Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 434-SCS7301546
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 7
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
This post has developed as part of an exciting restructuring of psychological provision to cancer patients across Buckinghamshire.
The post holder will join an established Cancer Psychology team (of Clinical Psychologists and Psychotherapist), and work within a multi-disciplinary context in the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Oncology and Haematology Service), providing i) specialist psychological assessment and interventions, ii) work with the couples/family when necessary and iii) advice and consultation regarding patients to non-psychologist colleagues and iv) deliver staff teaching and training.
There will opportunities to work closely with colleagues from the cancer pathway within Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies , as well as primary care and third sector providers across the county. There will be opportunities to be involved in service improvement. The service has strong links with Oxford and Herts Clinical Psychology Training courses.
One day a week will be development time, providing a clinical service to other medical specialities as part of the department’s commitment to equal access to psychological support for BHT patients.
Main duties of the job
You will work within a multi-disciplinary context in the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Oncology and Haematology Service providing a psychological service to patients who have been diagnosed with cancer or haematological condition and their families. There are opportunities to be involved in the development of this provision, especially in relation to providing group interventions and working across organisational boundaries (Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust, Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies and primary care). As part of the MDT you will provide advice and consultation regarding patients to non-psychologist colleagues and deliver teaching and training.
The post will be based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and travelling to other sites across the county will be essential.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Supervised experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the lifespan and presenting with a wide range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, inpatient, community and residential care settings
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting working with people with physical health problems
- Experience of working as a psychological therapist with people with a palliative or cancer diagnosis
- Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of teaching and training non-psychologists
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in either: Clinical or Counselling Psychology (post graduate doctoral and HCPC registered), or appropriate post-graduate Psychotherapy or Counselling qualification that confers registration and full accreditation with UKCP.
- HCPC registered or UKCP/BACP registered as appropriate to profession
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in a therapeutic model that includes working with depression and anxiety.
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in assessing and working with people with complex psychological, health and social difficulties
- Well-developed skills in effective verbal and writing communication especially in relation to highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Capacity to work as part of a team and engage in organisational innovations.
- Capacity to work consistently in a professional manner.
- Ability to prioritise effectively regarding clinical needs.
- Knowledge and skills in the application of psychological/therapeutic models within a physical health setting
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional grou
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
- Enjoys being creative in methods of service provision
- 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.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Enthusiasm for the application of psychological/therapeutic models in an acute hospital setting.
- Passionate about working in multidisciplinary teams and improving team working
Special Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Must be able to travel between hospital sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Marfleet
- Job title
- Macmillan Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01296838523
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