Applied Psychologist or Highly Specialised Applied Psychologist
This post offers an opportunity to work in a busy Pain Clinic within a friendly, enthusiastic and supportive team.
Clinical time is equally split between group and individual work. There are also opportunities for individual and group work.
Main duties of the job
Work autonomously within the pain clinic to deliver intensive 1:1 intervention.
Assess highly complex pain patients for 1:1, deliver MDT group work.
Act as a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community.
Support policy implementation and service development.
Participate in audit and research.
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
Interpret and integrate complex data from a variety of sources including psychometric tests, direct and indirect observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the their care.
Formulate a care pathway for either group or individual work, as appropriate.
Assessment for group work includes careful consideration of group dynamics and individual motivational factors (including stages of change).
Utilise Motivational Interviewing skills during assessment and intervention.
Work as part of an inter-disciplinary team in the development, delivery and evaluation of generic and specialised PMPs.
Provide expert advice, support and guidance to a newly developed self-help group facilitated by graduates of the group programmes.
Provide evidence-based short-term intervention for clients experiencing psychological barriers to effective management of their chronic pain condition.
Following a comprehensive and rigorous psychological assessment, provide feedback to an interdisciplinary team to inform upon the appropriateness of invasive procedures such as implantation of spinal cord stimulators.
Act at all times in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society.
Dissemination of Information
Maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and report writing.
Provide expert knowledge on the psychological management of chronic pain within the team, and to other professionals involved in the clients care pathway such as GPs and community mental health teams.
Ensure adequate provision of advice, consultation and dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory through seminars and training events.
Provide specialist clinical placements for clinical psychology trainees, undergraduate psychology students, and medical students.
Act as an expert resource in providing specialist advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to all team members. Ensuring that the provision of psychologically based interventions aim to improve client function.
Contribute to local and regional CPD events by presenting on topics of interest to the wider clinical health psychology community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent (A/I)
* Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
* Experience of working with health-specific clinical psychology, especially pain management, in health settings
Knowledge & Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups.
* Demonstrable experience of using evidence based psychological interventions for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of psychological problems.
* Demonstrable experience of providing both group based and individual interventions.
* Demonstrable experience of teaching or training other professional in psychological concepts.
* Previous demonstrable experience as a supervisor for trainees or students.
* Proven knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within this field.
* Highly developed communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, families and external agencies.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
* A genuine interest in clinical health psychology.
* Able to manage people within and according to a robust performance framework
* Can hold people to account for the delivery of tasks and objectives
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.
Salary
£49,387 to £64,750 a yearPer Annum Pro Rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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