JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance (WY&HCA) brings together six acute Trusts (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate and District Foundation Trust) across the West Yorkshire and Harrogate and the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to share best practice and innovation, identifying and addressing unwarranted variation, integrating care pathways, collating intelligence to support providers to provide patient-centred high quality and cost effective care. This post is to continue the improvement work on psychologically informed care for people affected by cancer in the region through providing leadership and clinical expertise into the next phase. Summary of Main Duties and Responsibilities Provide leadership and clinical expertise to steer and oversee the project Utilise links with key collaborators who might be service users, commissioners, clinical leads in primary care (cancer and mental health), Talking Therapies, CMHT, hospices or psycho-oncology services across West Yorkshire and Harrogate. Deliver high quality training and presentations to a range of audiences and stakeholders Attend regular steering meetings with key stakeholders from the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance Compile information on project work and collating useful models from elsewhere Develop a high-quality patient-centred pathway and service specification. These will encompass patient experience, quality & safety, efficiency and effectiveness, commissioning perspectives and take account of existing contextual opportunities and constraints. Develop strategic relationships and partnership working with service users, commissioners, clinical leads in primary care (cancer and mental health), IAPT, CMHT, hospices and psycho-oncology services across West Yorkshire and Harrogate. Explore and compile information regarding existing provision and pathways including examples from outside West Yorkshire and Harrogate. As appropriate, identify aspects of the pathway and service specification that may vary depending on local considerations Ensure that relevant commissioners and provider networks are engaged in developing resources and endorse the findings. To carry out other appropriate delegated duties as required by the Line Manager Clinical Use high-level professional knowledge of clinical assessment and intervention relevant to psycho-oncology to: inform pathway development inform and evaluate models for sharing skills and knowledge inform the configuration of services & teams to ensure optimal care delivery inform and evaluate models of supervision and quality assurance This Post requires recent experience of the rest of the following Job Description: The systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service , across sites and sectors of care by: a) Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, therapy and supervision b) Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers c) Developing systems to promote efficient and equitable delivery of care d) Clinical and professional supervision of colleagues e) Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service f) Working autonomously in the delivery of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology and Trust policies and procedures. 1. JOB DIMENSIONS Core: Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations Develop oneself and others in areas of practice Promote, monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security Appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services Contribute to improving quality Promote equality and diversity. Health and well-being: Plan, develop and implement programmes to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing Assess complex health and wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet those needs Implement aspects of a protection plan and review its effectiveness Assess physiological and psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop, monitor and review related treatment plans Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious illness. Information and knowledge; Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information. General; Plan, deliver and review interventions to enable people to learn and develop Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment Monitor expenditure Plan, coordinate and monitor the delivery of services and/or projects Plan, allocate and supervise the work of a team