Band 8a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inclusive of LCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, HA8 0AD |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6256276/391-RFL-5951240-C |
Summary
We are offering a maternity leave cover post for a year where you will join a dynamic pain psychology team offering both individual and group treatment. You will be part of this established specialist team providing input to the secondary care persistent pain multi-disciplinary team. The pain service is based at Edgware Community Hospital though you would also be expected to travel to other venues within the Trust or sites where the pain management programme is delivered.
You would also belong to a larger community of psychological therapies in the Trust that offers a variety of specialist supervision groups, training days and informal support structure.
You would be expected to offer assessments individually or alongside MDT professionals and interventions that include the pain management programme and other group programmes. You would also provide advice, consultation and guidance to the wider MDT team and be expected to contribute to the audit programme within the speciality. Please see the job description and person specification for further information.
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals and other clinical sites, our dedicated staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.
As a trust we stand for being positively welcoming, actively respectful, clearly communicating and visibly reassuring. We focus on delivering excellent and equitable care, ensure an outstanding experience for our patients and carers, where colleagues feel a strong connection to their work and organisation and are enabled to deliver and realise their potential.
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
For further details and informal visits please contact Dr Esther Hansen, Trust Lead for Psychological Therapies, Neuropsychology and Counselling on rf.psychologicaltherapies@nhs.net or Dr Kate Ridout, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and interim Pain Psychology Lead on kate.ridout@nhs.net.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024