Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology - Cancer Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 186-334-24-MH-A
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Duncan Macmillan House
- Town
- Nottinghamshire
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Home Based Clinical/Counselling Psychologist In Cancer Care
Band 8a
Job overview
In this home-based role, you will join a highly supportive and innovative team as part of the East Midlands Cancer Alliance Centre for Psychosocial Health. The Centre seeks to pursue excellence in training, clinical practice, and research. The team is part of the Physical Health Psychology Team recognised by The Health Service Journal Awards, Macmillan Cancer Support Awards, The Health Business Awards, and Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust’s Outstanding Service Contribution and Recognition Scheme.
The post-holder will contribute to multiple innovations developed by the team. This includes providing psychological skills training and supervision for cancer care staff and remote psychological therapy for people affected by cancer across the region.
The service is motivated to provide high quality personal and professional development, alongside opportunities to engage in high impact research output. The team have excellent links with local universities and DClinPsy courses providing opportunity for supervision, teaching and research.
The wider Physical Health Psychology team contributes to a variety of physical health specialties and colleague wellbeing. It is well connected with national initiatives in clinical health psychology.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 29th May.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the team, you will provide the full range of psycho-oncology services across the East Midlands, with a focus on areas of greatest need where there is little or no psychology provision. The EMCA Centre for Psychosocial Health consists of qualified and assistant clinical psychologists, supported by a team secretary and provide high quality, remote, specialist psychological assessment and therapy for individuals affected by cancer with complex physical and psychological health needs.
You will offer consultation, supervision and training for non-psychologist cancer professionals across health, social care and the voluntary and community sectors, spanning primary and secondary care. You will utilise research skills to contribute to the evaluation of the service, as well as for innovative service developments.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the team in the delivery of a remote psychological care pathway across the East Midlands Cancer Alliance region (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire & Rutland), provide remote specialised assessment and evidence based interventions to referred cancer patients across the East Midlands, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust policies and procedures.
Provide clinical supervision to an assistant psychologist and/or trainee clinical psychologists and support to other clinical psychologists/trainee clinical psychologists in the team.
Support and supervise non psychology colleagues e.g. students and other cancer professionals, in psychological aspects of their work with patients and their families.
Offer remote consultation, teaching, training and advice to cancer professionals across the East Midlands. Work closely with the “level 2 cancer” nurse specialists.
Assist the Principal Clinical Psychologists for the EMCA Centre for Psychosocial Health in developing and delivering evidence based psychological programmes and self management material.
Liaise with and facilitate access to mental health services, IAPT services and third sector support services as appropriate.
Utilise research and supervision skills.
To assist in the promotion of the service and dissemination of relevant psychologically informed practice across the wider health system, as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling psychology
- Registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
- Completion of post-doctoral supervisor training workshop programme (or equivalent individual workshops)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of using a range of psychological therapy models with patients with cancer or other complex health conditions
- Experience of neuropsychological assessments
- Experience of supervising qualified and trainee Clinical/Counselling/Assistant Psychologists
- Experience of training/supervising physical healthcare staff
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team in a physical health setting
- Experience of research/service evaluation in a physical healthcare setting
- Experience of using remote methods of communication (video/telephone) to support patients/carers
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of the impact of cancer or other long-term/life limiting conditions
- Knowledge of a range of psychological therapy models relevant for working in cancer services
- Knowledge of models of clinical supervision/reflective practice
- Knowledge and understanding of research methodologies and carrying out literature searches
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the application of the research process in NHS settings
- Critical appreciation of NICE guidance for Supportive and Palliative Care and its application in psycho-oncology services
Skills
Essential criteria
- High level interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to establish rapport and build relationships with patients and careers and colleagues both verbally (via video and telephone) and in writing
- Presentation skills for training staff, presenting research findings and promoting the service
- Word, Powerpoint, Excel, video-conferencing software e.g. MS Teams
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and in collaboration with clinical and management team
- Excellent organisational and self-management skills
- Ability to support junior staff to manage workloads
- Highly motivated and keen to develop self and service
- Demonstrates ability to work effectively as team member
- Capacity to accept constructive feedback and modify practice accordingly
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Dr Felicity Gibbons & Dr Adam Hill
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologists, EMCA CPH
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500991626
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