Specialist Psychologist Palliative Care | London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £73,961 per annum inc hca |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, UB1 3HW |
| Company: | London North West Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6157119/337-NP-7412BS-B |
Summary
Meadow House is an NHS Hospice providing specialist palliative and end-of-life care services to the residents of Ealing and Hounslow. It includes a 15-bed inpatient unit and an active day hospice. Patients are admitted to Meadow House in order to manage their symptoms, including pain control, and to undergo planned respite care and end of life care.
The Macmillan Psycho-oncology Service (MPoS), provides Meadow House with psychological expertise. MPoS operates within a model of stepped care and is therefore integrated into the wider staff team of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
The role holder will:
• Provide a specialist psychology service to palliative care patients and families including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• Contribute to enabling other staff, service users, families and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe and informed environment.
• Provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
• Undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
• As required, contribute to other clinical activities of MPoS at Ealing Hospital.
• Work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies, standards and procedures of the service, Psychological Services Network and Trust, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
Beyond cancer services, MPoS is part of the wider Psychological Services Network (PSN) that brings together psychological specialists across the trust. The role includes participation in the teaching and service development activities of PSN.
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Key responsibilities
Clinical:
1. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of patients, relatives & carers referred to Psychological Support Service at Meadow House Hospice (on an inpatient, outpatient and as appropriate home visit basis) based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and other professionals involved in the patient’s
1. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and/or management, drawing upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional
1. To make highly skilled evaluations and 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
1. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups
1. When necessary, provide crisis intervention for those suffering severe psychological reactions
1. To contribute across services to ensure that psychological interventions / management strategies contribute to a coherent and optimal package of
1. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment and discharge of patients from the service, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular
1. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment
1. To ensure that all professionals within the Palliative Care Services at Meadow House Hospice have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice, consultation, supervision and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and
1. To provide expertise and advice to MDTs to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological
1. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
1. With support from the Lead Psychologist, ensure that referrals to the service are appropriately screened and
1. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients and to monitor and evaluate progress.
1. To work closely with the Specialist Palliative Care team and as required, contribute to the psychological service provided for patients (and their families) with non-malignant conditions.
1. To provide expert consultation about the psychological care to staff and agencies outside the
1. To work closely with other services providing psychological care in North West London to ensure that patients, families and other professionals experience a well-co-ordinated and coherent clinical
Teaching, training and supervision:
1. To develop specialist teaching to other professionals regarding the psychological factors related to clinical work within cancer services.
1. To adhere to professional practice guidelines of clinical
1. To provide, after appropriate training and experience, post-qualification training and clinical and professional supervision to assistant and/or trainee clinical psychologists attached to the Macmillan Psycho-oncology Team, and to other health disciplines (where agreed locally), e.g. physicians, physiotherapists, nurse, as
1. To provide specialist advice, consultation and training to MDTs for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve patient functioning and quality of
1. To contribute to the psychological components of recognised teaching and training courses. Including medical students, Clinical Psychology trainees, and other professionals within training posts
1. To maintain and develop expertise in the area of professional pre and post-graduate training and clinical
1. To establish joint initiatives (relating to service development, teaching, training and supervision) with other services providing psychological care across North West London
Policy and service development:
1. To contribute to the development and implementation of multi-disciplinary healthcare policy and
1. To contribute to the development of the clinical psychology services within the Trust. Implementing internal evaluation and monitoring work, service developments. Attending planning meetings as necessary and to take on the responsibility of specific projects under supervision of the Consultant
1. To provide support to developments and inter-agency working within NW London
Research and service evaluation:
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
1. To initiate and develop research programmes within the fields of palliative care services and to facilitate and advise on psychological components of other research programmes within the
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work, work with other team members and across the
1. To participate in project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to patients and their
General:
1. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development
1. To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related
1. To ensure 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 of the Health and Care Professions Council, the British Psychological Society and any other statutory regulatory bodies and Trust policies and
1. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient groups, clinical/counselling psychology and mental
1. To work with the Lead Psychologist in prioritising aspects of the role relative to the working hours
1. The post holder must maintain the confidentiality about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the Code of Confidentiality or Personal Health Data, the Korner Report on Confidentiality, the Data Protection Act 1984, Health and Care Professions Council requirements, the BPS Code of Conduct and the DCP Guidelines for Professional Practice
This advert closes on Friday 19 Apr 2024