Senior Practitioner Psychologist

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join their dynamic Cancer Psychological Services team. This role emphasizes psychological care and direct patient support across cancer pathways, particularly in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to service development, provide training, and engage in supervision, all while working within a supportive and inclusive environment. If you're passionate about enhancing patient wellbeing and thrive in a collaborative setting, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in the field of psychological services.

Qualifications

• Experience in culturally diverse contexts and working with various client groups.
• Ability to communicate complex information effectively to clients and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical services to inpatients and outpatients in cancer care.
• Engage in multi-disciplinary working and support team members.

Skills

Communication Skills

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy

Systemic Approaches

Clinical Psychology Knowledge

Multi-disciplinary Working

Education

Postgraduate Professional Training in Clinical Psychology

Registered Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC

Formal Training in Supervision

Job description

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Senior Practitioner Psychologist, London

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Client:

Barts Health NHS Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

02.05.2025

Expiry Date:

16.06.2025

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Job overview

We are pleased to be advertising this new 8a Practitioner Psychologist posts within the well-established, multiprofessional Cancer Psychological Services (CPS) team based at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (SBH) in the City of London.

The role will contribute psychological thinking and direct patient care to cancer pathways across Barts Health but there will be an emphasis on working closely with the haemato-oncology MDT as part of the allogenic stem-cell transplant/ CAR-T therapy pathways based at SBH.In addition to direct patient work, there is a strong emphasis within the team on disseminating psychological knowledge and skills across the cancer workforce through training, consultation, and supervision.

CPS is connected with the many other psychological professionals working across Barts Health, with opportunities for the post holder to support the development of psychological services across the trust, funded CPD and joining a specialist psychotherapeutic supervision group (eg ACT, CFT, Narrative, EMDR).

There is the potential for further sessions of work within cancer, cardiac & respiratory services at SBH if required.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve providing a clinical service to both inpatients and outpatients and close working with cancer MDT colleagues. Though the service frequently provides direct support to individuals requiring specialist psychological intervention, our overarching aim is to improve the psychological wellbeing of all cancer/ palliative care patients and their families through the sharing of psychological knowledge and skills and service developments. Applicants should therefore be skilled and keen to engage in multi-disciplinary working. The post holder may also be expected to provide line management and supervision to both qualified and unqualified members of the team.

Experience of working with people who have been diagnosed with cancer or other life limiting conditions and in multi-cultural settings is highly desirable.

There will be a requirement for the successful candidate to work on a Thursday to attend the WPPC and one other day that works for both the successful applicant and the service

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of working in culturally diverse contexts.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of working with people with cancer and/or palliative care needs
• Experience of working with inpatients in an acute medical setting
• Experience of inter-agency working and service development

Skills

• Ability to articulate and interpret the role of clinical health psychology based upon a good understanding of government and professional guidelines/policy.
• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Skills in the application of Cognitive-behavioural and systemic approaches to mental health. Able to demonstrate a thorough understanding, and experience of practice.

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Knowledge of legislation / health care guidelines and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in patients with physical health problems, including those with palliative care needs and cancer

Qualifications

• Completion of a Health and Care Professions Council/British Psychological Society accredited postgraduate professional training course in either clinical or counselling psychology.
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to clinical health psychology eg ACT, CFT, CBT, Narrative therapy, EMDR

Other

• Compassionate, flexible and committed.
• Enthusiasm for multi-disciplinary working with a thoughtful approach to developing psychological services within this context.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours