Home Based Assistant Psychologist in Cancer Care

6 months ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

A unique opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist with clinically relevant experience, to join the East Midlands Cancer Alliance Centre for Psychosocial Health, providing a remote clinical psychology service for people affected by cancer across the East Midlands. This project is funded by NHS England / East Midlands Cancer Alliance.

We are looking for a compassionate, enthusiastic, flexible individual, who works to high standards. You will have excellent communication skills and a demonstrable interest in working to improve the lives of people with cancer.

The wider Physical Health Psychology Service consists of Clinical, Counselling, and Health Psychologists working across physical health specialties and staff wellbeing remotely across the East Midlands and at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust and John Eastwood Hospice. You will be part of a highly supportive and innovative team who are committed to offering an excellent service to patients and staff in physical healthcare settings.

You will support the project team of clinical psychologists to improve access to psychological support for people diagnosed with cancer. You will carry out a range of clinically related tasks, as well as general project administration. The post holder will also support outcome data collection and analysis for audits and service evaluation. You will support the delivery of psychological assessments and interventions to patients and the development, delivery and evaluation of a training package for multidisciplinary staff. As a remotely delivered project, you will be expected to work from home, with monthly in person attendance if required across the East Midlands.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you
TeamNottsHC

Qualifications - Essential

Qualifications - Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychology (e.g. MSc or PhD)
- Short courses e.g. CBT, ACT, trauma, understanding complex clinical presentations

Experience - Essentia l
- Clinically relevant postgraduate work experience
- Experience of using SPSS/R Studio/STATA, Excel and Word

Experience - Desirable
- Experience of working in physical healthcare setting/adult mental health.
- Experience of NHS clinical psychology services
- Experience of managing a large database of data
- Experience of working with multi-disciplinary staff teams
- Experience of using remote methods of communication (video/telephone) to support patients/carers

Knowledge - Essential
- Knowledge of psychological assessment and intervention
- Knowledge of database management using SPSS/Excel

Knowledge - Desirable
- Knowledge of common mental health difficulties
- Knowledge of the impact of cancer or other long-term/life limiting conditions
- Knowledge of applied psychological models e.g. CBT
- Knowledge about clinical psychology and interest in pursuing a future career in these areas

Skills - Essential
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Numeracy, data collection and analysis skills using SPSS/Excel, report writing skills
- Ability to reflect on practice and accept clinical supervision
- Good team working and interpersonal skills, reliable, creative and punctual
- A professional approach to work, and works within service and policy guidelines e.g. confidentiality, attendance, leave, conduct

Skills - Desirable
- Understanding of ethical issues in clinical research practice
- Evaluation of outcome measures
- Presentation and training skills

Contractual Requirements - Essential
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post;

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