Assistant Psychologist in Cancer Services

Job Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a new role, funded initially by Macmillan for one year.

The post holder will be involved in supporting two newly appointed Psychologists in setting up the Psychological provision for Cancer Services within the area. This will involve working closely with the Psychologists to develop resources, evaluate the new service and offer feedback on the developments, support relevant clinical work, as well as become involved in the development of processes.

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated psychology graduates to join our well-established Department of Medical Psychology. The department is friendly, supportive, and flexible. The team includes clinical and counselling psychologists, trainees, assistants, and excellent admin/clerical support. We place great emphasis on supervision and personal development, which is possible through working within a Psychology department. We meet regularly for case presentations, clinical governance, and business meetings. We also have regular time-out mornings to enable reflection and service development.

We have a team base at Leicester General Hospital, although also work at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

We Also Offer

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
• Free onsite parking (not available at Leicester Royal Infirmary)
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
  
  

For an informal chat, please contact Laura Ambrose on 01162954555 or email [email protected]

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities

This role is being funded by Macmillan to help with the setting up of a new psychological service to cancer patients. As the team develops the team will be liaising with existing services, creating pathways and policies and thinking creatively about how the team should function. It is hoped the Assistant will be involved in this and also be available to collate information about existing services and interventions.

The Assistant will also be integral in setting up the data collection requirements and reporting these to Macmillan. As the role develops it is hoped the assistant will be able to support with clinical work, creating patient information, inputting to treatment plans and help with the development and dissemination of staff training and supervision packages.

As the role is new this is an initial list of potential areas of work, but this is likely to expand once the team are in operation.

The Assistant will receive regular supervision and be a member of the Medical Psychology team and so have the benefit of working with Psychologists working in other areas of Medical Psychology.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.