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

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the specialitybased upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data froma variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-reportmeasures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client'scare.

Review JD for full details

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

Take a tour of our hospital here

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the specialitybased upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data froma variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-reportmeasures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clientscare.2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/ormanagement of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriateconceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based uponevidence of efficacy, across all relevant Oncology settings.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions forindividuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individuallyand in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upondifferent explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account boththeoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historicaland developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment anddischarge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standardcare plans.6. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to otherprofessionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatmentplan.7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework ofunderstanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settingsand agencies serving the client group

8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and toprovide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment andrisk management.9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiatingplanning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents andothers involved the network of care.10. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning theassessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and tomonitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.11. Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including working for sustainedperiods of time by communicating with patients, carers or groups throughprofessional 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/ormental needs.13. Develop and maintain knowledge of local resources and relationships with relevantstatutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.14. Develop and propose innovative responses to identified community needs incollaboration and consultation with senior colleagues.

Review the JD for further details

After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• 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 ones own knowledge and skills, and to seek appropriate guidance where necessary

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including, physical health problems, outpatient, community, clinic and in patient 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

Desirable

• 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

Personal qualities

Essential

• Compassionate, flexible, sensitive and committed
• Enthusiasm for multidisciplinary working with a thoughtful approach to developing psychological services within this context

Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

Other requirements

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health

Desirable

• Personal experience of mental health/health problems.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Employer details

Employer name

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Clinical Health Psychology, North Middlesex Hospital

Sterling Way, London

London

N18 1QX

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

393-NMUH-2013