Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

We are looking to recruit a motivated, highly skilled and enthusiastic clinician who has experience in cancer and clinical health psychology services and has a strong interest in the opportunity to work as part of a variety of multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams within an acute hospital setting.

This post involves providing inpatient and outpatient psychology care to people referred to CHaPPS with a haematology or oncology diagnosis and will also include supporting the consultation, supervision, reflective practice and training needs of non-psychologists and multidisciplinary staff within the UCLH cancer and haematology services.

The post holder will work as part of a large multiprofessional team of clinicians providing supportive and psychological care across cancer and haematology services. Supervision and line management will be provided by senior experienced clinical and counselling psychologists in leadership roles within the CHaPPS team. There are also opportunities to link up with other psychologists and psychotherapists working across other medical specialities at UCLH and the service has strong links with university clinical psychology training courses. Clinicians within the service are supported to continue their ongoing professional development and are also encouraged to engage in audit and research as part of their regular work roles.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an additional part-time fixed term band 7 clinical/counselling psychologist role within the established adult Cancer & Haematology Psychology & Psychotherapy Services (CHaPPS) at UCLH. The psychology team in CHaPPS work across adult inpatient and outpatient settings within the specialist haematology, oncology and cancer services within UCLH.

The CHaPPS team is a large, established, friendly and supportive team of psychologists and psychotherapists with good links with other UCLH and NHS psychology services and university training courses.

Psychology provision is an integral part of UCLH's world-class highly specialist multidisciplinary services and the Trust's haematology and cancer care are at the forefront of health care in the UK and internationally. Following the provision of recent fixed term charitable funding for the development of the innovative gene therapy services within haemoglobinopathy care at UCLH, additional psychology funding to backfill an existing band 7 psychology post (leading on the provision of the haemoglobinopathy psychology gene therapy service) is available for a 12 month post., University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:o University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)o National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgeryo Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitalso University College Hospital Grafton Way Buildingo Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicineo University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centreo The Hospital for Tropical Diseaseso University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.