Job summary
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist in Cancer Care Band 730 hrs (.8 wte) per week (flexible or additional working hours possible up to 1.00 wte, 37.5 hours)
This post is placed in the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) , working as part of the psycho-oncology service to provide psychological care for people affected by cancer, with focus on patients with Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD). ICHT covers several hospitals, including Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary's. The HQ of the CHP department run by CNWL is at St Mary's Hospital, W2 1NY. Charing Cross Hospital hosts the internationally leading GTD/Choriocarcinoma (CC) screening and treatment Centre, one of two such centres in the UK. The GTD/CC multidisciplinary team screens and treats women with malignancies arising from a pregnancy. To find out more about GTD, visit hmole-chorio.org.uk
This is a 0.8 WTE substantive part-time role, and working days/hours can be flexible to facilitate a positive work-life balance. Additional 0.2 WTE is available.
Relevant experience in physical health settings is expected and experience in cancer psychological care is an advantage, but we don't expect specialist experience . We seek a team player, willing to work flexibly and collaboratively, able to communicate skillfully with the MDT and to draw creatively from evidence-based psychological models.
Main duties of the job
Working with guidance from the lead for psycho-oncology and the GTD team, the postholder will further develop a service that has been established and is highly valued and extended from 0.5 to 0.8 WTE. The role will include direct clinical input to all inpatients and a number of outpatients (on remote monitoring, acute treatment and long-term follow-up, face-face or via video clinic, as well as carers, families and bereavement support), contributing to the GTD team's research and quality improvement projects, and a substantial proportion of consultation, training and supervision.
Clinical supervision will be with a senior psychologist , as best suited to support the development of the postholder's clinical skills and interests. There is good access to CPD through a dedicated CNWL psychology CPD program, the development opportunities at Imperial (eg Quality Improvement, Leadership development) and access to applying for Macmillan funding for CPD.The post will be supported within the department of Clinical Health Psychology with weekly CPD meetings and peer support.
About us
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing integrated high quality, innovative healthcare. Our track record in recruiting only the best people is well known and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
Vaccination
The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of deployment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users and we will therefore be seeking proof of vaccination or medical exemption during the recruitment process.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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD for more details.
Clinical
- To provide specialist Level 3/4 psychological care for patients, and their families and carers affected by cancer and/or on the GTD pathway, including those on remote monitoring, inpatient hospital treatment and recovery.
- Offer comprehensive psychosocial assessment, with particular attention to background vulnerabilities and complexities, factors that impact on treatment (e.g. adherence), relationship to care and risk, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
- Develop a formulation of patients psychosocial adjustment & distress, and a collaboratively agreed plan of care, and convey this understanding in a clear and practical way to the wider MDT, supporting all staff to provide effective, compassionate and psychologically- minded care.
- To work from a broader psychological adjustment model, draw flexibly on skills in multiple therapeutic models of psychological care, to deliver a broad range of inputs, from one-off bedside or phone consultations to group work, brief-targeted and extended psychotherapeutic care.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, 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 or group.
- To work with partners, family members and carers affected by the patients illness and treatment, providing specialist psychological care, including bereavement support where required.
- Working collaboratively and flexibly within with the GTD team the psycho-oncology team, hospital liaison psychiatry team, primary/community services and third-sector resources to plan and coordinate psychological care for patients and carers, in line with best practice and patient choice.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.
- Provide clinical care through phone, video clinic and other channels as clinically appropriate and operationally necessary.
Teaching, training, and supervision 1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. 2. Support and develop the first-line psychological care by GTD CNSs in line with the relevant psychological care pathway (2020 London TCST).
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience relevant to the specialty, as agreed with the clinical lead of the specialty.
- 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, research and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of trainee clinical / counselling psychologists.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as agreed with the clinical lead of the specialty.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- Provide informal reflection/debriefing sessions to the GTD and other cancer MDTs, related ward staff, and other health care professionals, as agreed with service leads
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of Psycho-oncology services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists.
- To attend and contribute to the regular professional meetings of the Psycho-oncology team and Clinical Health Psychology department and other relevant meetings as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD for more details.
Clinical
- To provide specialist Level 3/4 psychological care for patients, and their families and carers affected by cancer and/or on the GTD pathway, including those on remote monitoring, inpatient hospital treatment and recovery.
- Offer comprehensive psychosocial assessment, with particular attention to background vulnerabilities and complexities, factors that impact on treatment (e.g. adherence), relationship to care and risk, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
- Develop a formulation of patients psychosocial adjustment & distress, and a collaboratively agreed plan of care, and convey this understanding in a clear and practical way to the wider MDT, supporting all staff to provide effective, compassionate and psychologically- minded care.
- To work from a broader psychological adjustment model, draw flexibly on skills in multiple therapeutic models of psychological care, to deliver a broad range of inputs, from one-off bedside or phone consultations to group work, brief-targeted and extended psychotherapeutic care.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, 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 or group.
- To work with partners, family members and carers affected by the patients illness and treatment, providing specialist psychological care, including bereavement support where required.
- Working collaboratively and flexibly within with the GTD team the psycho-oncology team, hospital liaison psychiatry team, primary/community services and third-sector resources to plan and coordinate psychological care for patients and carers, in line with best practice and patient choice.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.
- Provide clinical care through phone, video clinic and other channels as clinically appropriate and operationally necessary.
Teaching, training, and supervision 1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. 2. Support and develop the first-line psychological care by GTD CNSs in line with the relevant psychological care pathway (2020 London TCST).
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience relevant to the specialty, as agreed with the clinical lead of the specialty.
- 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, research and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of trainee clinical / counselling psychologists.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as agreed with the clinical lead of the specialty.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- Provide informal reflection/debriefing sessions to the GTD and other cancer MDTs, related ward staff, and other health care professionals, as agreed with service leads
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of Psycho-oncology services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists.
- To attend and contribute to the regular professional meetings of the Psycho-oncology team and Clinical Health Psychology department and other relevant meetings as required.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFIC-ATIONS
Essential
- o2:1 Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (BPS recognised) or other relevant subject at Doctoral-level qualification in counselling or clinical psychology, with current HCPC registration
Desirable
- o1st class degree
- oPostgraduate training: a)clinically relevant to psycho-oncology b)in clinical supervision c)in quality improvement, research and/or audit methodologies
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- oExperience of clinical practice in at least two psychological models relevant to psycho-oncology
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life-course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- oExperience of clinical work in a multicultural context
Desirable
- oExperience in acute cancer and palliative care settingsExperience of psychological care over phone/video clinicExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision to multiprofessional healthcare teams
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFIC-ATIONS
Essential
- o2:1 Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (BPS recognised) or other relevant subject at Doctoral-level qualification in counselling or clinical psychology, with current HCPC registration
Desirable
- o1st class degree
- oPostgraduate training: a)clinically relevant to psycho-oncology b)in clinical supervision c)in quality improvement, research and/or audit methodologies
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- oExperience of clinical practice in at least two psychological models relevant to psycho-oncology
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life-course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- oExperience of clinical work in a multicultural context
Desirable
- oExperience in acute cancer and palliative care settingsExperience of psychological care over phone/video clinicExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision to multiprofessional healthcare teams
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).
