Consultant Clinical Psychologist Pain
| Posting date: | 22 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £83,790.38 to £96,007.23 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £83790.38 - £96007.23 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 October 2025 |
| Location: | Jersey, JE2 3DN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | K0011-25-2811 |
Summary
Professional Leadership, Staff Supervision & Service Development (20%) 1. To provide effective leadership operational management for psychological service provision within whole department. Motivating and inspiring others to deliver the best quality, evidenced based and efficient care for patients within the psychological, behavioural aspects and compassion focused and mindfulness based aspects of the speciality, by promoting a research and innovation culture within the team. Develops, supervises and supports staff through role modelling, coaching, formal supervision and mentoring; highlighting opportunities for effective professional development, addressing areas of potential clinical risk as they may arise 2. Devises, manages, reviews and updates models of service delivery, policies and procedures within own Specialist area, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology so that services are sustainable and able to adapt to changing capacity demands. Research & Audit (20%) 3. Develops own expert research portfolio; publishing and presenting work in peer reviewed journals and at national and international conferences on a biennial cycle; where necessary co-ordinating multiple projects simultaneously. Maintaining and developing partnerships and relationships with research colleagues and higher education institutions and other professional bodies. 4. Works with Pain Lead and Consultant AHP in pain to strategically implement quality performance measurement of Pain Management Services; manages clinical audit programme for specialist psychology team; leading on the integration of audit and research evidence into pain psychology practice. Lecturing, Teaching & Training (20%) 5. Provides specialist pain psychology science and practice - related training to all other professions as part of remit of Specialist service, ensuring a consistent and up to date appreciation of relevant science and therapeutic applications across the organisation and community. Provides specialist expertise to HCS and Gov.je departments and higher education institutions, including undergraduate and post-graduate degree programmes. 6. Through local, national and international networks, organises specialist training, teaching and national conference opportunities locally. 7. Implements Teaching & Training Strategy for Pain Management Services, engaging HCS, and community and 3rd sector partners through co-design opportunities. Expert Clinical Practice (40%) 8. Professionally responsible and accountable for the expert triage, assessment, formulation, treatment and management of caseload of highly complex (co-morbid; complex psychosocial issues; associated mental health challenges; high prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences e.g. sexual abuse and other trauma) patients directly referred to the Persistent Pain Multidisciplinary team within the Pain Management Centre; and directly intervenes with these issues. Managing and proactively engaging in effective interdepartmental liaison related to the dynamic management of risk. 9. Designs, implements and appraises specialist pain psychological assessment, education and rehabilitation packages for highly complex persistent pain conditions; routinely reviewing and updating specialised care packages in line with new developments within the Pain Science, psychological and mindfulness based fields, including leading on the development and delivery of innovative psychological practices, applied to pain (e.g. psychological trauma informed treatments; relational and neurofeedback applications).