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: 13th June 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:
1. Flexible working hours
2. Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
3. Multi Faith prayer room
4. Discounted gym memberships
5. Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
6. Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
7. Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
8. Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
9. On-site Nursery
10. On-site cafes offering staff discounts
11. Support in career development
12. Flexible staff bank
13. Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
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
14. Good honours degree in psychology.
Experience
Essential
15. Undergraduate level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as used by the profession
Desirable
16. Previous experience of working with the client group or in clinical health psychology
Skills
Essential
17. 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.
18. Ability to use statistical packages, databases and spreadsheets.
Desirable
19. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
20. Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
21. Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion