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About
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of acute clinical services for a catchment area of up over 1 million people. Our vision is “to provide every patient with the care we want for those we love the most”, reflecting the utmost importance that we attach to the quality of care and experience that each and every one of our patients receives.
We provide specialist services in radiotherapy, neonatalogy, paediatrics, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, rheumatology, medicine and surgery. Every year our 7,000 staff treat people from Norfolk, neighbouring counties and further afield. Our patients are referred to us by around 100 local GP surgeries and other acute hospitals and primary care Trusts around the country. We are involved in the teaching and training of a wide range of health professionals, in partnership with the University of East Anglia and other local education providers.
Principal Clinical Psychologist - Macmillan
Accepting applications until: 14-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 14-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Postcode
- NR4 7UY
- Major / Minor Region
- Norfolk
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity for 2 years)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Oncology
- Interview date
- 03/09/2024
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
Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity for 2 years
We are delighted to advertise a new 2-year fixed term vacancy to establish a Clinical Psychology service for cancer patients at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, funded by Macmillan. Your employment will be hosted at NNUH where you would join the existing Clinical Psychology team, which is a small team working within several areas of adult and paediatric health psychology. The psychology team at NNUH meet monthly, and you would have access to clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist at NNUH. You will be line managed by a Clinical Psychologist but would be based within the Oncology directorate, supported by the wider Oncology teams.
We are recruiting across the region to place a Band 8b Clinical Psychologist in each of the 3 Trusts, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and James Paget University Hospital, as part of a collaborative approach to ensure equity of access for our cancer patients. We would expect the 3 post holders to work closely together to facilitate this. You will be developing a new psycho-oncology service at NNUH and contributing collaboratively to an existing service at QEH and a new service at JPUH.
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
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This role will include direct clinical work supporting cancer patients as inpatients and outpatients across NNUH where both individual and group work might be clinically appropriate. You would also join MDT discussions across cancer body sites. Job planning would include clinical time at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital and possibly Cromer District Hospital. Other opportunities for identifying community venues for clinical work may be explored later.
In addition to clinical work, there will be a focus on establishing a working model for service provision which equitably provides access to psychology across the region and integrates into existing support services within cancer. Service user involvement will be key and contribute to the process of establishing the new service. A quantitative and qualitative service evaluation will be needed to support the service continuing past the 2 years.
There will be administrative support available and a laptop to support a hybrid combination of working at the hospital sites and working from home.
The postholder will be providing line management and clinical supervision for the Psychology Assistant postholder.
Your role will be supported by 0.4wte band 4 Psychology Assistant, and the successful postholder will lead on the recruitment to that post.
We would be happy to consider a candidate taking a secondment from their existing role.
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
- To be responsible for providing a highly specialist systematic and autonomous clinical psychology service, within the specialist area, in accordance with objectives agreed with service and professional managers. The post will require independent management of caseload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To provide a clinical service to other specialties, as agreed with the Service Manager for Clinical Psychology.
- To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care to reach a psychological formulation of the client’s difficulties. The post will require manipulation of highly specialist equipment for neuropsychological and psychometric assessments of ability and performance. Assessments will also require the systematic observation, recording, analysis and interpretation of complex visual material.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and management for clients in the service and their families with accompanying psychological difficulties, including clients with highly complex clinical presentations and histories. Treatment to be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based methods.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups (where appropriate) within and across settings employed individually and systemically, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To provide specialist assessments of clients presenting with cognitive impairment due to a variety of causes or organic conditions, including pre-assessment counselling and neuropsychological and functional screening assessments, and to be able to adjust psychological interventions accordingly or to refer on to more appropriate services.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
The Job Description, which includes a Person Specification, provides a full outline of responsibilities and requirements for this role. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how you meet the person specification.
Travelling to work
Staff parking is available onsite; however, this is limited during core working hours. We have more capacity in the evening and at weekends and can usually provide spaces during those hours.
We look to allocate these spaces fairly. Our Travel Office have a set of criteria that staff must meet in order to qualify. If you qualify for a space, you may be placed on a waiting list if we are at full capacity.
The NNUH is served by a number of public buses, and we offer generously discounted monthly passes with First Bus & Konect.
The Costessey Park and Ride runs regularly each day from 06:30 (from P&R) to 20:45 (from NNUH) and this service is free for NHS staff. There is a regular Thickthorn P&R service as well which is free. Applications to the Travel Office are required for this service. We also have a discounted service from the airport P&R if you purchase a bundle. Please see Konect website for further details.
The NNUH host multiple bicycle racks and a salary sacrifice scheme. We also benefit from a Beryl station onsite.
If you work at another Trust site, please discuss travel and parking arrangements at interview.
DBS
If this post involves working with children or adults the application form will ask for information regarding previous convictions as you will be required to undertake a Criminal Record and Barring Check known as a DBS check.
If you are a new employee or registering with the Staff Bank you will need to meet the cost of this unless your salary is less than point 9 of Afc
NHS Service
Should you be appointed to the post we will need to establish any previous NHS service via the ESR IAT and we will accept the submission of your application as your agreement to this.
UK Registration
You will need to have current UK professional registration where this is a requirement of the role.
Application
Following candidate feedback and to reduce our dependency on paper, all our communication with you regarding your application will be by email so could you please check your e-mails (and Spam) regularly.
We value equality in our team and recruit from all sections of the community. We recognise there is a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and if you meet the minimum criteria detailed in the person specification and have a disability, you may wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme by indicating this in the relevant section on your application.
We look forward to receiving your application and if you do not hear within the next four weeks this will usually mean that you have not been short-listed. However, if you wish to confirm this please contact the person indicated on the advert.
Flexibility
Whilst every effort will be made to recruit to the post as it is advertised, there may be occasions where we consider alternative working patterns, such as part time working, or contract types, such as secondments, depending on circumstances. Should you wish to work in a different working pattern to that stated in our advertisement, please indicate this in the supporting statement to your application.
Useful Information
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Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Website
Video - Working at NNUH as a Registered Nurse
Video - Working at NNUH as a Health Care Assistant
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctorate (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in Clinical Psychology recognised as eligible for registration as a Practitioner Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professional Council.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a Clinical Health setting
- Significant proven assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Paula Christmas
- Job title
- Lead for Adult Clinical Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Jo Richardson
Lead Cancer Nurse
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