Macmillan Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Employer:

NHS Jobs

Location:

Wednesbury, Walsall, WS10 8SY

Pay:

£47,810.00 to £62,682.00 per year, £47810.00 - £62682.00 a year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

06/03/2026

• Clinical Provide a specialist clinical service to patients and their families who have been diagnosed with cancer and other life limiting conditions.

Assess and interpret highly complex clinical situations and information from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, structured observations and semi structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.

Develop formulations and use psychological models and frameworks to provide patients and their families with specialised programmes of care, based on evidence of efficacy, to help them adjust to and cope emotionally with the often significantly distressing aspects of cancer as a long term condition or terminal illness.

This may occur in individual or group settings.

Organise, coordinate and facilitate therapeutic group work including self management groups (Fatigue Anxiety and Sleep, Managing Stress Mindfully) and support groups ( Men and Cancer), and develop other groups that may be of benefit for patients, in collaboration with the existing psychologist Evaluate and make decisions about 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.

Develop trusting and empathic relationships with patients and be able to communicate highly emotive information with clarity and sensitivity.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

Participate in relevant multi-disciplinary teams and work collaboratively and in an integrated manner with other health professionals eg Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physical Therapists, Counsellors, Talking Therapists, Physicians, and other NHS and social services staff.

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.

To take responsibility for prioritising work activities according to service and user needs and resources, and managing own clinical case load.

Provide clinical input as well as advice, education, supervision for staff at Level 2 (NICE Guidance) and training in psychosocial aspects of care to staff at the Walsall Palliative Care Centre and Walsall Manor Hospital, in collaboration with the existing psychologist in palliative care and oncology.

Liaise regularly and work collaboratively with existing psychologist in palliative care and oncology across an integrated End of Life Care pathway spanning the acute and community services.

To take responsibility for providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professional groups as appropriate.

To take responsibility for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development and gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to the service and clinical health psychology.

Participate in performance reviews and peer support.

To attend Clinical Health Psychology meetings and contribute to the service clinical seminar meetings.

• Management, Policy and Service Development Work collaboratively within the NHS and multi-agency groups to advance good working relationships with local health, social care, hospital and hospice staff, to ensure integration of initiatives and services Advise both service and professional management of implications of relevant local and national guidance for psychological provision of services for cancer and non cancer patients eg.

NICE guidance ( 2004), End of Life Care Strategy (2008), Transforming end of life care in acute hospitals (2012) Be proactive in identifying and proposing safety, quality and service improvements to the psychology service in oncology and palliative…