The Clinical Psychologist will work with in-patients and out-patients and there are ample opportunities to collaborate with other Palliative Services, contribute to the national initiatives and develop research opportunities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join PCH’s dynamic Palliative Care Service. The post holder will get the opportunity to develop their clinical and leadership skills within an acute hospital and hospice setting.
The post holder will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to patients with specialist palliative care needs at end-of-life. The Clinical Psychologist will be based at Peterborough City Hospital, working as part of the multidisciplinary team.
The postwill provide and manage a highly specialist Clinical Psychology Service to Palliative Care. They will be responsible for participation in the development and implementation of strategic plans that enable service improvements and innovation, including implementation of relevant NICE guidelines and other strategic guidance.
The post holder will be expected to work across palliative care in-patient and out-patient services, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapy. The post holder will also offer advice and consultation on client’s psychological care to colleagues within Palliative Care and to other, non-professional carers, working within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Divisions policies and procedures.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
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· Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests where appropriate, 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.
· To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural, and biological factors.
· To assist the medical team in communicating difficult, complex, and sensitive information which is both developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed.
· To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across hospital and community-based teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· To evaluate and make decisions about psychological 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.
· To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
· To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
· To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
· To undertake assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with hospital and inter-agency policies and procedures.
· To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
· Provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
· To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Nov 2024