About the role
Salary: £49387.00 to £56515.00
You will be joining a well-established and forward-thinking Cancer Psychology Team, which forms part of the wider Health Psychology Service within Northumbria. We are embedded within Cancer and Palliative Care Services and work closely with our medical, nursing, and AHP colleagues.
The aims of NHCFT Health Psychology are to:
o Promote the health, wellbeing and functioning of the population accessing NHCFT, by workingwith individual patients, families, and groups of patients. o Embed psychologically informed care by supporting healthcare teams and contributing to thesystems work of NHCFT and our stakeholder partners.
As well as providing assessment, formulation and psychological therapy for individual patients, Psychologists working into healthcare teams can help with:
o Understanding the 'constellation' of influences upon health and wellbeing (H&WB).o Using this understanding to balance the established approach of diagnostic delineation, with approaches that better address the multiple contextual and systemic factors that can both impact upon and improve an individual's H&WB.o In doing so, help shape an effective integrated approach to the provision of care, by supporting person-centred and psychosocial approaches across NHCFT pathways and systems.o Further develop the workforce and technology capabilities that are needed to deliver such holistic care, in a way that is more accessible to patients.
In line with national guidance across healthcare specialisms, by working together with our teams in this way, the expected outcome will be:
o patients at the heart of provision and re-configuring barriers, including the artificial separation of mental and physical health, health and social care and, parallel single-disease pathways.
To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services to the Health Psychology services