# Macmillan Cancer Psychologist

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Macmillan Cancer Psychologist to join our team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The successful post holder will work alongside another full-time Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist colleague, three 8a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist colleagues, an Assistant Psychologist, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, an 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Service Lead), and a dedicated Medical Secretary.

The Cancer Psychological Care Team became a permanently established service in 2022. We provide outpatient specialist psychological assessment and formulation-based interventions for patients accessing cancer treatment at King's College Hospital, as well as their family members and carers. The service adopts a compassion-based model of care, guiding how we support patients, MDT colleagues, and each other.

Key objectives for the role are:

- To provide timely access to specialist psychological assessment, and psychological therapy, tailored to the needs of patients, throughout and following their cancer treatment journey.

- To collaborate with colleagues with links to cancer tumour groups and specific MDMs in the hospital as well as rehabilitation services in secondary and primary care settings to provide high quality care.

- To maintain contacts with the community and pathways of referrals and care to ensure patients receive care in the most socially acceptable and supportive environment to them.

- To facilitate reflective practice groups for non-qualified staff and supervision groups for MDT colleagues.

- To provide training, advice and support for reflective practice, which meets the learning needs of staff throughout services who support people with cancer at King's.

The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital.

The salary for this post is £58,133 to £65,261 a year.

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## Skills

### Required
- specialist psychological assessment
- formulation-based interventions
- compassion-based model of care
- CBT
- ACT
- CFT
- Narrative Therapy
- EMDR
- psychological research design and methodology
- complex statistical analysis

### Nice to have
- experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
- specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs specifically related to physical illness
- knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in cancer
- knowledge and experience of the theory and practice of cognitive behavioural therapy

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