Dr Penny Netherwood

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

2026

Dr Penny Netherwood works as a consultant clinical psychologist within Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. She has worked for nearly 3 decades in services supporting children and young people with psychological and mental health difficulties. For the last five years, she has led an ambitious citywide programme, Compassionate Leeds, that supports the development of trauma-informed practice in services that work with children, young people and families in Leeds, across health, education, social care and community-based organisations. She is now working with the Leeds Mental Health Support Teams, which aim to improve access to support for children and young people, working in education settings to provide early interventions for emotional wellbeing difficulties and to build cultures that protect emotional wellbeing. Alongside these roles, she also provides trauma-informed psychological staff support to protect the wellbeing of NHS colleagues.