Psychologist in Oncology
| Posting date: | 27 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2024 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9218-24-0998 |
Summary
To take clinical responsibility and service management for the provision of high quality psychological services to individuals referred to the Oncology Psychology Service for support related to their diagnosis and treatment for cancer. This includes both inpatient and outpatient settings. The post holder will be expected to have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in order to deliver highly specialist psychological assessments of patients, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological and physical health information collected from a variety of sources including psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in their care. To formulate, make decisions and implement highly specialist plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patients mental health/physical health difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients difficulties, and employing evidence-based, effective interventions. To be responsible for devising and implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups with the Oncology service, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical culture and developmental and physical health processes that have shaped the individual or system. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals and agencies outside the Trust when necessary, contributing directly to the patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team to have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding the issues for the patients under our care, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This may include the provision of clinical supervision and reflective practice as appropriate. For further details please see the attached job description.