Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: This position is primarily for an 8A, but we will consider a preceptorship at band 7 or a Band 6 for newly qualified pre HCPC registration
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 234-24-CS0117-B
- Employer
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £35,392 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit two enthusiastic Clinical Psychologists to join our supportive Paediatric psychology team, to serve the needs of young people and their families with long term conditions.
We would be very pleased to hear from applicants who are interested in full-time hours- 37.5hrs per week, or part-time hours of 22.5 hours per week or more.
Although this is a band 8A post, it is also open to newly qualified psychologists as a band 7 as part of our 18 month preceptorship. Newly qualified staff who are yet to be HCPC registered would temporarily be appointed on Band 6. Experience in Paediatrics is desirable but not absolutely necessary, but a passion for working with children, young people and their families is essential.
We are looking for psychologists to cover the paediatric specialties of Epilepsy, Gastroenterology and Rheumatology.
Our Epilepsy psychology service has been recently commissioned to support the psychological needs of young people with Epilepsy and non-epileptic seizures, and also consists of a Principal Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Psychologist.
The Gastroenterology psychology service is well-established and covers Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), specializing in Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease. The Rheumatology psychology service is also well embedded within the Multi-Disciplinary Team, providing support for young people with conditions such as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).
Interview date: 14th August 2024
Main duties of the job
The posts will include work with children, young people and their families on psychological issues, such as the impact of a long-term condition and the challenges associated with managing this. This will include outpatient and inpatient assessment and therapy for families, as well as offering advice, consultation and training to the wider team.
Being a strong team player is essential, working well as an integrated part of different multidisciplinary teams, consisting of Consultant Physicians, specialist nurses, dieticians and physiotherapists.
There are exciting opportunities to help to develop and shape these psychology services. The post holders will have opportunities to supervise colleagues, trainees, work with initiatives within the wider department and complete audit and research projects.
We welcome any interested applicants to contact us to find out more about these roles and ask applicants to specify on their application if there are particular specialties, or hours per week, that you are interested in working.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, friendly and supportive psychology and multi-disciplinary team in the Paediatric Department at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. We have a team of Clinical Psychologists working in the Paediatric specialties of Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Cystic Fibrosis, Oncology, Rheumatology, NICU and Childhood excessive weight; with ambition to expand.
There are strong links with the Doctorate programme at the University of East Anglia. The NNUH is committed to strengthening its specialist services across the range of acute services, including developing the as a regionally recognised tertiary children’s Hospital.
Please see the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities. The document contains the Band 8a, Band 7 and Band 6 job descriptions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctorate (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in Clinical Psychology
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Louise Morgan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 287545
- Additional information
Dr Aaron Burgess,
Principal Clinical Psychologist and lead for NICU. [email protected]
Linda Fish, Lead Admin Support for Clinical Psychology: [email protected]
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