Senior Practitioner Psychologist

7 days ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist with experience of working in physical healthcare to join our well-established, supportive and welcoming Cancer Psychology Service, and to lead on our new partnership with Marie Curie Hospital. We have good resources for CPD and strong links to Liverpool University, offering opportunities to getting involved in teaching, research and trainee placements.

In this role, you will work directly with people who are living with cancer and their families, supervise more junior colleagues in the service, collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines and contribute to service development.

Liverpool is a great place to live, with fantastic energy and humour, a vibrant cultural life and easy access to the mountains and the sea. We can also offer beautiful architecture, lots of open space, good schools and a lower than average cost of living.

1. To provide a high quality and highly specialised psychology service for patients who are resident in Liverpool or under the care of LUHFT and are affected by cancer.

2. To provide a high quality and highly specialised psychology service for patients and their families who being supported by Marie Curie Hospice in the context of terminal illness and bereavement.

3. To be a highly specialist resource on psychological care to the wider services and to coordinate and contribute to providing education, training and supervision activities to enhance psychological support and treatment across the service.
4. To use research skills for needs assessment, audit, evaluation, service development and other research activity to support continued development of the services.
6. To supervise junior staff as required.
7. To promote psychology and the service within the local health, social care and research communities.
8. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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1. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care.
2. To formulate plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of patients’ problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across clinical teams, and in synthesis, adjusting and refining of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To make highly skilled evaluations and 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.
5. To address the needs of informal carers and family members as appropriate.
6. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment and discharge of patients ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, and communicating and liaising with referrers and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
7. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients’ treatment.
8. To ensure that all members of the clinical team(s) in which the psychologist works have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual



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