CBT Therapist/Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

at  University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay UHMB

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

• To provide an active role in the psycho-oncology collaborative, consultation and collaboration with NHS and voluntary sector providers is a key part of this role.
• To contribute to the implementation, development and evaluation of the service.
• Provide a highly specialised psychological therapy and assessment for patients with Cancer, in line with the best available evidence.
• Work within the Macmillan pathway across LTHTr and UHMB.
• Offer supervision in psychological skills to other less experienced psychological practitioners and to heath service staff working in the service.
• To contribute to and facilitate a varied training programme for health care professionals.
• To attend and contribute to triage meetings and contribute to highly specialist clinical health psychology discussions for patients living with cancer.
• To provide integrated multidisciplinary care across the cancer specialist pathways.
• Develop and engage in audit and research within the pathway to further the development of the pathway.
• You will be a senior psychologist with demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level/grade.
• There will be an expectation to work flexibly across the pathway as required.
• To work in consultation and collaboration with the consultant clinical psychologist, clinical colleagues, service user engagement officer, project manager and key stakeholders in the Clinical Business Unit and Macmillan.
  Working for our organisation
  The posts will be hosted by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
  Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. These posts involve working across the Cancer Alliance, linking in with colleagues across the ICB and integrating cancer care and teaching both in the hospital Trust and the community.
  You’ll make an impact, be part of a new and exciting project, be challenged to think differently & help innovate to keep cancer care moving forward. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
  As a Macmillan professional, you will have access to a wide variety of learning opportunities to support your development. Macmillan’s Person-Centred Care Competency Framework (MPCCCF) underpins the training offer, this ensures that professionals are provided with the education, training, tools, learning resources and development opportunities to help them meet these needs and demands of their roles.
  Detailed job description and main responsibilities
  Please see attached job description and person specification for the detailed list of duties and responsibilities
  Person specification
  Qualifications and Education

Essential criteria

• Registered with the regulatory body eg. BABPC or HCPC
• Clinical or Counselling Psychologist HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist ORCognitive Behavioural Therapist With completed appropriate training in CBT therapy
• Further training or experience in the specialist field
• Prepared to undertake a substantial Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice, at least equivalent to a post-graduate diploma, or equivalent professional development

Desirable criteria

• Post-qualification training in evidence based therapies eg. EMDR, CFT, ACT.
• Core Profession (eg. Mental Health Nurse, Practitioner Psychologist or Mental Health Social Worker. Leadership training or qualification
• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychological interventions.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Experience of working with patients with wide range of psychological problems, e.g. community mental health, long term health conditions.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, typically across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience working with people with cancer or long-term physical health conditions
• Experience of the application of psychological approaches in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with groups of service users
• Experience of MDT or team working

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability and willingness to work flexibly across all service locations in Lancashire and South Cumbria as appropriate and required by the service

Desirable criteria

• Lived experience of cancer and/or long-term health condition

Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here
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