# Principal Psychologist in Cancer & Palliative > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-psychologist-in-cancer-and-palliative/3980262a-dc34-427e-8d71-51c89c574011 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-psychologist-in-cancer-and-palliative/3980262a-dc34-427e-8d71-51c89c574011.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Bushey Fields Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Salary:** £66582.00 to £77368.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 15 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T12:27:41.105Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8340692 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8340692?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly, innovative, and highly valued Clinical Health Psychology Service within Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Our Clinical Health Psychology Service supports individuals in adapting to and managing the psychological impact of physical health conditions, helping people develop meaningful and creative ways of living well alongside illness. The service currently operates across Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell & West Birmingham, delivering a range of specialist services across the Black Country. This post is based within the Dudley Cancer Service and offers an excellent opportunity to work as part of a compassionate and psychologically informed multidisciplinary cancer pathway. The successful applicant will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapeutic interventions for people affected by cancer, as well as support for families and carers where appropriate. ### Main duties of the job The service works closely with the cancer MDTs, supporting patients throughout all stages of their cancer journey. Psychology is highly valued within the cancer multidisciplinary teams, with psychologists contributing through regular MDT attendance, consultation, reflective practice, clinical supervision, staff support, and training. As a Principal Psychologist, you will play an important role in shaping and developing psychologically informed cancer care pathways across the service, contributing to strategic service development, innovation, and the continued integration of psychology within multidisciplinary physical healthcare services. The role will include providing clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, and support to other psychological professionals, alongside contributing to the wider leadership and development of the Clinical Health Psychology Service. You will work alongside other Principal Psychologists and applied psychologists, with support from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist within a well-established leadership, supervision, and operational management structure. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job Purpose - Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex and contentious mental health conditions or learning disabilities which include challenging behaviours and possible risk of physical aggression. - To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families. - To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities. - To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust. - In line with the banding of the post and its service context to: - Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists - Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development - Provide leadership in service audit and development - Provide leadership in service evaluation and research - Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings. ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. - HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status - Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees ## Documents - [bchft anti racist declaration (pdf, 222.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2381) - [8b principal psychologist advert (pdf, 197.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664784) - [8b principal psychologist jdps - cancer (pdf, 417.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664783) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.