Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 26.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-AO6757
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum plus HCAS pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Reg (HCPC) Principal Clinical/Counselling Health Psychologist
Band 8b
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
This is a rare and exciting career development opportunity for a clinical/counselling psychologist to lead a compassionate, committed psycho-oncology team (MaPS – Macmillan Psychologist Support) and a small psychological service in the Rapid Diagnostic Clinic (RDC) at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
The MaPS team provides psychological assessment and intervention to patients and their significant others across the cancer pathway, as inpatients and outpatients, as well as training, supervision, consultation and support to multi-disciplinary colleagues. There is scope to develop innovative services, with strong support from the Personalised Care Lead and Head of Nursing for Cancer and Haematology.
The RDC psychology team offers a pioneering service which aims to ensure patients attending for investigation of non-specific suspected cancer symptoms, are offered an holistic service, identifying contributory psychological factors and working with patients to ensure these are addressed through brief intervention or thoughtful onward referral.
Both teams are highly valued and well-supported by committed multi-disciplinary colleagues. This role would suit someone wishing to develop their leadership skills within a supportive service which is strongly focused on meeting the needs of the local community.
Main duties of the job
Both teams have a cancer focus; the RDC also allows the post-holder to retain a breadth of clinical experience in covering a wide range of psychological presentations.
This role primarily involves managing and developing the LGT psycho-oncology team (MaPS) (0.6wte) and the RDC psychology service (0.1wte). The MaPS team includes another clinical psychologist role, two psychotherapists and an Assistant Psychologist. The RDC team is a multi-disciplinary medical team and the psychological service is provided by an 8a clinical psychologist.
The postholder will work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to support and develop psychologically-informed working across cancer services. This post would suit an enthusiastic, passionate psychologist who is ready to take on greater leadership responsibility in a well-supported role with an experienced, compassionate team.
This is a cross site post, working at both at University Hospital Lewisham and at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich .
Working for our organisation
Both the MaPS and RDC teams are driven by strong patient-centered values to support the delivery of psychologically-informed care across the pathway. We work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues in innovative ways and have a dynamic and supportive leadership team within cancer services. LGT cancer services work hard to serve their local diverse community in a holistic and inclusive manner. We work closely with psycho-oncology teams at Guy’s and St Thomas’s and King’s College Hospital trusts and have strong support from the Personalised Care team in the South East London Cancer Alliance.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Both teams have a cancer focus; the RDC also allows the post-holder to retain a breadth of clinical experience in covering a wide range of psychological presentations.
This role primarily involves managing and developing the LGT psycho-oncology team (MaPS) (0.6wte) and the RDC psychology service (0.1wte). The MaPS team includes another clinical psychologist role, two psychotherapists and an Assistant Psychologist. The RDC team is a multi-disciplinary medical team and the psychological service is provided by an 8a clinical psychologist.
The postholder will work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to support and develop psychologically-informed working across cancer services. This post would suit an enthusiastic, passionate psychologist who is ready to take on greater leadership responsibility in a well-supported role with an experienced, compassionate team.
This is a cross site post, working at both at University Hospital Lewisham and at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich .
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or equivalent
- Registered with HCPC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a clinical specialist under supervision and acquired knowledge and skills equivalent 8a
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a cancer diagnosis
- Experience of supervising psychologists and providing teaching and training to psychologists and other professions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of recruitment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having completed KSF outline at second gateway level for Band 8a
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for patients being seen in a general hospital setting
- Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of psychological disorders in the context of general medical complaints
- Evidence of continuing training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal postdoctoral training (diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses OR an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a postgraduate diploma
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for patients with cancer
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
- Maxine Beckett-Smythe
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing and Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07811959559
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