Job summary
We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist, to provide a psychology service to the Cystic Fibrosis multi-disciplinary team at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital. The previous Clinical Psychology post-holders have worked hard to establish a role for psychology which both meets the clinical needs of the population and the CF team.
The Cystic Fibrosis service is based in Respiratory Medicine at NNUH, with a small well-established multi-discilplinary team. You would be the sole psychology clinician, aiming to develop the psychology input to the team, and to carry out individual assessments and ongoing therapeutic input with inpatients and outpatients.
You will join a small team of Clinical Psychologists working in the Trust, in both adult and paediatric specialities, and there are opportunities for peer supervision/ support in addition to joint working with psychologists based in other departments. You will be supervised by an experienced Clinical Psychologist within the Trust.
There is a possibility that the psychology provision to this service will increase in future in line with growth of the size of the local CF population.
We currently have some other vacant roles within psychology at NNUH and these Cystic Fibrosis hours could be paired with other vacancies to form a larger post or a full-time post. Please get in contact with us if you would like to consider options.
Main duties of the job
The role includes offering 1:1 therapy in an outpatient and inpatient setting, as well as attending a multidisciplinary clinic and completing an annual psychology review with each patient as part of the national standards of care for Cystic Fibrosis. There are opportunities for offering consultancy, teaching and involvement in research.
The post holder will liaise with the paediatric CF team in order to support the transition of patients from paediatrics to adult services and liaise with wider teams involved in patient care as appropriate. There is an active and supportive group of psychologists working in this clinical specialism via the UK Psychosocial Professionals in Cystic Fibrosis.
We would be willing to consider applications from applicants with experience in health psychology settings, and also those who haven't had health psychology experience. Newly qualified staff would be appointed at a Band 6 prior to registration with HCPC or BABCP, and at Band 7 following registration.
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.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide high quality psychological therapy in the relevant clinical department.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- 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 or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan of clients with medical conditions.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients in the specialty, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as case manager, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of treatment plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide high quality psychological therapy in the relevant clinical department.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- 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 or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan of clients with medical conditions.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients in the specialty, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as case manager, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of treatment plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised professional qualification in Clinical/Counselling/ Health Psychology and registered with HCPC
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist or Psychological Therapist in a related setting e.g. clinical health psychology or adult mental health.
Skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised professional qualification in Clinical/Counselling/ Health Psychology and registered with HCPC
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist or Psychological Therapist in a related setting e.g. clinical health psychology or adult mental health.
Skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or 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
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.
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
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.
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).
