Specialist Practitioner Psychologist for Cancer Inpatients

We are delighted to be recruiting to a permanent 0.80 WTE band 8b Specialist Practitioner Psychologist for cancer inpatients post . We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with inpatients with cancer experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with our medical, nursing and AHP colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care., The post holder will be located at Guy's hospital with some time at STH hospital. The main responsibility is to create and deliver a psychologically informed service for inpatients with a cancer diagnosis, both curative and palliative, and to create an outpatient follow-up pathway for those discharged. You will be building on the work we have developed over the past 10 years in this area. You will work closely with the lead Clinical Psychologist at POST, Dimbleby Cancer Care to enable this delivery. To also ensure the systematic provision of a high quality and specialist psychology service at Guy's Cancer Centre., The role will involve creating our strategic vision and key service developments to build and form a workable and sustainable psychology inpatient service for people diagnosed with and affected by cancer, which will include both direct patient and/or carer input and working/liaising/consulting with staff systems, which include cancer staff, Trust staff support and psychiatry liaison, as well as Dimbleby cancer care teams. As part of informing the inpatient service development, the role will oversee audit and research in this area and also be responsible for overseeing junior colleagues and trainees who will deliver inpatient work as part of their role, working with them to create an effective inpatient team. As part of this, and key, is using psychological approaches to inform the set up and delivery of the inpatient service, to create a responsive and compassionate service which integrates and addresses issues of accessibility, power and marginalisation within an inpatient
context.

The role expects you to be autonomous member of Dimbleby Cancer Care and Trust-wide psychology, as required. In conjunction with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Dimbleby, to ensure that effective systems are in place for the line management, and the clinical and professional supervision of more junior psychology staff.

Dimbleby Cancer Care

Dimbleby Cancer Care has been providing a service to people with cancer, their friends and families for 20 years at Guy's and St Thomas's and now also at Queen Mary Hospital cancer Centre at Sidcup. The service includes, CNS information, Benefits advice, Complementary Therapy and Psychological therapy, support and education. Support is provided for both outpatients and inpatients, and to those bereaved, and who have received support from our palliative care teams at Guy's and St Thomas.' As well as direct clinical work we also provide staff training, supervision and support.

Psychology Department information

GSTT has a large group of applied psychologists working across many areas of specialisms within both paediatric and adult populations. The psychology department has, Clinical, Counselling, Health, Educational Psychologists and Neuropsychologists. There is well-organised professional support from other applied psychologists working for the Trust. The Psychology Department is within the Therapies directorate that includes Speech and Language Therapists; Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.