Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in Cancer

The post will provide a psychologically informed approach and service as part of the Psycho-oncology Support Team (POST) within Dimbleby Cancer Care, for cancer and palliative care patients and significant involved others at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. The post will be based at Guy's hospital site (with possibility of some working on St Thomas' site), and is suitable for someone starting out in their career, or is keen to specialise in cancer and palliative care. You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to medical teams, and work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and the overall framework of the psychological support team's policies and procedures. You will see outpatients, and significantly connected others., The post will provide a psychologically informed approach and service as part of the Psycho-oncology Support Team (POST) within Dimbleby Cancer Care, for cancer and palliative care patients and significant involved others at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to medical teams, and work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and the overall framework of the psychological support team's policies and procedures. You will see outpatients, and significantly connected others.

In addition to an individual caseload, you will have an opportunity to contribute to the delivery and evaluation of a psychological skills training programme to oncology staff across Guys and St Thomas hospitals. You will also work closely with a senior practitioner on development of our patient involvement pathway; which will proactively seek meaningful involvement of the people and communities that we serve, value peoples' lived experience, and promote equality and diversity in access to our services.

Our clinical services draw upon multiple therapeutic approaches including a number of psychotherapy models, CBT, systemic, and third wave approaches. You will provide supervision to our AHP and medical colleagues. Forming creative, compassionate and collaborative relationships within POST, Dimbleby and our wider cancer service colleagues is key.

Dimbleby Cancer Care

Dimbleby Cancer Care has been providing a service to people with cancer, and their friends and families for 20 years at Guy's and St Thomas's including at Queen Mary Hospital cancer Centre at Sidcup. The service includes, Information team, Welfare Benefits advice, Complementary Therapy and Psychological therapy, support and education. Support is provided for both outpatients and inpatients, and to those bereaved, and who have received support from our palliative care teams at Guy's and St Thomas.' As well as direct clinical work we also provide staff training, supervision and support.

Psychology Department information

GSTT has a large group of applied psychologists working across many areas of specialisms within both paediatric and adult populations. The psychology department has, Clinical, Counselling, Health, Educational Psychologists and Neuropsychologists. There is well-organised professional support from other applied psychologists working for the Trust. The Psychology Department is within the Therapies directorate that includes Speech and Language Therapists; Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.