Consultant Psychologist in Pain Management
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a consultant clinical/counselling psychologist to join the BHRUT Pain Management team, and as a senior member of NELFT Clinical Health Psychological Services. The post holder will work closely alongside the Professional Lead for CHPS, and the consultants and multidisciplinary team at BHRUT, to develop an evidence-based, highly effective psychological assessment and treatment service for patients/carers referred to the Pain Management Programme.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological assessments, psychological interventions and psycho-education to patients and carers referred to the pain management programme. This will include clinical excellence and experience in delivering comprehensive pain management programmes, and working with a range of pain aetiologies, including acute and persistent pain; the promotion of appropriate provision of evidence-based psychological treatments within PMPs (mainly group but also individual programmes) and to maintain and improve the quality of group-based self-management training and support offered to participants. It will include specialist spinal cord stimulation assessments.
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist, consultant level psychological assessments of patients, carers and families referred to the pain management programme. This will include specialist spinal cord stimulation psychology assessments, carried out within a multidisciplinary framework. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical and psychological health of people with psychological distress in the Pain Management Programme/Pain service, utilising a bio-psycho-social model, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients' persistent pain and broader problems.
To implement a range of psychological interventions both therapeutic and psycho-educational, for individuals, families and groups, using evidence-based interventions and best practice guidelines. In particular; to provide psychological input to the Services multi-disciplinary Pain Management Programme. These are out-patient interventions based on cognitive-behavioural/ACT principles/best practice guidelines as set out by the Royal Pain Society, for a group of patients with chronic pain. The programmes will vary from 8 week programmes to 3 week intensive programmes (4 days per week). To show clinical expertise in the area of individual and group mindfulness-based therapeutic techniques, as well as a strong clinical background in CBT and ACT principles. To show expertise, familiarity and comfort in running group-based psychology interventions, as a large dimension of the pain management programme will rely on evidence-based group programmes. To show clinical expertise and sensitivity in the psychological management of acute distress, anxiety and despair related to persistent pain. This would include experience in working with suicide risk, hopelessness, post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related symptoms, as well as a highly skilled ability to assess and manage deterioration in mental state.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registration clinical/counselling psychologist
* Post graduate qualification in psychological therapy such as CBT
Experience
* Experience in working with pain presentations and/or running pain management programmes.
* Experience working with physical health teams/acute hospital teams
* Expertise and enthusiasm in line management and clinical supervision of psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists
Clinical
* Substantial experience working with complex mental health presentations
* Substantial experience working with clinical risk, safeguarding and triage
* Experience with undertaking psychological assessments for elective surgery
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Psychological Professional Lead for CHPS
£74,290 to £85,601 a year plus HCAS per annum
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