Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join Whittington Health and contribute to the provision of a new community pain service in Haringey. We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled clinical or counselling psychologist with a keen interest in pain management to take on this role.
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. The post holder will ideally have some post-qualification clinical and consulting experience in the area of physical health care (including chronic health conditions) and with self-management groups. The successful candidate will be offering evidence-based pain psychology assessments and interventions for persistent pain patients.
The post holder will be supervised by the lead clinical psychologist and will have access to Whittington Health CPD for mental health professionals. We also have close links with the neighbouring pain psychology teams; Enfield community pain team and Whittington secondary care pain team for network meetings and CPD.
Are you interested in research?
We are developing a ground-breaking patient co-production model for this service with the aim of future publications in this field.
Main duties of the job
Please see job advert for Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in pain management attached to this website
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job advert for Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in pain management attached to this website
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC.
2. Current registration with Health professions Council (HCPC) as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
3. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
4. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
5. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups with regard to pain management or other physical health conditions.
6. Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
7. Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
8. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
9. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
10. Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
11. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
12. High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
13. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, outpatient and inpatient settings.
14. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
15. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts (including work with clients from different cultural backgrounds).
16. Experience of health professional teaching, training and supervision.
Desirable criteria
17. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with chronic pain or physical health conditions.
18. Knowledge of clinical health psychology literature on behaviour change and its application in the clinical environment.
19. Specialist knowledge of the theoretical background and practice of pain management.
20. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client groups and mental health.
21. Completion of substantial post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical health psychology experience working with clients in the area of chronic pain or a related client group.
22. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of chronic pain clients including group pain management programmes and individual pain management.
23. Experience of the application of clinical psychology to physical health problems including chronic health conditions
24. Experience of contributing to service design and evaluation projects.
25. Experience of working as a psychologist within a physical health multi-disciplinary team.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
26. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
27. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
28. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
29. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
30. Participate in required training and supervision.
31. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.