Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Tue and Thu preferrable but not essential)
- Job ref
- 333-G-HM-0687
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Greenacres Centre, Hillingdon Hospital
- Town
- Uxbridge
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/01/2025
Employer heading
Macmillan Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (Cancer & Pall Care)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We welcome colleagues with an interest in the specialty of Cancer and Palliative Care, who value a warm team environment and scope to develop under expert supervision of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
This role is a well-established part of a Consultant-led multi-professional Psycho-oncology team, co-located with cancer & palliative care clinical MDTs, and supported by the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Hillingdon Hospital and the CNWL Psychological Professions network.
This is a part-time 0.6 WTE role, involving onsite hospital-based inpatient & outpatient work, with occasional community home-based palliative care work (for which, use of a car is advantageous). Onsite working is required most of the time.
We figure a good informal chat is the best advert, please call us to discuss or arrange a visit.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities in Clinical Care
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To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients and carers referred to the cancer and palliative care psychological support service
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To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s psychological concerns, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.
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To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
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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.
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To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress throughout both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
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To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
Please see full description in the attached JD document.
Working for our organisation
Hear directly from our leaders and their vision for psychological professions in the Trust here:
https://staff.cnwl.nhs.uk/i-want-info/professions/therapies/psychology
You can read the corporate stuff on the CNWL website, the thing to actually highlight is a very strong CPD offer, with a depth and breadth of learning available through free access to the full Bespoke and Contextual Consulting catalogues, as well as in-house events and programmes.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Purpose:
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To provide a specialist psychology service to cancer and palliative patients and their carers, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
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To support the specialist community palliative care team (CNWL), Hospital Palliative Care Team (The Hillingdon Hospital) and cancer services (The Hillingdon Hospital) by providing a direct clinical service and via attendance at multidisciplinary meetings.
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To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
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To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
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To undertake service evaluation, quality improvement, audit and research.
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To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
Please see full JD attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling)
Desirable criteria
- First class BSc degree
- Relevant post-doctoral qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Desirable criteria
- Experience of holding responsibility for multiprofessional teaching, training and supervision
- Experience of working in a Cancer and Palliative Care setting
- Experience of holding responsible roles in industries outside healthcare
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heather Wells
- Job title
- Macmillan Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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