Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist: Oncology
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 Per annum pro rata including HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6194994/393-NMUH-1153-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated, enthusiastic and creative Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH). This is a part time, permanent post based in the Psycho-Oncology Department.
This is a Macmillan Professionals role, as such you will have access to learning courses and grants to improve your knowledge in the area and help people living with cancer.
The post is advertised at 0.4 WTE, however could be combined with another vacancy (0.4WTE in Cardiology) for those seeking more hours. There is the opportunity for flexible working.
In psycho-oncology the post holder will join a 0.8 WTE Band 7 psychologist for whom they will assume responsibility for Clinical Supervision.
You will be asked to provide a high quality, specialized clinical psychology service to clients in Cardiology services across all relevant areas in NMUH. This includes: specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy as well as offering advice, supervision, training and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues. There are good opportunities for service development.
NMUH is situated in North London with good transport links and numerous car parks.
Clinical responsibilities:
Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, across Oncology services.
Implementing a range of psychological interventions.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals.
Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
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.
Communicate across language and cultural barriers by communicating with patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or advocates.
Provide clinical supervision to other psychologists and non-psychologists as required.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
As well as clinical duties:
Receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinical psychologist.
Provide supervision and training to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
Provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee, assistant and qualified clinical psychologists when appropriate.
Provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
Undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Participate in project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Contribute to the development of the clinical psychology services within the Trust.
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.
Ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service.
Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated, enthusiastic and creative Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH). This is a part time, permanent post based in the Psycho-Oncology Department.
This is a Macmillan Professionals role, as such you will have access to learning courses and grants to improve your knowledge in the area and help people living with cancer.
The post is advertised at 0.4 WTE, however could be combined with another vacancy (0.4WTE in Cardiology) for those seeking more hours. There is the opportunity for flexible working.
In psycho-oncology the post holder will join a 0.8 WTE Band 7 psychologist for whom they will assume responsibility for Clinical Supervision.
You will be asked to provide a high quality, specialized clinical psychology service to clients in Cardiology services across all relevant areas in NMUH. This includes: specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy as well as offering advice, supervision, training and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues. There are good opportunities for service development.
NMUH is situated in North London with good transport links and numerous car parks.
Clinical responsibilities:
Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, across Oncology services.
Implementing a range of psychological interventions.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals.
Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
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.
Communicate across language and cultural barriers by communicating with patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or advocates.
Provide clinical supervision to other psychologists and non-psychologists as required.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
As well as clinical duties:
Receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinical psychologist.
Provide supervision and training to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
Provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee, assistant and qualified clinical psychologists when appropriate.
Provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
Undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Participate in project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Contribute to the development of the clinical psychology services within the Trust.
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.
Ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service.
Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024
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