Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £66,653 – £77,094 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
St Luke’s Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey County Hospital are recruiting to a 3 day a week fixed term post (one year duration). The post requires skills in staff consultation, training and MDT work and previous experience of working in cancer services.
The purpose of this post is to work closely with a range of leads in the cancer service and the thriving wellbeing centre and counselling service (The Fountain Centre) to develop a level 4 psychology service that both complements the existing wellbeing offer within the cancer centre.
You will work with clinicians, and clinical and strategy leads to shape the future of level 4 psychology in cancer care locally.
You will be part of a network of around 30 psychologists specializing in physical health who are employed by Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust and work into a range of local physical and mental health services and specialisms. Your supervision and management will be provided through this network.
Main duties of the job
Over the course of the year you will work with clinical leads to:
– Establish and evaluate an MDT focusing on psychological care.
– Provision of level 2 training.
– Psychological consultations to clinicians and teams
– Clinical supervision.
– Level 4 clinical consultations with patients
– Joint working with specialist clinicians
– Work with clinical and data specialists to generate data on the impact of the level 4 service.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description document attached for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications required
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
- Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees
Desirable criteria
- Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work
- Additional leadership/management study
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting
- Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work.
- Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies
- Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation
- Demonstrable experience of developing complex formulations drawing on multiple psychological models
- Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
