Job summary
This post is based within the Wolverhampton and Sandwell Cancer Service and offers an excellent opportunity to work within a compassionate, psychologically informed, and highly collaborative multidisciplinary cancer pathway. The successful applicant will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for individuals affected by cancer, supporting patients and, where appropriate, their families and carers throughout different stages of diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, recurrence, palliative care, and end-of-life care.

The role involves working with people presenting with a broad range of psychological and emotional difficulties associated with cancer and complex physical health conditions, including adjustment difficulties, anxiety, depression, trauma responses, fear of recurrence, body image concerns, existential distress, relationship challenges, and complex grief.

This is a rewarding opportunity to support people and families through periods of uncertainty, emotional adjustment, treatment burden, and changing health needs within a compassionate multidisciplinary environment. The post holder will work closely alongside oncology, haematology, palliative care, clinical nurse specialist, allied health professional, and wider medical teams, contributing psychological expertise to holistic patient care and service delivery.

Main duties of the job

• 1.0. Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.
• 1.1. Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
• 1.2. Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• 1.3. Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
• 1.4. Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
• 1.5. Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.

About us
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly, innovative, and highly valued Clinical Health Psychology Service within Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Our Clinical Health Psychology Service supports individuals in adapting to and managing the psychological impact of physical health conditions, helping people to develop meaningful and creative ways of living well alongside illness. The service currently operates across Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell & West Birmingham, delivering a range of specialist psychological services across the Black Country.

Details
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 285-8952A-MH
Job locations: New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Supervisory/Professional Responsibility

• 2.1. Clinical supervision of Trainee Applied Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.
• 2.2. Clinical supervision of Band 7 Applied Psychologists working within immediate area, under the guidance of Consultant Applied Psychologist.
• 2.3. Will hold responsibility and accountability for their own actions, ensuring appropriate support and supervision is sought when required.
• 2.4. To keep abreast of current developments in this field through reading, attendance at appropriate training courses, and a range of other CPD activities, and to ensure that a log is kept of this in line with HCPC requirements.
• 2.5. To contribute, as appropriate, to the teaching offered on the local Applied Psychology training courses.

Essential Education and Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status.
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees.

Essential Experience

• Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/

Contact for questions about the job
Principal Psychologist, Dr Chantelle Osborne, 01384366249

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