Consultant Psychologist in Pain Management

Consultant Psychologist in Pain Management NHS AfC: Band 8c

Main area: CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (CHPS)
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent, requires travel weekly to Queens Hospital, Romford
Hours: Part time - 10 hours per week
Job ref: 395-PP020-25

Site: Queens Hospital, Romford
Town: Romford
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 plus HCAS per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/02/:59

Joining means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job Overview

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:

1. Clinical excellence and experience in delivering comprehensive pain management programmes, and working with a range of pain aetiologies, including acute and persistent pain.
2. The promotion of appropriate provision of evidence-based psychological treatments within PMPs (mainly group but also individual programmes).
3. Maintaining and improving the quality of group-based self-management training and support offered to participants.
4. Specialist spinal cord stimulation assessments.

Detailed Job Description and Main 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 within a multidisciplinary framework.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical, and psychological health of people with psychological distress in the Pain Management Programme/Pain service, utilizing a bio-psycho-social model.

Person Specification Qualifications

• HCPC registration as a clinical/counselling psychologist.
• Postgraduate 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.

Equal Opportunities Employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.