Dr Kate Jenkins

Kate is a Clinical Psychologist, wh0 has worked at Salisbury District Hospital since 2006 as the Lead Psychologist for Cancer and Palliative Care, ITU and Trauma Orthopaedics, as well as providing psychological assessment and interventions to patients across the hospital.

Kate developed a training package in 2008 designed to help frontline health and social care staff detect and manage psychological distress in cancer patients and their family members (Level 2 training). After a 2 year pilot period, this training package was adopted across the UK and is cited in National Peer Review Measures as a gold standard. Kate has personally trained over 3000 staff and run 6 national training the trainers programmes. More recently she has developed a Resilience Training Package which has been running since 2016 and is currently being prepared for publication. Kate drew on the principles of this Resilience programme when supporting staff through the Novichok poisoning crisis in Salisbury in 2018 and is using the lessons learned from this to inform wellbeing during the Covid pandemic.