About this role
Job summary
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, Wakefield Council and Kirklees Active Leisure are working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sheffield Hallam University to implement the Active Together model to individuals diagnosed with cancer in Wakefield and North Kirklees.
The Active Together programme will run alongside the existing diagnostic and treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare. The programme combines physical activity, nutritional support and psychological support alongside the clinical pathway.
The programme has a staged implementation into all relevant cancer pathways. Patients will receive individual assessments and be triaged into a support pathway suitable to their needs. This may be delivered in Mid Yorkshire Hospitals, selected council facilities closest to the patients home or may be a self-management pathway.
With support from senior colleagues, the post-holder will represent psychology at the Active Together MDT and will deliver the psychology component of the programme.
Main duties of the job
Deliver Interventions: Provide targeted, evidence-based psychological support as part of a holistic prehabilitation programme.
Support Adjustment: Help patients manage anxiety, uncertainty, and emotional distress associated with their diagnosis and upcoming treatments.
Enhance Engagement: Use psychological insights to improve patient engagement, motivation, and adherence to physical activity, nutrition, and wellbeing components of prehab.
Group Work: Develop and deliver workshops or group interventions focused on coping strategies, resilience, and emotional well-being.
Collaborative Practice: Work closely with the wider MDT to ensure psychological considerations are embedded throughout each patients prehabilitation journey.
Monitoring & Evaluation: Maintain accurate clinical records, contribute to outcome monitoring, and support ongoing development of the programmes psychological offer.
Training & Consultation: Provide psychological expertise, consultation, and training to colleagues to ensure psychologically-informed care.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description Job responsibilities
Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS HCPC registration (or within six months of achieving HCPC registration). Experience of working with patients with physical health conditions and conducting specialist assessments and interventions. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Experience of teaching, training, consultation.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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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.
Employer details Employer name The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address Dewsbury District Hospital
Dewsbury
West Yorkshire
WF13 4HS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)