HCPC registered Clinical, Health or Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 p.a. Inclusive of HCA (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5866165/196-LIS8477 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Psychologist has arisen in our unit, one of the few departments in the country offering high intensity multidisciplinary residential pain management programmes. We are seeking a committed practitioner Clinical, Health or Counselling Psychologist with a keen interest in chronic pain management. The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary team and will be involved in running pain management programmes, offering individual psychological interventions and contributing to multidisciplinary assessments. We offer a wide range of services, including residential pain management programmes, outpatient programmes, virtual programmes, a one-to-one pathway and a self-directed, therapist supported online programme.
We welcome applications from experienced Band 7 Psychologists, but will also consider candidates who recently completed clinical training and are eligible for HCPC registration.
The post holder will provide a professional psychology service to patients in the specialist field of chronic pain, offering highly specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation. This includes helping patients with chronic pain to live a full and healthy life, using evidence-based ACT principles and methods. Skills in both group-based an individual therapy are essential. Psychologists are integral members of the multidisciplinary team, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policy and procedure. They have responsibility for ensuring the theoretical integrity of the programme and guiding the multidisciplinary team in providing a high-quality service based on current research and knowledge. They offer advice about clients’ psychological care to other professionals as well as non-professional carers.
Our unit has strong research and training links with the Institute of Psychiatry and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical psychologists. The department plays a key role in training health professionals from varied backgrounds and frequently hosts visitors from the UK and overseas. The post holder will be expected to contribute to training and supervision.
You will have a keen interest in psychology applied to physical health, and will ideally have some experience in working with chronic health conditions.
If you are looking for a chance to be part of a well-established and reputable clinical and research centre at the cutting edge of clinical health psychology, we would like to hear from you. Our department has implemented a number of exciting and novel service developments (including an online pain management programme and virtual group programmes).
The Pain Management Service is a friendly unit, where psychologists are valued for the contribution they make to the multidisciplinary team; they work closely with pain consultants, clinical nurse specialists, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists.
There is a commitment in the team to research, audit and evaluation work, and you would input into the process of audit and service development. There are seven clinical psychologists and an assistant psychologist based within the multidisciplinary unit.
You will have opportunities to link up with other psychologists working within the Trust and will be encouraged to network with members of the Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology. Regular CPD events are held within the Trust, Kings Health Partners and the service. This is a well-supported position with ready access to individual and peer supervision.
We are privileged to be in a prime location in central London, just opposite the Houses of Parliament with many amenities on site and near-by. There are good public transport links (Waterloo, Westminster and Victoria Stations are all close)
Main Clinical responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the pain management team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients’ care. This mainly includes contributing to multidisciplinary assessments.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s physical and psychological health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for groups and individuals, within and across teams. This will include outpatient, individually tailored treatment for chronic pain and related problems such as depression, anxiety and trauma as well as inpatient group pain management treatment and therapist supported online programmes.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals internal and external to the service contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
8. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
9. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice, consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
10. To ensure provision of a care package appropriate to the patients’ needs, and where necessary, advise on and facilitate referrals to other services.
11. Jointly with other psychologists, to ensure that the programme remains consistent with ACT and the psychological flexibility model on which it is based.
This advert closes on Friday 31 May 2024
An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Psychologist has arisen in our unit, one of the few departments in the country offering high intensity multidisciplinary residential pain management programmes. We are seeking a committed practitioner Clinical, Health or Counselling Psychologist with a keen interest in chronic pain management. The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary team and will be involved in running pain management programmes, offering individual psychological interventions and contributing to multidisciplinary assessments. We offer a wide range of services, including residential pain management programmes, outpatient programmes, virtual programmes, a one-to-one pathway and a self-directed, therapist supported online programme.
We welcome applications from experienced Band 7 Psychologists, but will also consider candidates who recently completed clinical training and are eligible for HCPC registration.
The post holder will provide a professional psychology service to patients in the specialist field of chronic pain, offering highly specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation. This includes helping patients with chronic pain to live a full and healthy life, using evidence-based ACT principles and methods. Skills in both group-based an individual therapy are essential. Psychologists are integral members of the multidisciplinary team, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policy and procedure. They have responsibility for ensuring the theoretical integrity of the programme and guiding the multidisciplinary team in providing a high-quality service based on current research and knowledge. They offer advice about clients’ psychological care to other professionals as well as non-professional carers.
Our unit has strong research and training links with the Institute of Psychiatry and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical psychologists. The department plays a key role in training health professionals from varied backgrounds and frequently hosts visitors from the UK and overseas. The post holder will be expected to contribute to training and supervision.
You will have a keen interest in psychology applied to physical health, and will ideally have some experience in working with chronic health conditions.
If you are looking for a chance to be part of a well-established and reputable clinical and research centre at the cutting edge of clinical health psychology, we would like to hear from you. Our department has implemented a number of exciting and novel service developments (including an online pain management programme and virtual group programmes).
The Pain Management Service is a friendly unit, where psychologists are valued for the contribution they make to the multidisciplinary team; they work closely with pain consultants, clinical nurse specialists, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists.
There is a commitment in the team to research, audit and evaluation work, and you would input into the process of audit and service development. There are seven clinical psychologists and an assistant psychologist based within the multidisciplinary unit.
You will have opportunities to link up with other psychologists working within the Trust and will be encouraged to network with members of the Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology. Regular CPD events are held within the Trust, Kings Health Partners and the service. This is a well-supported position with ready access to individual and peer supervision.
We are privileged to be in a prime location in central London, just opposite the Houses of Parliament with many amenities on site and near-by. There are good public transport links (Waterloo, Westminster and Victoria Stations are all close)
Main Clinical responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the pain management team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients’ care. This mainly includes contributing to multidisciplinary assessments.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s physical and psychological health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for groups and individuals, within and across teams. This will include outpatient, individually tailored treatment for chronic pain and related problems such as depression, anxiety and trauma as well as inpatient group pain management treatment and therapist supported online programmes.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals internal and external to the service contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
8. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
9. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice, consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
10. To ensure provision of a care package appropriate to the patients’ needs, and where necessary, advise on and facilitate referrals to other services.
11. Jointly with other psychologists, to ensure that the programme remains consistent with ACT and the psychological flexibility model on which it is based.
This advert closes on Friday 31 May 2024