Clinical Psychologist - Peritoneal Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a trained Clinical Psychologist in the Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Centre (CPOC)., The post holder will execute a 24-month position which is 0.6 WTE which has been implemented to identify and support the mental health needs of patients at The Christie based within the Colorectal and Peritoneal Services.

The post holder will assist managers and lead clinicians in the service to develop evidence-based and guideline-adherent psychological programs to address the gaps.

This post aims to enhance psychological support for inpatients and outpatients, ultimately improving the care provided to individuals facing cancer diagnoses, treatment, and recovery.

Additionally, the post holder manages a clinical caseload, providing specialized psychological assessments and interventions to referred patients.

They also collaborate closely with the team, offer supervision, and liaise with wider mental health services, ensuring comprehensive patient support. Overall, their role seeks to empower patients to effectively manage health challenges, maintain good governance, and collect and evaluate outcome data with a focus on co-production and service evaluation.

The successful candidate will undertake an exciting new development project within The Christie Psycho-Oncology Service that aims to support processes to enable CPOC patients to manage psychological and physical health challenges as effectively as possible, to attain maximal quality of life.

The post is an 8b 0.6 WTE fixed term contract for 24 months.

The CPOC team treats patients with appendix tumours, peritoneal metastases, locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancer, sarcoma, neuro-endocrine tumours and anal cancer. These are all less common tumours which frequently present at an advanced stage. As a consequence of this many patients have had delayed diagnosis, often received conflicting opinions, have been offered/received multiple treatments or are facing their last chance for treatment. Patients often travel from all over the UK for our surgical services and so are geographically disparate from their support network. They face multi-modal treatment and life changing surgical intervention. As a consequence of this, many of our patients have significant psychological needs but are unable to access services. Support is currently provided as far as possible by our clinical nurse specialist team, each of whom are trained to deliver level 2 (mild symptoms affecting mood and/or cognition) psychological support., The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.