This post offers a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated HCPC-registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join an established Psychology Service within the Pain Management Team. This is part of a wider Clinical Health and Neuropsychology department, which works across the mental health and acute physical healthcare systems. This role would suit a candidate with experience in clinical health and/or mental health services.
The post involves working alongside the other psychologists in the pain psychology service in delivering assessments and individual psychological therapies for people with persistent pain. This role is a senior role within that team and would share leadership responsibilities in the team. The psychology team is embedded within the multidisciplinary Pain Management Rehabilitation Team (Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy) and works closely with consultant and nursing colleagues. You will have the opportunity to contribute to MDT meetings, work with other professionals and be involved in delivering group interventions.
Main duties of the job
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with persistent pain presentations. The main duties will include psychological assessment, consultation, supervision and intervention. This will involve delivering psychological therapy, contributing to MDT work, and supporting the clinical lead with service developments.
The post would suit a clinician who has an interest in developing experience in health psychology based approaches that can incorporate therapies such as ACT, CFT, EMDR, CBT.
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with persistent pain presentations.
The roles main tasks are:
1. Ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service to the Pain Service, RDUH Eastern as a key component of the DPT Clinical Health & Neuropsychology Service to the RDUH and related community services.
2. Providing clinical leadership/supervision for staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology service.
3. To carry a specialist caseload of patients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients and professionals.
4. To work jointly with other members of the multi-disciplinary pain team. This is via consultation and supervision of the MDT, and also via joint clinical assessment and group-based interventions where appropriate.
5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional and DPT guidelines as a specialist member of staff.
6. As directed by the Professional and Strategic Leads embed practice-based evidence and evidence based practice across service area.
7. The post holder will work collaboratively to ensure a whole systems integrated approach to service delivery and development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society. Registered with HCPC.
* Further training or experience in clinical specialism.
* Further training in related area.
* Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy.
Experience
* Experience of work in adult mental health services or in physical health services or agencies and working with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties and comorbid physical health needs.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience in undertaking leadership roles within clinical psychology services in the NHS.
Professional Lead Clinical Health Psychology
£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata (30 Hours per week)
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