Macmillan Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (Cancer & Pall Care) inUxbridge inUxbridge PUBLISHED
FRI 29 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include conducting psychological assessments, developing treatment plans, implementing various psychological interventions, and providing consultation and guidance to other healthcare professionals. The role also involves ensuring culturally appropriate care, effective communication of assessment outcomes, and monitoring patient progress. The psychologist will participate in multidisciplinary meetings, contribute to service evaluations and improvements, and provide supervision as needed.
Candidates should possess autonomy in their practice while adhering to relevant professional guidelines and service policies. The team values a supportive and collaborative environment, and potential candidates are encouraged to engage in informal discussions about the position.
We welcome colleagues with an interest in the specialty of Cancer and Palliative Care, who value a warm team environment and scope to develop under expert supervision of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
This role is a well-established part of a Consultant-led multi-professional Psycho-oncology team, co-located with cancer & palliative care clinical MDTs, and supported by the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Hillingdon Hospital and the CNWL Psychological Professions network.
This is a part-time 0.6 WTE role, involving onsite hospital-based inpatient & outpatient work, with occasional community home-based palliative care work (for which, use of a car is advantageous). Onsite working is required most of the time.
We figure a good informal chat is the best advert, please call us to discuss or arrange a visit.
Key Responsibilities in Clinical Care
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To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients and carers referred to the cancer and palliative care psychological support service
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To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's psychological concerns, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.
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Toprovide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
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To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
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To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress throughout both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
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To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
Please see full description in the attached JD document.
About us
Job Purpose:
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To provide a specialist psychology service to cancer and palliative patients and their carers, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
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To support the specialist community palliative care team (CNWL), Hospital Palliative Care Team (The Hillingdon Hospital) and cancer services (The Hillingdon Hospital) by providing a direct clinical service and via attendance at multidisciplinary meetings.
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To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
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To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
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To undertake service evaluation, quality improvement, audit and research.
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To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
Please see full JD attached.