Macmillan Clinical Psychologist in Schwartz Rounds & Psycho-oncology

Job description

Job responsibilities

Schwartz Rounds

1. To support the project team & lead to develop and deliver a planned annual program of Schwartz Rounds at Imperial.
2. To develop and demonstrate a high level of understanding of staff experience, and a high level of skill in engaging with a diverse range of staff to facilitate and promote their access to Schwartz Rounds as supporters, panellists or audiences.
3. To support and develop the assistant psychologist and work with them to coordinate all operational aspects of Schwartz Rounds (including communications & relationships, bookings, materials, data, etc).
4. To recruit, mentor, develop and engage a wide group of Schwartz facilitators.

Psycho-oncology

1. To develop (and/or extend) expertise in psycho-oncology, and exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, care planning, treatment and follow-up of patients & carers with cancer and psychosocial vulnerabilities/complexities.
2. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care, so that all patients & carers affected by cancer, across all settings and agencies in cancer care, benefit from psychologically-informed care.
3. To evaluate, propose and advise on cancer psychological care plans, taking into account the specifics of the cancer pathway, patient values, preferences and priorities, multiple therapeutic and adjustment models, highly complex psychosocial factors and the capabilities and limitations of the broader cancer support system.
4. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients, and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in the context of cancer care.
5. To work actively and collaboratively with a wide range of clinical and nonclinical, acute and community, colleagues, services and agencies, towards an integrated cancer psychosocial care pathway (e.g. CNSs, AHPs, IAPT, Cancer third-sector, social prescribing etc).

Teaching, training, and supervision

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from the Head of Clinical Health Psychology or her delegate and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology as agreed with the Head of Clinical Health Psychology.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision.
4. To provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
5. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
6. To provide professional and clinical supervision of junior qualified, trainee and assistant clinical psychologists.
7. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical (and other applied) psychology.
8. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
5. The post holder will be required to attend and contribute to the regular professional meetings of the Clinical Health Psychology Specialty and other Departmental meetings.

Research and service evaluation

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To contribute to the development of research projects and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
3. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
4. The post holder will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data and provide this to the Service Manager/Departmental Head when necessary.
5. The postholder will engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.
6. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that those psychologists they are responsible for/supervise engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data.

General

1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholders professional and service manager(s).
2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
3. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic dat entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To be noted:

1. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
2. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
3. The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information, clinical governance including research governance.

Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counseling 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.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a CMHT or similar complex care service working with patients with complexity and co-morbidity
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of supervising other mental health staff.

KNOWLEDGE AND 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, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Post-Qualification practice of CBT or other evidence-based psychological therapies.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation and policy in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialized psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Post-qualification training and accreditation in CBT or other evidence-based psychological therapies
• Knowledge and experience of implementing evidencebased psychological therapies for people with trauma and complex emotional needs.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Clinical Health Psychology Dept

St Mary's Hospital

London

W2 1NY

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)