Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist Post- Oncology
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. 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.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the specialty based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across all relevant Oncology settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To 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.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. 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.
8. To 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.
9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
11. Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including working for sustained periods of time by communicating with patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or advocates.
12. Spend sustained amounts of time with individuals who may be aggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication and/or self-care skills and special physical and/or mental needs.
13. Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
14. Develop and propose innovative responses to identified community needs in collaboration and consultation with senior colleagues.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* 2:1 honours degree or above in Psychology
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS
* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
* Advanced keyboard, database, spreadsheet and statistical package skills
Skills and abilities
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to "hold" the stress of others
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
* Ability to recognise the extent and limitations of one's own knowledge and skills, and to seek appropriate guidance where necessary
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in patients with long term physical health problems, including those with cardiac related problems
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including, physical health problems, outpatient, community, clinic and inpatient settings
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
* Experience of teaching and training.
* Experience of supervising other qualified psychologists
* Experience of working with physical health problems and services
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
* Experience of working as a Psychologist in a Psycho-Oncology Department
* Experience working as a highly specialist psychologist and carrying the responsibilities that accompany this role
* Compassionate, flexible, sensitive and committed
* Enthusiasm for multidisciplinary working with a thoughtful approach to developing psychological services within this context
Values
* Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Other requirements
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
* Personal experience of mental health/health problems.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Clinical Health Psychology, North Middlesex Hospital
£59,490 to £66,239 a year pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
393-NMUH-2013
Job locations
Clinical Health Psychology, North Middlesex Hospital
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