Oncology Psychotherapist​/Counsellor

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information please refer to the job description and personal specification

• To work as a clinician in the delivery of a counselling service to the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust, working directly and indirectly with patients, and with members of the multi-disciplinary team involved in the care of cancer patients, to improve patients' psychological wellbeing, quality of life and coping strategies.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments for patients referred to the Adult Psychological Support Service and make decisions about support options considering the individual needs and choice of the patient, their clinical treatment, prognosis and resources available; referring on to the most appropriate specialists if required.

• Maintain a personal programme of continuing professional development as required by professional body and participate in other activities designed to ensure the continuing development of specialized professional clinical skills. This should inform, update and expand practice and be disseminated as appropriate within the team.
• To provide clinical case supervision in both group and one to one format according to need for health care professionals within the organisation related to the psychological support of patients.

In consultation with the Head of Pastoral Care Psychological Care and PALS as well as the Consultant Psychologist:

• Participate in the identification and recommendation of service priorities for psychological practice.
• Participate in appropriate developments in psychological practice.
• Participate in the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services' operational policies through the deployment of professional skills in service evaluation and audit.

• To routinely collect outcome data for service evaluation and monitoring purposes.
• To utilise theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work, work with other team members and to staff in the trust.

• To undertake administrative duties appropriate to the tasks of the post including the specialized use of IT.
• To be familiar with computer use (e-mail, internet, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

• Master's level training in counselling or psychotherapy
• Accredited with BACP/ UKCP or other recognised counselling professional body

• Other health professional training, e.g. nurse, OT, physio, radiographer, medic
• Recognised supervision qualification/ training
• Training/ qualification in one or more specialised areas of clinical expertise
• ( Couples / Groups)

• Psychological Therapies experience in in a physical health/ acute settings
• Experience working with individuals with long term life threatening physical illness
• Experience working in an exploratory therapeutic approach pure or integrated (existential/ person centred / CBT humanistic / psychodynamic)
• Experience of working within multi cultural settings
• Experience of providing clinical supervision in a group or 1:1

• Professional clinical experience working in Cancer care/ Palliative Care/ HIV/ Critical Care
• Evidence of research productivity

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

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