - Job Overview: Opportunity for substantive Assistant Psychologist post working in new Maternal Mental Health Service within Paediatric and Women’s Health Psychology service at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust. Post available on 0.6 wte basis. Paediatric and women’s health psychology service is thriving department, committed to child and family centred care. Opportunities for professional development through regular CPD, involvement in service improvement projects, and supervision. Service part of wider department of Psychology in Healthcare, enabling collaboration and support with adult psychology colleagues. Close links with doctorate clinical psychology courses at Newcastle and Teeside Universities. Post will involve supporting qualified staff who will be seeing women and birthing people under care of NUTH Maternity Services for assessment and therapy. Brand new service; post holder will work closely with team to develop clinical pathways, robust processes for service evaluation, developing Patient Participation and Involvement in developing the new service. - Interview date etc (maybe drop). - Main duties of the job: list bullet points. - Working for our organisation: flexible working friendly organisation; want to accommodate flexible working arrangement; speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate; if works for service, will do best to make it work for you. With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, deliver care from list of sites: 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 flagship services delivering cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. 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 Patient/Client Group. - Detailed job description and main responsibilities: To support in the delivery of psychological interventions for people whose mental health has been significantly impacted e.g. by birth trauma, perinatal loss, or tokophobia. - Key Relationships: Work closely with the 8B Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist and under supervision of the Band 8a Clinical Psychologist/Specialist Psychology Therapist in Psychology in Healthcare. Be an active part of a multi-disciplinary team. - Geographical Location/Boundaries: This post will be based mainly on the Royal Victoria Infirmary site but will be expected to work across NUTH facilities depending on patient and service need. - Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are forward thinking... use of Third-Party AI presents risk to integrity of Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses risk to integrity of your individual application or recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage. (This is a warning; maybe we should remove as it's like a scam-warning boilerplate? It's about AI use in application; could be considered boilerplate but it's specific to this posting. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. This is a scam-warning about AI use; likely should be removed. - Person specification sections as above. - Important note on completion of reference section: All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover minimum 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing reference section of application form, please give address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete may result in application not being processed. Note it is a requirement that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. Method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay. Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful. (This is application instruction; should be removed.) - Employer certification / accreditation badges: Applicant requirements: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. (Legal boilerplate; remove.) - Documents to download: JD & PS (PDF...), Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF...), Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF...). (These are links; remove.) - Apply online now etc (remove.) - Further details / informal visits contact: Name Evelyn Jannetta, Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Email e.jannetta@nhs.net, Telephone 0191 2824081. This is contact info; could be considered metadata; maybe we can include as a short p under About the role? But instruction: do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Contact info is minor metadata; we could include a short p. We need to preserve all substantive information; contact info maybe not substantive for the role but could be considered metadata. I'd lean to drop it as not essential to job description. However the instruction says "fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we could include a short p with contact info if we want. But better to drop to keep concise. Now we need to decide sections. Potential sections: - About the role (or About the organisation): combine employer overview and job overview. - Responsibilities: main duties list + detailed job description + key relationships + geographical location. - Requirements: maybe combine experience and qualifications? But we have separate Qualifications and Skills sections recommended. Let's follow the suggested headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only those with real content