Clinical/ Health/ Counselling Psychologist or Senior Psych Practitioner inPreston inPreston PUBLISHED 12 DEC 2023

Band 8a: £53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum, pro rata  PERMANENT 
Psychosocial education and support for health care professionals (including collaborative learning and reflection sessions) and ensuring continuous development and improvement.


Duties to include but not be limited to:


  • To provide an active role in the psycho-oncology collaborative, consultation and collaboration with NHS and voluntary sector providers is a key part of this role.
  • To contribute to the implementation, development and evaluation of the service.
  • Provide a highly specialised psychological therapy and assessment for patients with Cancer, in line with the best available evidence.
  • Work within the Macmillan pathway across LTHTr and UHMB.
  • Offer supervision in psychological skills to other less experienced psychological practitioners and to heath service staff working in the service.
  • To contribute to and facilitate a varied training programme for health care professionals.
  • To attend and contribute to triage meetings and contribute to highly specialist clinical health psychology discussions for patients living with cancer.
  • To provide integrated multidisciplinary care across the cancer specialist pathways.
  • Develop and engage in audit and research within the pathway to further the development of the pathway.
  • You will be a senior psychologist with demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level/grade.
  • There will be an expectation to work flexibly across the pathway as required.
  • To work in consultation and collaboration with the consultant clinical psychologist, clinical colleagues, service user engagement officer, project manager and key stakeholders in the Clinical Business Unit and Macmillan.
  • Routine research, audit, and the evaluation of this projects will be part of your duties.

This new Macmillan service aims to ensure that adults affected cancer experience excellent psychosocial care wherever they are on the cancer pathway. Active service user involvement is fundamental to the service aim to support personalised care and support for people affected by cancer in our population through:

  • Timely & equitable access to appropriate level 1-4 (NICE, 2004) mental health support integrated with cancer care clinical pathways
  • Improved coordination, proactive and integrated psycho-social support across primary, community, social and acute settings
  • Psychosocial education and support for health care professionals (including collaborative learning and reflection sessions) and ensuring continuous development and improvement
  • Improved integrated support for people with learning disabilities and pre-existing mental health conditions with cancer

This service has been funded collaboratively by Macmillan and Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance with the support of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB. The new exciting service will be hosted by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust and will sit within the established cancer psychology pathways at LTHTr and UHMB.

The service places a high value on service user involvement and the value of co-production and design in delivering personalised care. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience of cancer and/or long term physical health conditions

As a Principal Clinical Psychologist, your role will involve developing highly specialised clinical health psychology pathways for patients living with cancer based on NICE guidelines and Core Standards. You will be responsible for training and supporting MDT colleagues in delivering psychologically informed care and Level 2 psychological skills.

You will also play a key role in providing clinical supervision to MDT teams, ensuring high standards of psychological practice.

Contributing to the promotion of patient needs, clinical symptoms, and approaches to care within the MDT is essential, as is actively participating in the development of care pathways.

Collaboration is a critical aspect of this role. You will work closely with the consultant clinical psychologist, MDT colleagues, and key stakeholders, such as those within the Clinical Business Unit and Core Therapy colleagues. As well as the project manager, Macmillan and service user engagement officer. As a senior psychologist, you will bring demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level, meeting the demands of the role with a commitment to excellence.

There is an expectation for you to undertake extended roles and responsibilities as required and directed by the Head of the Clinical Health Psychology Services. There is also an aim to increase access to cancer care, so you will need to work flexibly across the cancer alliance in line with the project aims


Duties to include but not be limited to:


  • To provide an active role in the psycho-oncology collaborative, consultation and collaboration with NHS and voluntary sector providers is a key part of this role.
  • To contribute to the implementation, development and evaluation of the service.
  • Provide a highly specialised psychological therapy and assessment for patients with Cancer, in line with the best available evidence.
  • Work within the Macmillan pathway across LTHTr and UHMB.
  • Offer supervision in psychological skills to other less experienced psychological practitioners and to heath service staff working in the service.
  • To contribute to and facilitate a varied training programme for health care professionals.
  • To attend and contribute to triage meetings and contribute to highly specialist clinical health psychology discussions for patients living with cancer.
  • To provide integrated multidisciplinary care across the cancer specialist pathways.
  • Develop and engage in audit and research within the pathway to further the development of the pathway.
  • You will be a senior psychologist with demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level/grade.
  • There will be an expectation to work flexibly across the pathway as required.
  • To work in consultation and collaboration with the consultant clinical psychologist, clinical colleagues, service user engagement officer, project manager and key stakeholders in the Clinical Business Unit and Macmillan.
  • Routine research, audit, and the evaluation of this projects will be part of your duties.

This new Macmillan service aims to ensure that adults affected cancer experience excellent psychosocial care wherever they are on the cancer pathway. Active service user involvement is fundamental to the service aim to support personalised care and support for people affected by cancer in our population through:

  • Timely & equitable access to appropriate level 1-4 (NICE, 2004) mental health support integrated with cancer care clinical pathways
  • Improved coordination, proactive and integrated psycho-social support across primary, community, social and acute settings
  • Psychosocial education and support for health care professionals (including collaborative learning and reflection sessions) and ensuring continuous development and improvement
  • Improved integrated support for people with learning disabilities and pre-existing mental health conditions with cancer

This service has been funded collaboratively by Macmillan and Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance with the support of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB. The new exciting service will be hosted by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust and will sit within the established cancer psychology pathways at LTHTr and UHMB.

The service places a high value on service user involvement and the value of co-production and design in delivering personalised care. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience of cancer and/or long term physical health conditions

As a Principal Clinical Psychologist, your role will involve developing highly specialised clinical health psychology pathways for patients living with cancer based on NICE guidelines and Core Standards. You will be responsible for training and supporting MDT colleagues in delivering psychologically informed care and Level 2 psychological skills.

You will also play a key role in providing clinical supervision to MDT teams, ensuring high standards of psychological practice.

Contributing to the promotion of patient needs, clinical symptoms, and approaches to care within the MDT is essential, as is actively participating in the development of care pathways.

Collaboration is a critical aspect of this role. You will work closely with the consultant clinical psychologist, MDT colleagues, and key stakeholders, such as those within the Clinical Business Unit and Core Therapy colleagues. As well as the project manager, Macmillan and service user engagement officer. As a senior psychologist, you will bring demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level, meeting the demands of the role with a commitment to excellence.

There is an expectation for you to undertake extended roles and responsibilities as required and directed by the Head of the Clinical Health Psychology Services. There is also an aim to increase access to cancer care, so you will need to work flexibly across the cancer alliance in line with the project aims



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