Macmillan Consultant Practitioner Psychologist

The post holder will: Provide team leadership for a highly specialist psychology service to cancer and palliative care patients including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. Hold budgetary responsibility for the service. Enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe and informed environment. Initiate and lead on service evaluation, audit and research Provide clinical supervision, consultation and training for MDT staff and other psychological practitioners with thePsycho-oncology stepped care, four level model Work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies, standards and procedures of the service, Psychological Services Network and Trust, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters. o To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved. Beyond Cancer Services, the Macmillan Psycho-oncology service is part of the wider Psychological Services Network (PSN) that brings together psychological specialists from across the Trust. The role includes participation in the teaching, support and service development activities of PSN.

The Macmillan Psycho-oncology Service operates within a model of integrated psychological care and is therefore embedded into the wider staff team of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals., London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.