Job summary
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical, Health or Counselling Psychologist to join a large multidisciplinary pain team, providing clinical health services to a diverse population of people with a wide range of chronic pain conditions.
The clinical role involves providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention to people with a wide range of chronic pain conditions. You will be required to deliver psychological interventions including 1:1 Psychology Sessions, Joint Clinics working alongside physiotherapy and nursing colleagues as well as group based interventions such as Pain Management Programmes to help support people to manage long-term pain effectively.
You will be expected to provide some clinical leadership for aspects of the psychology service and to support the Pain Psychology Lead in developing and integrating Pain Psychology Services across the trust
The post holder will be required to work across all the Trust's hospital sites but will be primarily at; Queen Elizabeth, Solihull, and Good Hope Hospitals.
You must be a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist and have experience of working with clients who have long-term health conditions.
For informal enquiries please contact Dr. Laura Hissey, UHB Pain Psychology Lead on 0121 424 4329 or laura.hissey@uhb.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
1.To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention in highly complex clinical cases where expert opinion is required
2.To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and supervision to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training
3.To manage and supervise the work of assistant and qualified psychologist staff for whom the post-holder has professional responsibility within the Psychology Service and to provide clinical supervision for trainees and/or other psychologists on placement within the Psychology Service
4.To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice in the Pain Service
5.Facilitates the dissemination of effective evidence informed psychological practice within the team and service by supporting psychologically informed protocols, guidelines and procedures implemented by other members of the MDT.
6.Provides teaching/training sessions/programmes in psychological principles and practice for other members of the MDT.
7.Participates in regular and responsive supervision and activities with the wider Clinical Health Psychology team within UHB NHS Trust
8.To provide Psychology leadership and be pro-active in continual service improvement within own area
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Doctoral level training in clinical, health or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society
- * Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
- * Eligibility for entry onto Register of Chartered Psychologists
Desirable
- * Pre-qualification qualifications in research methodology and/or MSc in Health Psychology or related field
- * Post-qualification training in one or more additional areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- * Significant experience of working as a qualified Psychologist at a specialist level including experience of working in long-term pain management
- * Experience of specialist psychological assessment and self-management support, as part of a multidisciplinary team, for people with long term health conditions across primary and secondary care settings
- * Experience of working therapeutically with clients with complex physical, psychological and behavioural needs that reflect the full extent of clinical severity
- * Experience in the application of psychological approaches for different social and cultural groups
- * Experience of inducting, training and supervising pre and post qualified psychologists
- * Experience of assessing need and providing specialist psychological support for people with long term pain
Desirable
- * Experience of providing psychological consultation and guidance incl. reflective practice to multidisciplinary physical health teams
- * Experience of leading the delivery of group based interventions for pain management
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Highly-developed knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, and their application in specialist chronic disease settings
- * Skills in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
- * Highly-developed interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to people with long term health conditions, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- * Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups
- * Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis, presentation and dissemination of findings
- * Ability to provide teaching and training on relevant psychological
- topics, using a variety of complex
- multi-media materials suitable for
- presentations within public,
- professional and academic settings
- * Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the HCPC and BPS subdivisions (Division of Clinical Psychology, Division of Health Psychology)
- * Familiarity with the ethical and professional standards expected of Clinical or Health Psychologists as per BPS 'Code of Conduct, Ethical Principles and Guidelines'
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Doctoral level training in clinical, health or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society
- * Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
- * Eligibility for entry onto Register of Chartered Psychologists
Desirable
- * Pre-qualification qualifications in research methodology and/or MSc in Health Psychology or related field
- * Post-qualification training in one or more additional areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- * Significant experience of working as a qualified Psychologist at a specialist level including experience of working in long-term pain management
- * Experience of specialist psychological assessment and self-management support, as part of a multidisciplinary team, for people with long term health conditions across primary and secondary care settings
- * Experience of working therapeutically with clients with complex physical, psychological and behavioural needs that reflect the full extent of clinical severity
- * Experience in the application of psychological approaches for different social and cultural groups
- * Experience of inducting, training and supervising pre and post qualified psychologists
- * Experience of assessing need and providing specialist psychological support for people with long term pain
Desirable
- * Experience of providing psychological consultation and guidance incl. reflective practice to multidisciplinary physical health teams
- * Experience of leading the delivery of group based interventions for pain management
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Highly-developed knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, and their application in specialist chronic disease settings
- * Skills in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
- * Highly-developed interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to people with long term health conditions, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- * Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups
- * Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis, presentation and dissemination of findings
- * Ability to provide teaching and training on relevant psychological
- topics, using a variety of complex
- multi-media materials suitable for
- presentations within public,
- professional and academic settings
- * Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the HCPC and BPS subdivisions (Division of Clinical Psychology, Division of Health Psychology)
- * Familiarity with the ethical and professional standards expected of Clinical or Health Psychologists as per BPS 'Code of Conduct, Ethical Principles and Guidelines'
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
