Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Integrated Care System; Kendal; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization providing cancer care is seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead the new Macmillan psychotherapy pathway. The role requires extensive clinical experience in cancer and physical health psychology, collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and a commitment to improving patient care. This is a full-time position with a salary range of £76,965 to £88,682 per annum, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience in cancer psychology.
• Demonstrable leadership skills and experience.
• Able to work under pressure and maintain professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the new Macmillan pathway for cancer patients.
• Provide clinical supervision to MDT teams.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders in cancer care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Psychological therapies

Clinical supervision

Collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

HCPC registration

Qualification in supervision

Job description

Go back Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 13 August 2025

This is a consultant level post, partly funded by Macmillan, which will specifically provide input to the cancer psychology pathways. Therefore this post holder requires extensive clinical experience in cancer, as well as broader physical health psychology.

You will provide operational leadership to the inpatient and outpatient pathways for cancer psychology and the new Macmillan service. The new Macmillan pathway aims to ensure that adults affected by cancer experience excellent psycho-social care wherever they are on the cancer pathway to increase;

• Timely & equitable access to appropriate mental health support integrated with cancer care clinical pathways
• Improved coordination and integrated psycho-social support across primary, community, social and acute settings
• Psychosocial education and support for health care professionals
• Improved integrated support for people with learning disabilities and pre-existing mental health conditions with cancer

The service places a high value on service user involvement and the value of co-production and design in delivering personalised care. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience of cancer and/or long-term physical health conditions

The post holder will also be a core member of the consultant leadership team in CHPS and will support the Head of Service and colleagues with the strategic development of the service, providing clinical leadership and line management within the service.

Main duties of the job

You will be the clinical lead for the new Macmillan pathway in cancer, managing and supporting the team and contributing to the implementation, development and evaluation of the service and Macmillan Project. You will provide highly specialised psychological therapy and assessment for patients with Cancer for patients living in Preston, Chorley and South Cumbria.

Collaboration is a critical aspect of this role. You will work closely with the psycho-oncology collaborative, psychology colleagues, MDT's and key stakeholders, both within the Clinical Business Unit and Voluntary sector.

You will provide supervision to psychological practitioners and heath service and contribute to and facilitate a varied training programme for professionals. You will facilitate triage meetings and contribute to highly specialist clinical health psychology discussions for patients living with cancer, and support with integrated multidisciplinary care.

As part of the Macmillan project you will engage in audit and research within the pathway to further the development of the pathway.

There is an expectation for you to undertake extended roles and responsibilities within the Clinical Health Psychology Services and to work flexibly across the services as directed by the Head of the Clinical Health Psychology. You will also provide managerial support and professional leadership to members of the psychology team working across a range of physical health specialities.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Job responsibilities

• To develop and clinically lead the new Macmillan pathway which has been designed to increase access for patients living cancer in Preston, Chorley and South Cumbria.
• To lead on the cancer and Macmillan psychology pathways, which includes: overseeing the provision of, and delivering, short-term assessment, formulation and intervention across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• To provide integrated multidisciplinary care (joint appointments and MDT assessment clinics) across the inpatient and outpatient pathways to patients referred by our MDT colleagues.
• To train and support MDT colleagues in psychologically informed care through education, teaching and consultation.
• To provide clinical supervision to the MDT teams and teams working in cancer
• To routinely undertake research, audit and service evaluation to feed into the Macmillan project. To support with preparing and presenting reports of clinical activity and effectiveness to key stakeholders, Macmillan and the ICB.
• To contribute to MDT promotion of patient need, clinical symptoms and approaches to care.
• To contribute to the development of the care pathways (includingdeveloping relationships with key partners within the ICS).
• To work in consultation and collaboration with psychologist colleagues, MDT colleagues, and key stakeholders.
• To undertake extended roles and responsibilities within CHPs
• To work flexibly across CHPs as required and directed by the Head of the Clinical Health Psychology Services.
• The post holder will be a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist with demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar level/grade.

Please see associated Job Description and Person Spec for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Education

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
• Or Qualification as a Counselling Psychologist
• HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist
• Qualification in supervision
• Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions

Knowledge and Experience

• Well-developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions in clinical psychology and health psychology
• Doctoral level knowledge of psychology theory and practice, assessment, psychological therapies and their application
• Post qualification training and experience of two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both practice and management of service
• Knowledge of relevant standards, policies and guidelines in the NHS, health psychology, oncology and palliative care.
• Experience as a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
• Able to work with a range of complex clinical presentations in various settings including inpatient and outpatient. Also to work under pressure whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism.
• Experience of developing and leading clinical services / pathways within a physical health/oncology setting
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Experienced in the delivery of evidence-based interventions in clinical /health psychology.
• Experienced in the delivery of evidence-based interventions in clinical /health psychology.
• Experience in audit and evaluation of clinical services
• Experience of NHS management tasks and multi-professional and inter-agency working
• Knowledge of local NHS structures. Experience of working with service users as co-producers
• Experience of applying health psychology within different contexts and settings
• Experienced in the delivery of evidence based interventions in Oncology Psychology
• Experience of service development

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.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£76,965 to £88,682 a yearPer Annum, Pro Rata