Assistant Psychologist

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

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Job summary

Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity until 31st March 2025

We are delighted to advertise a fixed term vacancy working with young adults (age 19-25) with diabetes. You would become part of the Clinical Psychology team at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which is a small team working within several areas of adult and paediatric health psychology. The psychology team meet on a monthly basis, and you would have clinical supervision from one of the two Clinical Psychologists working within diabetes.

You would be based at the Elsie Bertram Diabetes Centre at NNUH, which has a large multidisciplinary team including specialist consultants, specialist nurses, youth workers, admin, podiatrist, dieticians, eye screening staff and volunteers. The diabetes team offers outpatient appointments in addition to education and discussion sessions that are held periodically throughout the year.

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.

Interview Date: 11th April 2024

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Clinical Psychologist will be an integral member of a newly commissioned Diabetes Young Person Pilot Service, which has been funded through NHS England. The pilot team consists of consultants, nurses, dietitians, youth workers, and a young person's co-ordinator. The Clinical Psychologist in the diabetes department will supervise you and co-work with you on some of the initiatives.

The aim of this new role is to work closely with patients with diabetes aged 19-25yrs old to promote greater engagement with their diabetes care, and to promote improved physical and mental wellbeing. The pilot project is collecting data to evidence improvement in engagement, which will be fed back to the national team, and you may contribute to the data collection and analysis. The project (and therefore the role) will run until 31/3/25.

As part of your clinical work there will be opportunities to do both individual work and group work. Some of the contact may involve remote working, due to pressure on clinical space within the Elsie Bertram centre.

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

Date posted

28 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

Reference number

234-23-CS3120

Job locations

Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

Adelaide Street

Norwich

NR2 4JL

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

Good honours degree in psychology.

Experience

Essential

Undergraduate level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as used by the profession

Desirable

Previous experience of working with the client group or in clinical health psychology

Skills

Essential

Able to communicate effectively (both written and oral) complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
Ability to use statistical packages, databases and spreadsheets.

Desirable

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention

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

Good honours degree in psychology.

Experience

Essential

Undergraduate level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as used by the profession

Desirable

Previous experience of working with the client group or in clinical health psychology

Skills

Essential

Able to communicate effectively (both written and oral) complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
Ability to use statistical packages, databases and spreadsheets.

Desirable

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention

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

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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).

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