Clinical Psychologist, Psycho-Oncology Service

National health service; United States; Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Some home working

Supportive team environment

Job summary

National Health Service in County Durham and Darlington is seeking a Practitioner Psychologist to help grow a psycho-oncology service with a strong emphasis on equity and accessibility. You will manage a caseload, deliver core assessments and therapies, and work with a wide network of MDTs, charities and stakeholders.

Applicants should have NHS psychology experience, HCPC registration, and a passion for reducing inequalities in cancer care.

Qualifications

• Essential NHS experience and HCPC registration.
• Experience in health psychology, hospital or cancer care settings.
• Ability to work with diverse client groups and MDTs.
• Experience with research, service evaluation or audit in the NHS.
• Knowledge of cancer care pathways and psycho-oncology approaches.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist assessments and interventions for people affected by lung cancer.
• Develop psycho-oncology services with a focus on equity and accessibility.
• Collaborate with the lung MDTs, charities and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to research, training and service development.
• Share learning across the broader cancer region to promote best practice.

Skills

NHS experience

Clinical psychology

Psycho-oncology knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Research and evaluation

Education

Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist

Post-doctoral training in specialist areas

Tools

SPSS

Qualitative analysis tools

Job description

This Practitioner Psychologist post is an opportunity to join a developing Psycho-oncology Service across County Durham and Darlington at a key point in its growth and we want to do something important with that opportunity. Rather than building a psychology service and expecting patients to find their way to us, we want to think differently about the barriers that too often determine who is able to easily access psychological support and introduce a service approach that can challenge inequality rather than entrench it. And because we know flexibility matters for staff as well as patients, there is no expectation that you need to be based in one particular place. The Trust covers a large geographical area, with potential bases including Durham, Darlington and Bishop Auckland. We offer flexible working patterns and some home working, and would be very happy to discuss whwhat might work for you. If you are looking for a post where you can make a tangible difference, develop professionallyand help build a psychology service with proximity, equity and accessibility at its heart, we would love to hear from you

Main duties of the job This role wil begin with a focus on lung cancer population needs. It will involve speaking with patients, MDTs, charities, external stakeholders to help develop ways to provide specialist psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions that are appropiate for the population in all their variety.

You will hold a caseload and offer level 3 and 4 assessment and intervention

You won't be alone, this is part of a servicewide approach so you will work directly with the head of service. A key aspect of the role will be to share learnings across the wider lung cancer region to support dissemination of best practice.

To really enjoy this job you will need to be creative and innovative, but also a real completer finisher with an eye for detail and evaluation.

About us If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

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Job responsibilities You will play a pivotal role in contributing to developing psycho-oncology support for people affected by lung cancer in County Durham and Darlington. You will be highly motivated to offer a service that addresses social inequalities and will develop effective working relationships across, population, organisations and boundaries to do this creatively.

You will work closely with the CDDFT lung multi-disciplinary team to ensure the needs of people affected by lung cancer are supported and to develop ways that psychology can fit into exisiting approaches.

You will hold an active caseload, delivering specialist assessments and interventions for people affected by lung cancer, as well as contributing to research, training, and service development to enhance psycho-oncology delivery and care within the organisation.

A key aspect of the role will be to share learning from the service across the wider region, to inform and support regional psycho-oncology care.

You wil be supported by the consultant psychologist and head of service

Person Specification Experience

• Essential Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of working in a health psychology setting
• Experience working with patients in hospital or cancer care settings
• Experience of working with a multidisciplinary setting and liaising with external stakeholders
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups
• Experience of undertaking research or service evaluation or audit within the NHS and the verbal and written dissemination of findings
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of providing assessment/ therapy/ supervision/teaching & training

Person Specification Desirable

• Experience in working with pathway development
• Experience of working with hard to engage populations
• Experience of running groups
• Experience of consultation work to health professionals and MDT working
• Experience of teaching and training other health professionals
• Experience of working in partnership with community and voluntary sector organisations.

Special Requirements

• Essential Knowledge of working in a cancer service or other health setting
• A finisher- completer with an eye for detail and strong organisational and planning skills
• Interest in addressing social inequalities
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Emotional resiliance in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and hospital environment.
• Able to transport equipment.
• Able to travel to multiple hospitals across the Trust and regionally.

Desirable Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS

• Desirable Post Qualification in staff supervision

Qualifications Essential

• Post-graduate doctorate level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS including specifically models of psychopathology, psychological therapies
• HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of clinical practice
• Evidence of continuous professional development including relevant specialist courses, training and experience

Desirable Post Qualification in staff supervision

• Desirable Post Qualification in staff supervision

Special Skills & Knowledge Essential

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Able to provide a culturally sensitive service.
• Able to have a flexible and dynamic approach to working in terms of the ability to work collaboratively and/or independently as required.
• Able to work flexibly and using a range of therapeutic approaches in response to individual clients needs.
• Able to work flexibly within the service according to clinical demand and manage competing priorities and deliver reliable outcomes
• Able to contain and work with organisational stress, hospital triggers and to have resilience in holding the stress of others.
• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to sit and concentrate for extended periods
• Ability to use clinical governance procedures to support and maintain good clinical practise
• Ability to use computer packages for statistical analysis, presentations
• Training in the supervision of psychologists
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological approaches applied in physical health care settings.
• Knowledge of legislation and implications for clinical practice
• 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 mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable Experience in design and delivery of group work

• Experience in design and delivery of group work
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with couples and families

Statutory Registration Essential

• Registered with appropriate professional body - HCPC

Desirable Member of BPS or ACP

• Member of BPS or ACP

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