Post-Qual Clinical Fellowship in Cancer & Palliative Psychology

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients and carers referred to the cancer and palliative care psychological support service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.

To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological concerns, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress throughout both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the cancer and palliative care psychological support service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

To liaise with referrers, MDTs, GPs and other professionals involved with patients in order to develop and review supportive care plans.

To maintain continuous contact and communication with colleagues & teams through MS Teams

To attend and contribute to Departmental operational activities and initiatives (e.g. Away Days)

KR 3 Policy and service development

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR 5 Management and supervision

To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of an assistant psychologist if required, under supervision from a more senior psychologist.

KR 6 Teaching and Training

To provide specialist training in psychological approaches to care to psychologists and other professions as appropriate, under the guidance of the clinical lead.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

To ensure that all clinical and operational information is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 8 Research and development

To contribute to service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.

To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC Standards for Continuing Professional Development.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

To comply with the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency, and ensure professional development in line with these.

To adhere to the BPSs Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.

KR 10 General

To travel to patient homes for clinical visits and to other community settings for meetings, within the Borough of Hillingdon and occasionally in the wider NWL area.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow trust policies relating to its management.

To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to support others involved in such situations.

To be prepared to work in person in a hospital inpatient and outpatient setting, following all hospital policies and procedures (e.g. dress codes, infection control) on the same basis as all other hospital staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) - current or anticipated by end-2026

Desirable

• A/A* at A-Level Psychologist
• First-Class Psychology Degree
• Peer-reviewed publication
• Post-doctoral qualification in a relevant area

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working under clinical supervision by a practitioner psychologist in a physical healthcare setting.

Desirable

• oExperience of working in an NHS or third-sector Cancer and Palliative Care setting
• oExperience of holding responsibility for multiprofessional teaching, training and supervision
• oExperience of holding responsible roles in industries outside healthcare

Other

Essential

• oTo have use of a car for travelling to and from community home visits efficiently.
• oTo be able to work flexibly across multiple locations in the hospital inpatient/outpatient setting as well as any community setting, for both clinical and administrative duties, as directed by the service lead.
• oAbility to maintain personal wellbeing and manage emotionally stressful situations, such as acute illness, healthcare-related trauma, system errors & failures and end of life care.

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

Hillingdon Hospital

Pield Heath Road

Hillingdon

UB8 3NN

Employer's website

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