Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity as an experienced Counsellor to work in a busy regional Oncology Centre?
An opportunity has arisen for an accredited counsellor to join the Oncology Team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative individual who would like to work alongside MDT colleagues in supporting patients with a cancer diagnosis and their families and carers.
The team serves a busy acute hospital working within the Arden Cancer Centre and a wider range of nurses, medics and allied professionals supporting cancer patients.
There is opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of cancer conditions and cutting‑edge treatments, working with inpatients and outpatients. You will be working alongside the service lead and part of a wider psychology team across the trust with excellent support provided for your development. We also have excellent administrative support for the team.
This position is for a band 6 counsellor, 0.6 WTE.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Dec 2025.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Responsibilities
* To manage own caseload and work autonomously within professional guidelines, exercising clinical responsibility, and implementing changes where necessary.
* To participate as a member of the Oncology (and where appropriate Haematology) Psychological Service team and to work co‑operatively with multidisciplinary colleagues to achieve service goals.
* To ensure the systematic provision of the psychological service, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
* To use self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and semi‑structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
* To formulate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors that have shaped the individual or family.
Communication
* To communicate with patients in a skilled and sensitive manner, information about the psychological aspects of their care and therapy, and to monitor therapy progress. To communicate sensitive information where the recipient may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotional.
* To elicit highly sensitive information, sometimes through interpreters or advocates, where there is need for reassurance, empathy and to work collaboratively and respectfully with the patient.
* To communicate effectively with service users, carers, groups, colleagues, managers and workers from other agencies using a variety of means such as verbal, written and electronic communication (e.g. email, databases).
Analytical and Judgemental Skills / Freedom to Act
* To conduct initial assessments of people presenting with multiple and complex issues related to their cancer and to consider the most appropriate therapy intervention, including, where appropriate, referring on to other services.
* To be able to clinically explain these decisions in team meetings or supervision.
* To work independently with patients within policies and codes of conduct.
* To participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision, working at all times within professional guidelines and adhering to standards set out by their professional regulatory body e.g. BACP, UKCP.
Interviews will take place in person at UHCW on 15th and 16th January 2026.
Please note this post will require onsite working with little or no opportunity for remote working.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
Please see the full job description and person specification document for further details.
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