Clinical: To deliver a highly specialist psychology service for people admitted as inpatients with a cancer diagnosis both with curative and palliative cancers, as well as those significantly involved. To provide a consultative approach to staff working in the inpatient context, and de-briefs and/or training when indicated. To help facilitate a collaborative and psychologically informed approach to managing cancer related distress and associated behaviour. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of psychosocial and medical information, 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 others involved as necessary. To collaboratively formulate and implement plans for a good psychological response in relation to an inpatient referral, identifying current psychological concerns, resources available, utilising a, who is this a problem for? approach. Alongside this, a range of approaches, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of main concerns will be used, employing methods based upon available current evidence of efficacy and effectiveness. To evaluate and make decisions about how best to approach cancer related distress considering theoretical and therapeutic models, and how power and privilege will have shaped the individual, family or group, as well as the staff referring or concerned. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, intervention and discharge of those accessing our service, ensuring that problems are managed by creative and flexible psychologically informed plans. To contribute directly and indirectly to psychological understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across contexts and agencies of those also involved. 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 when indicated. To communicate in a respectful, considered, timely, and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and plans of clients under their care and liaise within key multi-disciplinary teams/contexts. To develop/build therapeutic and theoretical competency in working with systems and groups, whether that is staff or people with and affected by cancer, e.g. families, or both. To provide supervision and management to junior colleagues. Teaching, training, and supervision To develop training packages for inpatient staff along with psychology colleagues, including. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior applied psychologist and, where appropriate, from other senior professional colleagues. To gain any additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to applied psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager). To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide reflective practice or supervision to other members of the multidisciplinary team as appropriate. To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and qualified psychological practitioners. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. Management, recruitment, policy and service development To deliver an inpatient psychology service with a steer from senior colleagues. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To manage the workloads of clinical/counselling psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures and be responsible for performance management, appraisal and recruitment. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists and psychological therapists. To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and developing the psychology service. Research and service evaluation To contribute to the development of services, both locally and nationally, through initiating, undertaking and supervising complex service evaluation and audit of the inpatient service. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues/service users within the service to help develop and inform service provision. To consider ways to meaningfully involve service user feedback in the development of the inpatient service. To initiate, design and recruit to psychological research studies within the context of the Team and assist with writing up. To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through publications in peer reviewed journals and oral presentations internally and at national and international conferences. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. General To have established an area of specialist clinical or research skills relevant to work within the adult cancer setting through personal development plans agreed with the post-holders manager. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service managers. To have developed skills in clinical supervision, in selection and recruitment, and in other areas of service development appropriate to the post, through attending relevant courses and through collaboration with more senior colleagues. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional and clinical supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of applied psychology and related disciplines. To maintain 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 Care Professions Council, British Psychological Society, and Trust policies and procedures. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.