Job summary
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a driven and dynamic clinical/counselling psychologist to take up this interesting role split across two of our teams. The post is split across our innovative multidisciplinary Cancer Psychological Support (CaPS) team [2 days] and the St George's Rapid Diagnostic Cancer Clinic (RDCC) [1 day].
"We would consider applications from Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to be supported in a Preceptorship, whereby the Band 7 post holder would be provided with training and supervision to meet the Band 8a role requirements within 12-18 months."
Main duties of the job
The post within our CaPS team is based at The Phoenix Centre, St George's Hospital, providing specialist assessment and intervention (group and individual) for patients affected by cancer and their families/carers. The range of work is diverse, covering outpatient and inpatient settings, joint-working with multidisciplinary colleagues, teaching/training and supervisory opportunities within and outside of clinical psychology. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, additional Clinical Psychologists (across cancer and palliative care), a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and a Cancer Counsellor. You will also liaise closely with medical, nursing and AHP colleagues within Cancer Services in delivering a highly integrated service. The Macmillan Cancer Psychological Support (CaPS) Team actively supports research and there are numerous opportunities for involvement in teaching and training.
The aspect of the post within the RDCC is a highly innovative aspect of the role and a great opportunity to shape a service that is one of very few on the country to have embedded psychology as part of the holistic diagnostic process. The role is a mixture of short-term clinical assessment and embedding psychologically-informed care as part of the wider pathway.
About us
With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- 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 outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Minimum 18 months post qualification experience of working in a clinical setting, with at least 12 months of which spent in a clinical health psychology speciality.
- Experience of working within a MDT team, showing respect for different approaches and a desire to work to collaboratively to enhance team cohesion and support.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a cancer service.
- Experience of psychological work with people with a range of physical health problems including medically unexplained symptoms.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
- Ability to engage people in psychological work who are experiencing complex biopsychosocial problems.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology.
- An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with cancer.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- An understanding of challenges that may be experienced going through diagnostic procedures.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to move flexibly between clinical demands and service development tasks.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to use Microsoft word to produce clinical reports and other documents as required by the CaPS Team.
- An ability to manage time and workload within tight sessional boundaries.
- Experience of service development.
- Experience of audit, project work and research.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- 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 outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Minimum 18 months post qualification experience of working in a clinical setting, with at least 12 months of which spent in a clinical health psychology speciality.
- Experience of working within a MDT team, showing respect for different approaches and a desire to work to collaboratively to enhance team cohesion and support.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a cancer service.
- Experience of psychological work with people with a range of physical health problems including medically unexplained symptoms.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
- Ability to engage people in psychological work who are experiencing complex biopsychosocial problems.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology.
- An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with cancer.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- An understanding of challenges that may be experienced going through diagnostic procedures.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to move flexibly between clinical demands and service development tasks.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to use Microsoft word to produce clinical reports and other documents as required by the CaPS Team.
- An ability to manage time and workload within tight sessional boundaries.
- Experience of service development.
- Experience of audit, project work and research.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
