The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated Band 8A Psychologist to join their highly skilled and qualified team at Chase Farm Hospital.
Job Summary:
1. To provide a pain management clinical psychology service to clients of the MSK and other teams when necessary or appropriate: providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment.
2. Specifically to take a significant role in the design and delivery of an evidence-based Pain Service and in particular a Pain Management Programme incorporating assessment and/or individual work with patients where appropriate.
3. Supervising trainee clinical psychologists and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
4. Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
5. It will be a requirement of this role to participate in job planning which forms a key part of the working practices of qualified psychological therapists.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients with persistent pain referred to the MSK team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological and multi-disciplinary treatment and/or management of persistent pain. In addition to be able to assess a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To use routine outcome measures as required by the service.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
10. To take the lead and principal responsibility for the design, evaluation and service delivery of the Pain Management programme and psychological elements of the Pain Service as directed and agreed with the Borough Lead for Psychological Services and Service Manager.
11. To identify on the basis of the exclusion and inclusion criteria for the pain management service clients referred for pain management psychological assessment whose needs are best served by other local services rather than or in addition to the MSK Pain management service e.g. IAPT or CMHT services and to liaise as appropriate with these teams to make onward referrals and to work alongside these teams if dual integrated work is considered appropriate.
12. To communicate highly complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with patients who may be extremely hostile or highly emotional requiring the highest level of communication skills. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Requirements:
1. Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
2. Registration with the HCPC as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist.
3. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of NHS care settings such as community, primary care and/or inpatient settings and in providing individual and group therapy.
4. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Apply now for this fantastic career-progressing opportunity by attaching your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in contact with you shortly.
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