Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist

Job overview

We are looking for someone passionate about working with people with cancer, who has excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues.

• Interview Date Thursday 22 January 2026
• 15 Hours/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will join the Clinical Psychology team at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital, in providing a specialist clinical psychology service to both oncology and haematology.

The role includes direct clinical work in a variety of settings, including seeing patients on hospital wards and outpatient clinics, and providing telephone call and video appointments.  This post also requires providing consultation, supervision, teaching, training and research & development.

Essential requirements include doctoral level training in clinical /counselling psychology (or equivalent) and registration with the HCPC or a recognised qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (recognised by the BABCP), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (as recognised by NHS Talking Therapies) or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing qualification and accreditation (as recognised by the EMDR association).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist

• To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to the long term conditions service including inpatients and outpatients across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
• Offering advice and consultation on client’s psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Psychological Therapist

• Post holder will relate to the Psychology in Healthcare Service Referrals are allocated/selected.
• The post holder does not have standalone responsibility for a service area.
• Frequent intense concentration necessary in highly distressing and highly emotional circumstances, including occasional exposure to patients with severe physical and psychological trauma, aggressive/traumatised families.
• Managing conflicting demands upon time whilst delivering agreed objectives.
• Working constructively when there may be conflicting priorities within the team.
• High level of responsibility when working with people who are expressing suicidal ideation, or who are deliberately self-harming and/or those who could potentially cause harm to others.
• Ever present possibility of verbal or physical aggression.
• Range of clinical demands and settings e.g., organising workload to accommodate regular outpatient appointments, community-based groups and prompt responding to ward consults. Ward consults may be time-consuming, involving meetings with relevant staff as well as patients and families in order to assess the best point at which to intervene.  Indirect work through staff requires flexibility to meet up around staff rotas and may require some negotiation before it is seen as an acceptable solution.
• Will provide signposting to other services, and act as a source of mental health expertise to non-mental health staff.
• Will provide training, education and support to team members.
• Specialisation in specific therapeutic intervention or conditions e.g., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and depression.