The Cancer Psychological Care Team is now a permanently established service at King’s College Hospital, originating from a programme of work in partnership with Macmillan and in relation to the Kings cancer priorities to improve cancer patients experience. This includes improving access and support to patients with psychological issues through the provision of clinical services to patients as well as liaising with community services as appropriate. The main objective of this post will be to contribute to the provision of an integrated cancer psychology service across KCH.
The post-holder will join the Cancer Psychological Care Team at KCH, being a core member of the team, and assisting practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist applied psychology service in cancer care. The main base will be near to Denmark Hill, but some travel is expected between sites, as needed.
To assist practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist applied psychology service in cancer care.
To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
To assist in clinical and service-related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, group work, and project work.
To ensure that systems are in place for the effective administration and management of the patient referral process. This will include providing key support for the collation and screening of new referrals, requesting additional referral information if required, presenting referrals in the team meeting, providing necessary telephone triage, and managing outcomes.
To attend and contribute to weekly service level meetings, and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
To work at appropriate levels of independence, following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, and seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager as required.
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are delivering high-quality patient care ; creating a great place to work ; leading pioneering research, innovation and education ; building strong and successful partnerships ; providing timely and efficient care ; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability .
We have also agreed four new organisational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Contributing to team and service clinical functioning
To contribute to the effective working of the Service, for example by managing the service’s clinical database that capture patient flow through the service, ensuring that this is accurate and timely for each weekly clinical meeting.
To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
To support the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
Management of data and outcomes
To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
To create and maintain databases, enter data, and perform analyses for service reports.
To coordinate the collection, management, and analysis of outcomes for training and supervision sessions delivered to MDT colleagues.
Clinical and Patient Care
To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
Where appropriate, to assist in the provision of psychological assessment and interventions for patients with less complex needs in the cancer psychological care team under the supervision of a more senior psychologist .
To use weekly supervision meetings appropriately, to develop skills, including reflective capacity.
Where appropriate, to arrange, schedule and help provide support connected to group psychological interventions for patients.
To assist the psychologists in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials, and in addition to develop such materials independently as falls within own degree of competence.
To contribute to the training and support of other staff in developing and providing psychological care of clients.
