Neonatal Clinical Psychologist

Employer James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site James Paget University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Town Gorleston Salary £53,755 – £60,504 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/06/2025 23:59

Neonatal Clinical Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children’s service.
Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:

• Putting patients first
• Aiming to get it right
• Recognising that everybody counts
• Doing everything openly and honestly

‘Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England\’

Job overview

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, autonomous and highly skilled Clinical Psychologistto join the new Paediatric Clinical Psychology Team at James Paget University Hospital, Gorleston.

Suitable candidates, currently at Band 7, would be considered as a development post.

Main duties of the job

With this new post you will form part of a growing Clinical Psychology team; with interesting opportunities to be involved in service development, innovation, improvement and team working, as we expand the areas of paediatrics we cover at the hospital. You will be part of a dedicated team, who already work alongside the multidisciplinary paediatric teams at JPUH within the specialities of diabetes, epilepsy, functional neurological disorders, gastroenterology, orthopaedics and general paediatrics. This new post will focus on psychology expansion into the Level One, Special Care Neonatal Unit at JPUH. Working with the existing multidisciplinary team, who are very keen to welcome a Clinical Psychologist onto the Team.

We are a small Paediatric Clinical Psychology team that offers excellent opportunities for professional support and development. We always have trainees on placement with us from local ClinPsyD programmes; for core placements, specialist placements and research. This post would also be supported by a well-established wider network of Clinical Psychologists working in neonatal units in the East of the Region.

Working for our organisation

We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and person specification for further details of main responsibilities

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• • Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• • Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
• • Eligible for Full Membership of the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology.
• • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in other fields of applied psychology
• • Post-qualification training in approaches and therapies appropriate for the Neonatal context e.g. working with attachment, trauma, systems/ family therapy and bereavement

Knowledge and Experience

• • Specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
• • Undertaking psychological assessment and interventions relating Neonatal service area
• • Working with a wide variety of patient groups within this specialism, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• • Representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• • Working clinically in health and medical settings relevant to service area.
• • Working effectively with other professionals in multidisciplinary settings.
• • Experience working psychologically with a client group or in a setting relevant to Neonatal Psychology e.g. Paediatrics, Infant mental health, working with families, Perinatal or Maternity settings.
• • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• • Experience of line managing psychological staff
• • Experience of working through an interpreter

Skills and Knowledge

• • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and neuropsychological assessment intervention and management.
• • Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• • Good time management and prioritisation skills
• • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
‘Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England\’

Tier 2 Sponsorship :We are pleased to consider applicants who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK but it is unlikely that we would be able to appoint if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled UK/Right to work candidate is available. Applying for entry clearance into the UK, must provide 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) will also be subject to this requirement.

Visa and Immigration

If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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