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See if you can find a newel post online with a Matching profile. Then mark the needed cuts up in pencil and take it to your nearest joinery shop for them to cut in 30 seconds and for about £10.
Glue and clamps until dry should hold fine
Edit: I'd be trying to match the profile by hand with some scribing as I'm a masochist.
Grumpy_Git
Pictured below is our newel post.
It has had the end sliced off, I think probably to accommodate the stair lift which the previous owner had installed.
Is there a way to restore it that's within the grasp of an amateur DIYer who doesn't even own a set of woodworking tools?
I would probably go about it by buying a piece of wood of similar width and depth, glueing and screwing it on, then cutting, planing and sanding it to something like the original shape.
Easy?