Main area Adult Community Physical Health Services Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours
* Part time
* Flexible working
22.5 hours per week Job ref 277-6709497-CPH-B
Site Queen Mary's Hospital Town Sidcup Salary £67,950 - £78,028 pro rata pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 22/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are looking for a highly skilled, motivated and committed Principal Clinical Psychologist to join the Bexley MSK Pain Psychology service at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The post offers a varied mix of individual and group work as well as opportunities for service development and supervision of other psychologists.
The post holder will join a multidisciplinary pain team that includes Pain Consultants, Pain Psychologists, Advanced Practice Physiotherapists, Pain Management Physiotherapists, Service Manager and Administrative staff. The post involves close working with MDT members to provide holistic care to treat persistent pain in a community setting so strong communication and team-working skills are essential.
Main duties of the job
To lead on the development of group interventions on offer in the service. To contribute to ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality and specialist psychological therapy service to patients with chronic pain. The Bexley MSK Psychology service offers clinical input to MSK patients as well as deliver the KCH outpatient pain management program for patients in Bexley.
To offer training, supervision, consultation, advice and guidance on the provision of psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other clinical members of the team, and to other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the MSK Pain Management Service and other clients deemed appropriate by the psychology and service leads. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment of a client’s mental and physical health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the MSK service. To use routine outcome measures as required by the service.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models with particular reference to pain management and health psychology theory. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate Doctoral level training and qualification in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS and recognised by HCPC
* Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional bodies for Clinical Psychology
* Post-Doctoral training in specific theoretical models e.g MBCT, Mindfulness, CFT ACT
Knowledge and Skills
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology and complex data analysis within clinical psychology.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Personal
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems.
* Enthusiasm for working within MDT and with patients with chronic pain
Experience
* Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with 2 years at a highly specialist level.
* Experience working in physical health settings with clients with chronic physical health conditions.
* Experience of leading long term condition management groups
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process.
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