Job summary
We are an award-winning psychology/therapy led interdisciplinary pain management team serving the people of Hackney and the City.
We are seeking a psychologist (clinical, counselling or health psychologist) or CBT therapist with experience of working with clients with long term health conditions, to join our vibrant & highly skilled MDT.The team works in a psychologically informed way and the MDT are trained to use an acceptance and commitment framework to support our patients to live well even in the presence of pain.
Psychological therapy is both highly valued and well-established within the team & the successful applicant would work as a member of a team of psychologists who are skilled in a range of approaches including ACT, CBT, mindfulness & compassion focused approaches.
The successful applicant will assess & manage a caseload of patients with persistent pain on a 1:1 basis and will work alongside MDT colleagues to deliver our pain management group programme & to other groups. There will be opportunities for close interdisciplinary working, research, teaching, training & contributing to service development.
The candidate will also provide supervision to our band 7 psychologist &/or band 5 assistant psychologists & supervision/consultancy to the wider MDT. We place a strong emphasis on CPD through team-based training & support for attending external courses. Regular supervision would be provided by the 8b psychologists within the service.
Main duties of the job
- To work as a part of a psychology team that provides specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to individual patients.
- To work alongside MDT colleagues to deliver our pain management group programme and to assist in the ongoing development of our group programmes.
- To provide advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
- Triage, case manage and sign-post patients with complex needs.
- To supervise band 7 psychologists, doctoral trainees, psychology assistants and associates when necessary.
- Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- Risk management and referral on to other mental health services as appropriate to need.
- Develop the provision of psychological services within the multi-disciplinary teams where based, including maintaining good working relationships with other clinical staff.
- Provide specialist psychological training, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
- Develop effective links and referral pathways with acute, primary, and secondary care teams providing care for patients with health conditions, including arrangements for communication and joint working.
About us
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Working Relationships
To work closely with the other clinical/counselling psychologists working in the locomotor service.
- To develop and maintain good working relationships with all staff in the Locomotor service, with the purpose of facilitating patient care, planning and dissemination of relevant information.
- To liaise with relevant others in the locomotor service, Primary Care and Acute Trusts and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a patients care.
GPs
Voluntary Sector providers
Service Users and their families/carers
- The post holder will be supervised by a senior psychologist and be accountable to the Leads of Psychological Services in pain management and ME/CFS
2. Functional Responsibilities
2.1 Clinical responsibilities:
Provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, employing evidence based interventions (group/individual).
To provide consultation and joint interventions as appropriate with members of pain service/locomotor service.
Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups within primary and community care settings, including psycho-education sessions.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including working for sustained periods of time by communicating with patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or advocates.
Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious information concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and progress of patients in both verbal and written formats.
To develop active clinical strategies for managing the waiting-list. To monitor and evaluate the impact of these strategies, and to modify strategies as needed
Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients as appropriate
2.2 Supervision and service management
Take part in regular professional clinical supervision
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2.2 Supervision and service management
- Take part in regular professional clinical supervision
- Employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (including trainee and qualified psychologists, and members of other staff groups) through the development and delivery of teaching, training and supervision programmes.
- Ensure that all members of the Locomotor Service and Pain Service and ME/CFS have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients and families/carers referred to the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This includes ensuring that a psychological perspective is provided in a wide range of settings where patient care is discussed, planned and organised.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate.
- To contribute to the pre - and post-qualification teaching of clinical/counselling psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To perform the following roles in relation to management, recruitment, policy and service development:
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To assist in managing the workloads of band 7 and trainee psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
2.3 Information management.
- Maintain electronic data systems for monitoring activity and outcomes across service area. Ensure appropriate use and administration of such systems by other members of staff within the service.
- To use appropriate computer software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS).
- To produce clinical reports/letters.
- To carry out literature searches relevant to clinical work and/or research.
2.4 Research, evaluation and development:
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research when necessary.
- To undertake, when necessary, project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
- Employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (including trainee and qualified psychologists, and members of other staff groups) through the development and delivery of teaching, training and supervision programmes.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To present research/evaluation findings in local settings, as appropriate.
- Ensure that all members of the Locomotor Service and Pain Service and ME/CFS have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients and families/carers referred to the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This includes ensuring that a psychological perspective is provided in a wide range of settings where patient care is discussed, planned and organised.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate.
- To contribute to the pre - and post-qualification teaching of clinical/counselling psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To perform the following roles in relation to management, recruitment, policy and service development:
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To assist in managing the workloads of band 7 and trainee psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
2.3 Information management.
- Maintain electronic data systems for monitoring activity and outcomes across service area. Ensure appropriate use and administration of such systems by other members of staff within the service.
- To use appropriate computer software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS).
- To produce clinical reports/letters.
- To carry out literature searches relevant to clinical work and/or research.
2.4 Research, evaluation and development:
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research when necessary.
- To present research/evaluation findings in local settings, as appropriate.
- To undertake, when necessary, project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Working Relationships
To work closely with the other clinical/counselling psychologists working in the locomotor service.
- To develop and maintain good working relationships with all staff in the Locomotor service, with the purpose of facilitating patient care, planning and dissemination of relevant information.
- To liaise with relevant others in the locomotor service, Primary Care and Acute Trusts and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a patients care.
GPs
Voluntary Sector providers
Service Users and their families/carers
- The post holder will be supervised by a senior psychologist and be accountable to the Leads of Psychological Services in pain management and ME/CFS
2. Functional Responsibilities
2.1 Clinical responsibilities:
Provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, employing evidence based interventions (group/individual).
To provide consultation and joint interventions as appropriate with members of pain service/locomotor service.
Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups within primary and community care settings, including psycho-education sessions.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including working for sustained periods of time by communicating with patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or advocates.
Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious information concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and progress of patients in both verbal and written formats.
To develop active clinical strategies for managing the waiting-list. To monitor and evaluate the impact of these strategies, and to modify strategies as needed
Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients as appropriate
2.2 Supervision and service management
Take part in regular professional clinical supervision
-
2.2 Supervision and service management
- Take part in regular professional clinical supervision
- Employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (including trainee and qualified psychologists, and members of other staff groups) through the development and delivery of teaching, training and supervision programmes.
- Ensure that all members of the Locomotor Service and Pain Service and ME/CFS have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients and families/carers referred to the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This includes ensuring that a psychological perspective is provided in a wide range of settings where patient care is discussed, planned and organised.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate.
- To contribute to the pre - and post-qualification teaching of clinical/counselling psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To perform the following roles in relation to management, recruitment, policy and service development:
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To assist in managing the workloads of band 7 and trainee psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
2.3 Information management.
- Maintain electronic data systems for monitoring activity and outcomes across service area. Ensure appropriate use and administration of such systems by other members of staff within the service.
- To use appropriate computer software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS).
- To produce clinical reports/letters.
- To carry out literature searches relevant to clinical work and/or research.
2.4 Research, evaluation and development:
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research when necessary.
- To undertake, when necessary, project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
- Employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (including trainee and qualified psychologists, and members of other staff groups) through the development and delivery of teaching, training and supervision programmes.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To present research/evaluation findings in local settings, as appropriate.
- Ensure that all members of the Locomotor Service and Pain Service and ME/CFS have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients and families/carers referred to the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This includes ensuring that a psychological perspective is provided in a wide range of settings where patient care is discussed, planned and organised.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate.
- To contribute to the pre - and post-qualification teaching of clinical/counselling psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To perform the following roles in relation to management, recruitment, policy and service development:
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To assist in managing the workloads of band 7 and trainee psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
2.3 Information management.
- Maintain electronic data systems for monitoring activity and outcomes across service area. Ensure appropriate use and administration of such systems by other members of staff within the service.
- To use appropriate computer software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS).
- To produce clinical reports/letters.
- To carry out literature searches relevant to clinical work and/or research.
2.4 Research, evaluation and development:
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research when necessary.
- To present research/evaluation findings in local settings, as appropriate.
- To undertake, when necessary, project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling, Health, Psychology, or CBT degree.
- HCPC Registration as Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT therapist
Desirable
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams Working towards further postgraduate experience
Skills & abilities
Essential
- Communication complex/sensitive information to patients & staff teams, MDT working, skills in helping patients overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Skills with groups, Skills for undertaking audit and monitoring of service activity and outcomes, planning service deliver
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience with patients physical health, pain, MDT, different cultural context, teaching other staff
Desirable
- Experience with MDT group, supervision, issues of demand & capacity
Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant NHS issues, pyschollogical interventions for pain/physical health
Other
Essential
- Trust values. Ability to manage highly emotive/distressing cases, manage organisation stress and able to hold stress of others, able to manage verbal aggressio,
- Ability to work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently as an independent practitioner, as a mentor and supervisor, and in MDT settings.. able to concentrate for substantial periods during patient & non patient contact, high quality written work & able meet deadlines
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling, Health, Psychology, or CBT degree.
- HCPC Registration as Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT therapist
Desirable
- Knowledge of models for consulting to teams Working towards further postgraduate experience
Skills & abilities
Essential
- Communication complex/sensitive information to patients & staff teams, MDT working, skills in helping patients overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Skills with groups, Skills for undertaking audit and monitoring of service activity and outcomes, planning service deliver
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience with patients physical health, pain, MDT, different cultural context, teaching other staff
Desirable
- Experience with MDT group, supervision, issues of demand & capacity
Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant NHS issues, pyschollogical interventions for pain/physical health
Other
Essential
- Trust values. Ability to manage highly emotive/distressing cases, manage organisation stress and able to hold stress of others, able to manage verbal aggressio,
- Ability to work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently as an independent practitioner, as a mentor and supervisor, and in MDT settings.. able to concentrate for substantial periods during patient & non patient contact, high quality written work & able meet deadlines
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).
