Job responsibilities
2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY
The
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance (WY&HCA) brings together six
acute Trusts (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS
Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS
Foundation Trust Harrogate and District Foundation Trust) across the West
Yorkshire and Harrogate and the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to share
best practice and innovation, identifying and addressing unwarranted
variation, integrating care pathways, collating intelligence to support
providers to provide patient-centred high quality and cost effective care.
This post is a project funded by an innovation bid from the WY&H Cancer Alliance to help
facilitate cross system collaboration and provide a clinical steer for the
development of a WY&H Cancer strategy for improving the psychologically
informed care for all patients and families affected by cancer. This includes
shaping the delivery of psychological therapies to ensure they meet the needs
of people affected by cancer across the whole pathway; from diagnosis,
through treatment to living with cancer and during end of life care.
Summary
of Main Duties and Responsibilities
Lead the Task & finish group to
establish and deliver a detailed project plan to produce a pan-WY&H
pathway and service specification for psychological support for people
affected by cancer.
Develop strategic relationships and
partnership working with service users, commissioners, clinical leads in
primary care (cancer and mental health), IAPT, CMHT, hospices and
psycho-oncology services across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.
Explore and compile information
regarding existing provision and pathways including examples from outside
West Yorkshire and Harrogate.
Plan, coordinate and lead a series
of focus groups/ workshops/ engagement events across West Yorkshire and
Harrogate.
Through an iterative process of
consulting stakeholders, develop a high quality patient-centred pathway and
service specification. These will encompass patient experience, quality &
safety, efficiency and effectiveness, commissioning perspectives and takes
account of existing contextual opportunities and constraints
As appropriate, identify aspects of
the pathway and service specification that may vary depending on local
considerations
Work with service providers to
identify models for sharing skills, knowledge and education that will support
the development of community provision including primary care.
Quantify the provision required
across settings to deliver the pathway, and describe the processes required
for assuring quality & outcomes across the pathway
Ensure that relevant commissioners
and provider networks are engaged in developing resources and endorse the
findings.
To carry out other appropriate
delegated duties as required by the Line Manager
Shared responsibility for a
delegated budget from a budget for a department/service
Clinical
Use
high-level professional knowledge of clinical assessment and intervention
relevant to psycho-oncology to:
inform pathway development
inform and evaluate models for
sharing skills and knowledge
inform the configuration of
services & teams to ensure optimal care delivery
inform and evaluate models of
supervision and quality assurance
This
Post requires recent experience of the rest of the following Job Description:
The
systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service , across
sites and sectors of care by:
a) Providing highly specialist
psychological assessment, therapy and supervision
b) Offering advice and consultation on
patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist
colleagues and to other non-professional
carers
c) Developing systems to promote
efficient and equitable delivery of care
d) Clinical and professional supervision
of colleagues
e) Using research skills for audit,
policy and service development and leading on research projects within the
area served by the team/service
f) Working autonomously in the delivery
of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature
and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health
Psychology and Trust policies and procedures.
1. JOB DIMENSIONS
Core:
Develop and maintain communication
with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
Develop oneself and others in areas
of practice
Promote, monitor and maintain best
practice in health, safety and security
Appraise, interpret and apply
suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services
Contribute to improving quality
Promote equality and diversity.
Health
and well-being:
Plan, develop and implement programmes
to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and
wellbeing
Assess complex health and wellbeing
needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet those needs
Implement aspects of a protection
plan and review its effectiveness
Assess physiological and
psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated
abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop, monitor and review related
treatment plans
Plan, deliver and evaluate
interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious
illness.
Information
and knowledge;
Plan, develop and evaluate methods
and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and
information.
General;
Plan, deliver and review interventions
to enable people to learn and develop
Test and review new concepts,
models, methods, practices, products and equipment
Monitor expenditure
Plan, coordinate and monitor the
delivery of services and/or projects
Plan, allocate and supervise the
work of a team
5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
REQUIRED
Qualifications
Essential:
Post graduate doctoral level
training in clinical psychology, including specific models of
psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more
distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as
accredited by the British Psychological Society.
Desirable:
Pre-qualification
training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or
other fields of applied psychology
Training
Essential:
Completion of formal clinical
supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees
Registration as a Clinical
Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (or other domain title
as agreed)
Further training in a specialised
area of clinical practice through formal post- doctoral training (diploma or
equivalent)
or
a combination of specialist short
courses together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice based
learning in a specialist area of clinical practice as assessed by an
experienced clinical supervisor to be of equivalent level to a postgraduate
diploma.
Desirable:
Post-doctoral training in one or
more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Special
knowledge including experience
Essential:
Assessed significant experience and
competencies from working as a qualified clinical psychologist including
significant post-qualification experience within the designated specialty
where the post is located
Experience of working with a wide
variety of patient groups, across the whole life course, presenting problems
that reflect the full range of clinical severity 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 specialist
psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of
care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient
settings.
Desirable:
Qualified experience of working
with multi-disciplinary teams and supervising healthcare staff
Experience of working in staff
support within an acute healthcare setting
Experience of working in medical
multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact
on the team functioning in patient care
Knowledge of specialist therapy
models (e.g., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT], Compassion Focused
Therapy [CFT] and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing [EMDR]) and their application in staff support
Experience of representing
psychology in meetings with service planners/commissioners to plan the
pathways across a variety of services.
Behaviours:
Essential:
Experience of exercising full clinical
responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, both as a
professionally qualified care co-ordinator (or equivalent in a physical
healthcare setting) and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care
plan
Experience of teaching, training
and provision of professional and clinical supervision
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.
Practical
Skills:
Essential:
Skills in the use of complex
methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently
requiring sustained and intense concentration
Well-developed skills in the
ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly
technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their
families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside
the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to
other professional and non-professional groups.
