Job summary
Working
with the department of Critical Care team at Portsmouth Hospitals University
NHS Trust (PHU), the successful applicant will set up, develop and deliver an
embedded Clinical Psychology service supporting staff and patients.
Our
Critical Care unit admits around 1500 patients/year through the funded 19 Level
3 equivalent beds (using a maximum of 24 physical bed spaces). Our department was the first to be awarded an outstanding rating in
all domains following a CQC visit in 2015. This was retained at the most recent
inspection.
Although this post is embedded
in critical care, there will be opportunities for the post-holder to forge
links with other applied psychologists working in clinical health psychology. The hospital benefits from
links to the psychology departments of The University of
Portsmouth, which hosts a Masters Programme in Health Psychology; and the
University of Southampton, which hosts the clinical psychology doctoral
training programme (DClinPsy) for this region.
The department is forward thinking, and currently planning how we can
expand, both physically and with regards to workforce, so that we continue to
meet the future demands of the local population, particularly as we move
forwards post-pandemic. Your role as embedded
clinical psychologist within the department will be integral to our development
as a unit, enabling us to support staff, patients and their families.
Main duties of the job
Working with the senior team on Critical
Care, you will set up and develop a clinical psychology service for the
department to be able to provide clinical support for staff, patients in the
follow up clinic and selected in patients.
Support for staff.
- You
will provide psychological support to staff who work on the unit, including
supervision and reflective practice, as they deal with the after effects of the
pandemic.
-
You will help support staff psychologically in
relation to stress and burn out associated with the high intensity nature of
critical care.
Support for the critical care follow
up clinic.
- You
work alongside the lead nurse for the Critical Care follow up clinic to help
identify, signpost or provide psychological support to survivors of critical
care, and their families.
Support for inpatients on critical
care.
- You
will liaise closely with the multi disciplinary team to provide specialised
advice and consultation on patients psychological care to non-psychologist
colleagues to help guide patients recovery and rehabilitation.
-
You will provide psychological support to
patients and families on critical care this could include direct work with
patients or systemic interventions working with and alongside the MDT to effect
change.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
This is a newly created post, working as part of the
department of Critical Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Expectations of the post-holder include:
To provide highly specialist psychological support to
patients, their relatives and staff on the Intensive Care Unit.
- To undertake psychological assessment, develop
psychological formulations with and for clients, and to provide highly
specialised, evidence-based psychological interventions in individual, family
or group format.
- To work alongside the lead nurse for the
Critical Care follow up clinic to help identify, sign post or provide
psychological support to survivors of critical care, and their families, who
are suffering with the psychological effects of Post Intensive Care Syndrome,
difficulties with adjustment, or other mental health difficulties.
- To liaise closely with the multi disciplinary
team to provide specialised advice and consultation on patients psychological
care to non-psychologist colleagues to help guide patients recovery and
rehabilitation.
- To work systemically, supporting the critical
care MDT to deliver psychologically informed care to patients and their
families.
- To contribute to the delivery of teaching,
training and supervision for non-psychologist colleagues in order to enable
them to identify early clients who will benefit from specialist input. For example, developing and promoting screening
tools for bedside staff to use.
- To formulate individual deescalation plans to
support patients whose behaviour is challenging for staff teams during an admission
- for example, patients with an existing mental health difficulty, intellectual
disability, or neurological symptoms/ syndromes.
- To utilise research skills for the purposes of
audit, policy development and research.
- To contribute to service evaluation and service
development in line with service objectives and with the aim of meeting
national and local guidelines and targets.
- To liaise with multidisciplinary team
colleagues, other health and social care agencies and staff involved with the
care group, and with other psychologists both locally and nationally for
professional development.
- To provide supervision for less experienced
psychologists where appropriate including, undergraduate and postgraduate
psychology placement students, assistant and trainee psychologists, and
qualified psychologists.
- To support the development of clinical health
psychology services and pathways through formal and informal links with
practitioner psychologists providing clinical health psychology and liaison
psychology services in both the acute hospital and local community.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical
- To provide highly specialist psychological
assessments of complex patients, or where appropriate their families, either
while they are currently on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or post discharge
from hospital through the Critical Care follow up clinic. This will be based upon the appropriate use,
interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
including psychological and neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures,
rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured
interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients
care.
- To advise on appropriate deescalation
techniques for those patients experiencing psychological crises, helping staff
to best manage behaviours that challenge on the ICU.
- To provide psychological support and
supervision for staff working on the ICU.
This may be in the form of group sessions by providing a safe space for
reflection and providing tools and/or sign posting for further support. This will also include either supporting, or
leading small group debrief sessions following an emotionally traumatic
clinical situation.
- To develop
psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate
complex information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws
upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal,
societal, cultural and biological factors, across the full range of care
settings.
- To develop and
implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a
clients psychological difficulties, 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,
carers, families and groups, within and across teams, 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, family, carers or group.
- To exercise
autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological
formulation, treatment and discharge of clients, and to manage and maintain a
caseload in line with service guidelines.
- To provide
specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment
plan.
- To ensure that all
members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework
for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of
advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and
theory.
- To contribute
directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding
and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, 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 in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures. To
assess clients for referral onto Mental Health Services should their needs be
more relevant for management by those teams.
- To communicate in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family, carers and others as
appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
their care.
- To monitor and
evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care,
and to provide appropriate reports on this.
- To provide highly
specialist expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and
appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment
team.
- To produce reports
on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological
assessment and formulation and treatment outcomes in a way that does justice to
the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the
recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
- To work in
partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and
non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
- Will be required to
sit in a constrained position for client therapy and extended assessment.
- Will be required to
tolerate and manage verbal abuse and occasional physical aggression.
- Will be required to
deal with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapy contacts which
may be frequently highly distressing on a daily basis, and to work with
frequent intense concentration for much of the clinical sessions of assessment
and therapy.
Teaching, Training and Supervision- In common with all Practitioner Psychologists,
to receive regular clinical supervision and monthly management supervision, in
accordance with good practice and BPS guidelines.
- To continue to gain
wider post-qualification experience of applied psychology in line with BPS
policy on CPD; in particular, to make links with other Clinical Psychologists
and Practitioner Psychologists working in Critical Care regionally, nationally,
and to attend relevant special interest groups and training sessions.
- To develop skills in
the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and
to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical
supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and Trainee Clinical/
Counselling/ Health Psychologists, as appropriate
- To support placements for Trainee Clinical/Counselling/
Health Psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills,
competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological
care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
- To
contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health, counselling
and other applied psychologists, as appropriate, through contact within the
locality with other Practitioner Psychologists.
- Where
appropriate, to offer clinical and/or professional supervision to qualified
practitioner psychologists working elsewhere within the organisation.
- To
provide advice, consultation, supervision and training to staff working with
the client group across a range of agencies and settings for the provision of psychologically based interventions to
help improve clients functioning.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
This is a newly created post, working as part of the
department of Critical Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Expectations of the post-holder include:
To provide highly specialist psychological support to
patients, their relatives and staff on the Intensive Care Unit.
- To undertake psychological assessment, develop
psychological formulations with and for clients, and to provide highly
specialised, evidence-based psychological interventions in individual, family
or group format.
- To work alongside the lead nurse for the
Critical Care follow up clinic to help identify, sign post or provide
psychological support to survivors of critical care, and their families, who
are suffering with the psychological effects of Post Intensive Care Syndrome,
difficulties with adjustment, or other mental health difficulties.
- To liaise closely with the multi disciplinary
team to provide specialised advice and consultation on patients psychological
care to non-psychologist colleagues to help guide patients recovery and
rehabilitation.
- To work systemically, supporting the critical
care MDT to deliver psychologically informed care to patients and their
families.
- To contribute to the delivery of teaching,
training and supervision for non-psychologist colleagues in order to enable
them to identify early clients who will benefit from specialist input. For example, developing and promoting screening
tools for bedside staff to use.
- To formulate individual deescalation plans to
support patients whose behaviour is challenging for staff teams during an admission
- for example, patients with an existing mental health difficulty, intellectual
disability, or neurological symptoms/ syndromes.
- To utilise research skills for the purposes of
audit, policy development and research.
- To contribute to service evaluation and service
development in line with service objectives and with the aim of meeting
national and local guidelines and targets.
- To liaise with multidisciplinary team
colleagues, other health and social care agencies and staff involved with the
care group, and with other psychologists both locally and nationally for
professional development.
- To provide supervision for less experienced
psychologists where appropriate including, undergraduate and postgraduate
psychology placement students, assistant and trainee psychologists, and
qualified psychologists.
- To support the development of clinical health
psychology services and pathways through formal and informal links with
practitioner psychologists providing clinical health psychology and liaison
psychology services in both the acute hospital and local community.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical
- To provide highly specialist psychological
assessments of complex patients, or where appropriate their families, either
while they are currently on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or post discharge
from hospital through the Critical Care follow up clinic. This will be based upon the appropriate use,
interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
including psychological and neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures,
rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured
interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients
care.
- To advise on appropriate deescalation
techniques for those patients experiencing psychological crises, helping staff
to best manage behaviours that challenge on the ICU.
- To provide psychological support and
supervision for staff working on the ICU.
This may be in the form of group sessions by providing a safe space for
reflection and providing tools and/or sign posting for further support. This will also include either supporting, or
leading small group debrief sessions following an emotionally traumatic
clinical situation.
- To develop
psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate
complex information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws
upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal,
societal, cultural and biological factors, across the full range of care
settings.
- To develop and
implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a
clients psychological difficulties, 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,
carers, families and groups, within and across teams, 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, family, carers or group.
- To exercise
autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological
formulation, treatment and discharge of clients, and to manage and maintain a
caseload in line with service guidelines.
- To provide
specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment
plan.
- To ensure that all
members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework
for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of
advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and
theory.
- To contribute
directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding
and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, 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 in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures. To
assess clients for referral onto Mental Health Services should their needs be
more relevant for management by those teams.
- To communicate in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family, carers and others as
appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
their care.
- To monitor and
evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care,
and to provide appropriate reports on this.
- To provide highly
specialist expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and
appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment
team.
- To produce reports
on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological
assessment and formulation and treatment outcomes in a way that does justice to
the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the
recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
- To work in
partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and
non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
- Will be required to
sit in a constrained position for client therapy and extended assessment.
- Will be required to
tolerate and manage verbal abuse and occasional physical aggression.
- Will be required to
deal with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapy contacts which
may be frequently highly distressing on a daily basis, and to work with
frequent intense concentration for much of the clinical sessions of assessment
and therapy.
Teaching, Training and Supervision- In common with all Practitioner Psychologists,
to receive regular clinical supervision and monthly management supervision, in
accordance with good practice and BPS guidelines.
- To continue to gain
wider post-qualification experience of applied psychology in line with BPS
policy on CPD; in particular, to make links with other Clinical Psychologists
and Practitioner Psychologists working in Critical Care regionally, nationally,
and to attend relevant special interest groups and training sessions.
- To develop skills in
the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and
to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical
supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and Trainee Clinical/
Counselling/ Health Psychologists, as appropriate
- To support placements for Trainee Clinical/Counselling/
Health Psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills,
competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological
care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
- To
contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health, counselling
and other applied psychologists, as appropriate, through contact within the
locality with other Practitioner Psychologists.
- Where
appropriate, to offer clinical and/or professional supervision to qualified
practitioner psychologists working elsewhere within the organisation.
- To
provide advice, consultation, supervision and training to staff working with
the client group across a range of agencies and settings for the provision of psychologically based interventions to
help improve clients functioning.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including models of psychopathology, psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
- Pre- or post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Planning and organising skills for caseload management.
- Skills in self-management, including time-management.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies as applied in a clinical health psychology setting.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of post-qualification experience within an NHS context.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of liaising with patients, carers and families and external organisations that support these groups.
- Ability to show autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients and liaising with other professionals as and when necessary.
- Ability to undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and families and to provide advice to other professions on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- Evidence of and willingness to undertake continued professional development.
- Experience of working in a health setting with patients who have a physical health difficulty.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in a Critical care setting.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Approachable and empathic personality, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
- Understanding of confidentiality.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of practice governance and to support and maintain own and services standards of clinical practice.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients and with organisational stress.
- Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including models of psychopathology, psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
- Pre- or post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Planning and organising skills for caseload management.
- Skills in self-management, including time-management.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies as applied in a clinical health psychology setting.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of post-qualification experience within an NHS context.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of liaising with patients, carers and families and external organisations that support these groups.
- Ability to show autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients and liaising with other professionals as and when necessary.
- Ability to undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and families and to provide advice to other professions on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- Evidence of and willingness to undertake continued professional development.
- Experience of working in a health setting with patients who have a physical health difficulty.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in a Critical care setting.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Approachable and empathic personality, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
- Understanding of confidentiality.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of practice governance and to support and maintain own and services standards of clinical practice.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients and with organisational stress.
- Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting.
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).
