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Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 8JL |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6914939/391-NMUH-6914939 |
Summary
Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist / CBT Therapist in Pain Management
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Enfield Pain Service (EPS) which serves patients who have a long-term pain condition e.g. chronic lower back pain, chronic widespread pain, fibromyalgia. The focus of the Enfield Pain Service is to help patients understand their pain condition, as well as supporting them to develop a range of skills and strategies to manage their pain effectively long-term and improve quality of life . You'll be joining a supportive multidisciplinary team of comprising of medical, physiotherapy and psychology professionals - with the post holder being supervised by a Band 8a psychologist.
A background and interest in working with long-term health conditions is an advantage, however the post-holder will also receive training and on-going support within the service. The daily duties will involve supporting the MDT in terms of psychological assessment and delivering 1:1 and group interventions based on CBT, ACT and CFT approaches, along with contributing to service evaluation/improvement projects, supervising an assistant psychologist and liaising with other relevant services e.g. Talking Therapies, MSK services.
Working in Pain can be incredibly rewarding and the post-holder will likely be able to develop their psychological skills and expertise that can be generalisable to lots of other types of physical health conditions.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment
• Provide specialist 1:1 psychological interventions based on cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy and/or compassion focused therapy.
• Co-facilitate group pain management programmes (PMP’s) and contribute to the development of PMP’s
• Contribute to the collection and analysis of outcome data of both individual and group interventions
• Offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services’ policies and procedures
• Utilise research skills for audit and research purposes as required.
• The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Please view the attached job description and person specification to obtain further information about the main responsibilities of this post. You are also more than welcome to contact us directly to obtain further information.
This advert closes on Friday 23 May 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Enfield Pain Service (EPS) which serves patients who have a long-term pain condition e.g. chronic lower back pain, chronic widespread pain, fibromyalgia. The focus of the Enfield Pain Service is to help patients understand their pain condition, as well as supporting them to develop a range of skills and strategies to manage their pain effectively long-term and improve quality of life . You'll be joining a supportive multidisciplinary team of comprising of medical, physiotherapy and psychology professionals - with the post holder being supervised by a Band 8a psychologist.
A background and interest in working with long-term health conditions is an advantage, however the post-holder will also receive training and on-going support within the service. The daily duties will involve supporting the MDT in terms of psychological assessment and delivering 1:1 and group interventions based on CBT, ACT and CFT approaches, along with contributing to service evaluation/improvement projects, supervising an assistant psychologist and liaising with other relevant services e.g. Talking Therapies, MSK services.
Working in Pain can be incredibly rewarding and the post-holder will likely be able to develop their psychological skills and expertise that can be generalisable to lots of other types of physical health conditions.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment
• Provide specialist 1:1 psychological interventions based on cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy and/or compassion focused therapy.
• Co-facilitate group pain management programmes (PMP’s) and contribute to the development of PMP’s
• Contribute to the collection and analysis of outcome data of both individual and group interventions
• Offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services’ policies and procedures
• Utilise research skills for audit and research purposes as required.
• The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Please view the attached job description and person specification to obtain further information about the main responsibilities of this post. You are also more than welcome to contact us directly to obtain further information.
This advert closes on Friday 23 May 2025