Job summary
Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity until 1st June 2027

We are delighted to advertise vacancy for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Macmillan funded psycho-oncology service at NNUH. Our service takes a compassionate and person-centered approach to provide specialist psychological support to adults (aged 18 and over) experiencing complex psychological difficulties relating to their diagnosis or treatment, at all stages of the cancer pathway.

The successful applicant will be based at NNUH working within adult services, and will be joining the existing Clinical Psychology team, a small supportive team working across a range of adult and paediatric health psychology specialities. The psychology team meet monthly for professional support and development. The post holder will receive line management and supervision from the Macmillan Clinical Psychologist.

Based within the Oncology Department, the post holder will work alongside the Clinical Psychologist to support the development of a substantive psycho-oncology service at NNUH. The role will also work closely with the service lead to develop psychology services in cancer care across the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group, including James Paget University Hospital, to improve psychological care and support for staff and people affected by cancer across the region.

Interview date: to be confirmed

Main duties of the job
The service currently offers outpatient psychological assessment and intervention (group and individual) for people affected by cancer alongside staff support, consultation, teaching and training.

The Clinical Psychologist will be an integral member of the Macmillan funded Psycho-oncology service at NNUH working along side the wider oncology team of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to optimise the care and wellbeing of people affected by cancer.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Working as part of the cancer MDT providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention for patients at NNUH affected by cancer, through individual and group working.
• Supporting the delivery of supervision, consultation and teaching to hospital-based level 2 practitioners, including clinical nurse specialists and AHP's, as well as providing support to other staff within oncology services and the wider hospital cancer care team at NNUH and James Paget Hospital services as appropriate.
• Contributing to service evaluation, clinical audit, quality improvement and research projects, including collecting, analysing and presenting data to inform service development.
• Working closely with the service lead to support the development of a business case for substantive funding of the psycho-oncology service at NNUH and increasing psychologically informed cancer care across the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals group

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 at NNUH Colney Lane site
• 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 Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Job responsibilities
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.

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

• Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

Experience
Essential

• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Some relevant pre-qualification experience and a variety of clinical placements during training

Skills
Essential

• A high level ability to communicate effectively (both written and oral) complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

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

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.

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).

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 Hospital
Norwich
NR4 7UY
United Kingdom

Employer's website
https://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Psychologist
Beth Roughsedge
Beth.roughsedge@nnuh.nhs.uk

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