Clinical Psychologist

TN United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a passionate Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to join their dedicated team working with children and teenagers battling cancer. This permanent position offers a unique opportunity to provide vital psychological support within a multi-disciplinary environment. You will engage in both clinical and neuropsychological work, contributing to innovative pain management strategies and delivering evidence-based therapies. The role emphasizes professional development, collaboration, and the chance to make a significant impact on young lives. If you are enthusiastic about clinical psychology and committed to improving the well-being of children and families, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology required.
• Valid HCPC registration or eligibility for registration post-qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical psychology services to paediatric oncology patients.
• Contribute to the CHAMP multi-disciplinary clinic for pain management.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Research Design and Methodology

Psychological Assessment

Communication Skills

Teaching and Training

Neuropsychology

Pain Management Interventions

Multi-disciplinary Team Collaboration

Professionalism

Education

Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology

HCPC Registration

Job description

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 7 (1.0 WTE), for a permanent post working with children and teenagers who have cancer and with their families. In addition, the post includes working 1 day a week in the CHAMP (persistent pain) service with children and teenagers with cancer. In the CHAMP team, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of a pain consultant, a clinical nurse specialist, a physiotherapist, and a psychologist. This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced multi-disciplinary medical and nursing oncology unit, where leadership, innovation, research, teaching, and training are strongly encouraged. The psychology service provides a comprehensive assessment, consultation, and support service both internally and externally to the Unit. The role encompasses both clinical and neuropsychological work. This is a very well-established psychology team, with excellent professional and compassionate staff, well supported by our efficient and caring administration team within a cancer Centre of Excellence.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to paediatric oncology patients and their families, within the working context of the paediatric psychosocial team and within the wider context of the multidisciplinary team.
• To provide clinical psychology services for the pain pathway.
• To contribute to the CHAMP multi-disciplinary clinic, supporting children with cancer and persistent pain.
• To offer evidence-based psychological therapy to children and young people referred to the CHAMP service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
• To propose and implement policy changes within the paediatric oncology clinical psychology and CHAMP service.
• To provide specialist advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the psychological practice within the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

These responsibilities will be carried out under the guidance of consultant Clinical psychologist (Paediatric and Teenage Psychology Service)

• To provide clinical psychology services for the pain pathway.
• To offer consultation regarding pain management issues for qualified and unqualified clinical psychology staff in the team.
• To be responsible for offering a comprehensive clinical psychology service for children and young people with pain and cancer, and their families.

Teaching, Training and Supervision

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training, and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development

• To participate in the development of the CHAMP service with the team leads.
• To participate in the systematic governance of psychological practice within the CHAMP service.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and 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.

Person specification

Education

• Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent).
• Valid HCPC registration, or eligible for HCPC registration following completion of an HCPC accredited course.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Training in one or more additional therapies with an evidence base for chronic pain.

Experience

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as either a trainee clinical psychologist or as a newly qualified clinician and within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of teaching and training other professionals.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of neuropsychology and experience in neuropsychological testing.
• Experience of working in paediatric psychology.
• Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams within a hospital setting.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of providing psychological pain management interventions.
• Experience as the sole psychologist within an MDT.

Skills

• Doctoral level knowledge and experience in research design and methodology.
• An ability to initiate and implement research projects.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring the use of sustained and intense concentration.
• A high-level ability to communicate potentially complex and sensitive information effectively at both a written and oral level, both to patients and their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside of NHS.
• The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
• Skills in providing consultation and advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance and audit mechanisms to reflect, assess, and maintain the effectiveness of clinical practice.
• Enthusiasm for clinical psychology, health psychology, and working with children, young people, and families.
• An interest in service development and delivery.
• Ability to effectively manage competing demands.
• Ability to provide and promote appropriate support to carers and staff.
• Willingness to keep abreast of literature and of new developments in the field.
• Computer literate, and ability to use multi-media materials for presentations.
• Ability to articulate and interpret the role of clinical psychology, within both local and national contexts.
• An ability to work as the sole psychologist within an MDT, with support from the wider Paediatric and Teenage Psychological Support Service.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapy for use in physical health settings.
• Knowledge of legislation and implications for clinical practice.
• A commitment to evaluation of services, including audit.
• A wish to continue to develop expertise in the area of paediatrics.
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural framework.