Post-Qual Clinical Fellowship in Cancer & Palliative Psychology

We welcome early career colleagues with high potential to join our cancer & pall care psychology team for a one-year post-qualification clinical fellowship in the specialty. We see this as an excellent opportunity to gain a formative experience, practicing a wide range of clinical and indirect activities within a well-established consultant-led team that is embedded in clinical MDTs across inpatient, outpatient and community settings. The psychologist will have close 1-1 training, supervision and joint working with the consultant psychologist, team-based learning with the team psychotherapist, Macmillan-sponsored learning and additional exposure to clinical health psychology via bimonthly Departmental clinical meetings. While the pace will be brisk and clinics full, there are no waiting lists, funding pressures or administrative barriers to distort how we work multimodally and compassionately with patients & carers - think of it as the specialist placement you always wanted. On
completion, you will have our full support and ongoing mentorship to find opportunities in NW sector / wider London psycho-oncology services.

This post is fixed term for 1 year, starting Aug-Sept 2026. In this period, it is expected that our Department (and thus this post and the clinical team) will be locally relocated to different hospital or borough location(s) as part of the redevelopment of Hillingdon Hospital, which will affect working locations and may affect working patterns for all of us.

Main duties of the job

To work efficiently and collaboratively as part of a consultant-led team that provide specialist psychological care to cancer and palliative patients and their carers, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

To support the specialist community and hospital palliative care teams and cancer services at Hillingdon Hospital by providing a direct clinical service and via active contribution at multidisciplinary meetings.

To work under the leadership and supervision of the lead clinical psychologist, and provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate to other professionals.

This developmental role within the cancer & pall care team will benefit from learning with a multidisciplinary team of a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, the learning & development resources of Macmillan Cancer Support, the additional structures and support of the wider Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Hillingdon Hospital that includes neuropsychology and health psychology specialists, and the extensive Psychological Professions development programme of CNWL NHS Trust, including full access to the CPD portfolio of 'Bespoke' and 'Contextual Consulting'.