Macmillan Practitioner Psychologist

Locations

Northampton

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750 a year pro rata, per annum

Description

Job summary

Band 8A Practitioner Psychologist

(Band 7 to 8A preceptorship available)

The University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group is delighted to be working in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support and the East Midlands Cancer Alliance to increase the psychological support for people living with cancer. We are looking to recruit a committed, compassionate, and enthusiastic clinical/counselling or health psychologist to join the psycho-oncology service. This post will be based at Kettering General Hospital.

The Macmillan clinical psychology services provide a specialist (level IV) clinical psychology service to adult (18+) patients who have been diagnosed with cancer and who are experiencing complex psychological difficulties relating to any aspect of their diagnosis or treatment. Our services take a compassionate, holistic and patient-centred approach, and are committed to offering a flexible and responsive service to cancer patients at all stages of the cancer pathway.

The successful candidate will ideally have some relevant post qualification experience. However, we would welcome applications from newly qualified psychologists who would be appointed on a band 7 preceptorship basis, with a development plan in place to support them to work towards an 8a role.

Full time (37.5 hours) - part time/flexible working could be considered.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the cancer multidisciplinary team, providing Level 3/4 psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions, in line with the service model recommended by NICE (2004) and the EMCA Psychosocial Care Model (2020) for the provision of psychological care to people living with cancer.

The post holder will also support the delivery of supervision, consultation and teaching to the hospital based Level 2 Practitioners such as Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists, as well as providing support to other staff within oncology services and the wider hospital cancer team as appropriate.

The post holder will work closely with the service lead to develop and implement the service across the County and will have opportunities to contribute to the future development of the service.

Deadline for applications: 18 June 2026