• Job Description

  Req#: C9234-23-0424

  Job summary

  ***12 Month Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity***

  We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist, to take up a new role working with the Critical Care team at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital. It is an exciting opportunity to set up a new service supporting patients in intensive care and their families.

  The Critical Care Complex is a 28 bedded unit, with a multi-disciplinary staff team of consultants, specialist nurses and other AHPs. There has not previously been a dedicated clinical psychologist in Critical Care, although the team have benefitted from input from the mental health liaison team.

  An important component of this role will be to identify the priorities for how to use the psychology hours most effectively, liaising with key stake holders, identifying referral criteria, and collecting data to demonstrate the value of the role. There is significant clinical interest in creating a substantive role in this area, so the data you collect will form part of a future business case for psychology in Critical Care.

  Interview Date: 6th July 2023

  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

  Main duties of the job

  The inpatient work will follow the patient's journey from theatre, recovery, intensive care and follow-up after discharge for those who are struggling with adjustment. Clinical referrals might include support related to delirium, mood symptoms, cognitive impairment, and symptoms of psychological trauma.

  There is a possible role for offering staff support within the unit, and this could be explored once in post.

  We would be happy to accept applications from candidates looking for a secondment from their existing role.

  We want to become a more diverse and inclusive department; therefore we welcome and actively encourage applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds, with different lived and learned experiences.

  There is a wide range of staff benefits at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital including access to our wellbeing resources and services, a Fast Track physiotherapy service, contribution toward eye tests and glasses, in house training programs and leadership management courses and flexible working hours wherever possible.

  Norwich is voted one of the Best Places to Live in the UK by The Sunday Times 2021. It provides the perfect balance between city, countryside and coastline, with picturesque beaches within a 30-minute drive. Norwich is a UNESCO city of literature, with many independent cafes, restaurants, and shops. It has excellent transport links to Cambridge and London, affordable housing, and award-winning schools.

  About us

  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

  Date posted

  15 June 2023

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8b

  Salary

  £58,972 to £68,525 a year per annum (pro rata)

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

  Reference number

  234-22-S3543

  Job locations

  Norfolk and Norwich University Hopsital

  Norwich

  NR4 7UY

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Honours degree in psychology
  • Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • 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

  • Significant proven assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

  Skills

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Honours degree in psychology
  • Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • 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

  • Significant proven assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

  Skills

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

  Address

  Norfolk and Norwich University Hopsital

  Norwich

  NR4 7UY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://teamnnuh.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

  Address

  Norfolk and Norwich University Hopsital

  Norwich

  NR4 7UY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://teamnnuh.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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