Macmillan Assistant Psychologist | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£28,392 - £31,157 per annum (pro rata)
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Norwich, NR4 7UY
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	26 Aug 2026
Closing date:	25 Sept 2026

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Summary

Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity until 1st June 2027

We are delighted to advertise this position for a Macmillan Assistant Psychologist to join the 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.

As the successful applicant, you 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, you will work alongside the Clinical Psychologist to support the development of a substantive psycho-oncology service at NNUH. The role will also contribute to collaborative working with cancer services 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.

The service currently offers outpatient psychological assessment and intervention, alongside staff support consultation and training.

Interview date: to be confirmed.

• contribute to a range of service development activities, including service evaluation, clinical audit and quality improvement projects to support a business case for funding of the service longer term.

• provide administrative support to the Clinical Psychologist, including assisting with referral triage, gathering relevant clinical information, maintaining patient activity records and supporting the management of the service database.

Working under the supervision of the qualified psychologist, and depending on experience and competencies, there will be opportunities to contribute to the delivery of clinical care of patients, which may take the form of supporting delivery of groups, individual intervention, contributing to staff support and assisting with psychologically informed care across the service.

The Assistant 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.

The post holder will gain valuable experience to contribute to a career in clinical psychology

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

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.

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

• Undertaking administrative duties to support the psycho-oncology service, preparing resources and overseeing and monitoring patient activity and databases.

• Contributing to service evaluation, clinical audit, quality improvement and research projects, including collecting, analysing and presenting data to inform service development.

• Working within professional guidelines and under the direct supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist to help deliver, support and enhance the psychological care of people affected by cancer.

• Supporting the development of psychologically informed practice by assisting with the preparation and delivery of teaching, training and consultation for multidisciplinary staff in NNUH and collaboratively with cancer services across the region.

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.

All applicants need to be eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartered (GBC) membership with British Psychological Society (BPS). This is a standard set by BPS to ensure that psychology has been studied in enough breadth.

Please state on your application form how you can evidence eligibility for GBC. If you don’t let us know your GBC eligibility it may affect our ability to review your application at the shortlisting stage.

Full time (37.5 hours)- flexible working will be considered.

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.

This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Sep 2026

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