Applied Psychologist in Wolverhampton Cancer

Job overview

This post is based within the Wolverhampton Cancer Service and offers an excellent opportunity to work within a compassionate, psychologically informed, and highly collaborative multidisciplinary cancer pathway. The successful applicant will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for individuals affected by cancer, supporting patients and, where appropriate, their families and carers throughout different stages of diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, recurrence, palliative care, and end-of-life care.

The role involves working with people presenting with a broad range of psychological and emotional difficulties associated with cancer and complex physical health conditions, including adjustment difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma responses, fear of recurrence, body image concerns, existential distress, relationship challenges, and complex grief.

This is a rewarding opportunity to support people and families through periods of uncertainty, emotional adjustment, treatment burden, and changing health needs within a compassionate multidisciplinary environment. The post holder will work closely alongside oncology, haematology, palliative care, clinical nurse specialist, allied health professional, and wider medical teams, contributing psychological expertise to holistic patient care and service delivery.

Main duties of the job

1.0.        Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.

1.1.        Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

1.2.        Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

1.3.        Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients’ mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.

1.4.        Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.

1.5.        Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Supervisory/Professional Responsibility

2.1.     Clinical supervision of Trainee Applied Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.

2.2.     Clinical supervision of Band 7 Applied Psychologists working within immediate area, under the guidance of Consultant Applied Psychologist

2.3.     Will hold responsibility and accountability for their own actions, ensuring appropriate support and supervision is sought when required.

2.4.     To keep abreast of current developments in this field through reading, attendance at appropriate training courses, and a range of other CPD activities, and to ensure that a log is kept of this in line with HCPC requirements.

2.5.     To contribute, as appropriate, to the teaching offered on the local Applied Psychology training courses.