We are looking for someone passionate about working with people with cancer, who has excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues.

• Interview Date Wednesday, 25 September 2024
• 15 Hours/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will join the Clinical Psychology team at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital, in providing a specialist clinical psychology service to both oncology and haematology.

The role includes direct clinical work in a variety of settings, alongside provision of consultation, supervision, teaching, training and research & development.

Essential requirements include doctoral level training in clinical /counselling psychology (or equivalent) and registration with the HCPC.

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of �1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To provide a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service within the service in which this post is located, providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
• Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

• o Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent conferring eligibility for registration with HCPC as either a Clinical Psychologist or a Counselling Psychologist) including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
• o HCPC registration.
• o Doctorate (or equivalent) level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Desirable

• o Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• o Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• o Post qualification experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• o Computer literate - competent use of email/internet and patient information systems for electronic clinical records and diary management as appropriate.

Desirable

• o Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• o Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
• o Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities, etc.)
• o Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• o Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• o In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical/counselling psychologist, has additional knowledge of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist in the patient population served by this post.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• o Further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for Doctoral trainees.
• o Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• o 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.
• o Well developed skills in the ability to empathise and 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.
• o Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• o Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post - community-based work.
• o Well-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Employer details

Employer name

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Freeman Hospital

317 01 Freeman Hospital

NE7 7DN

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317-2024-35-08-DR