Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in pain management

This is an exciting opportunity to join Whittington Health and contribute to the provision of a community pain service in Haringey. We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled clinical or counselling psychologist with a keen interest in pain management to take on this role. The post holder will join a multidisciplinary pain team that includes Pain Consultants, Pain Psychologists, Advanced Practice Physiotherapists, Pain Management Physiotherapists, service manager and administrative staff. The post involves close working with MDT members to provide holistic care to treat persistent pain in a community setting so strong communication and team-working skills are essential.

The post holder will ideally have some post‑qualification clinical and consulting experience in the area of physical health care (including chronic health conditions) and with self‑management groups. The successful candidate will be offering evidence‑based pain psychology assessments and interventions for persistent pain patients. The post holder will be supervised by the lead clinical psychologist and will have access to Whittington Health CPD for mental health professionals. We also have close links with our neighbouring pain psychology team, Whittington secondary care pain team for network meetings and CPD.

Main duties of the job:

• Please see job advert for Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in pain management attached to this website.

Working for our organisation:

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Please see job advert for Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in pain management attached to this website.

Person specification:

Education / Qualifications:

• Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC.
• Current registration with Health professions Council (HCPC) as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist.

Skills and Abilities:

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Well‑developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups with regard to pain management or other physical health conditions.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi‑media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Interest and ability to contribute to service development.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts (including work with clients from different cultural backgrounds).
• Experience of health professional teaching, training and supervision.
• Well‑developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with chronic pain or physical health conditions.
• Knowledge of clinical health psychology literature on behaviour change and its application in the clinical environment.
• Specialist knowledge of the theoretical background and practice of pain management.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client groups and mental health.
• Completion of substantial post‑doctoral post‑qualification supervised clinical health psychology experience working with clients in the area of chronic pain or a related client group.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of chronic pain clients including group pain management programmes and individual pain management.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology to physical health problems including chronic health conditions.
• Experience of contributing to service design and evaluation projects.
• Experience of working as a psychologist within a physical health multi‑disciplinary team.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS:

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Other important information:

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.
• We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met.
• Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns.
• We are committed to equal opportunities.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre‑employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating.

For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk.

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges:

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers:

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Contact:

Name: Dr Silan Gyane

Email address: silan.gyane1@nhs.net

If you have problems applying, contact the NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060.