Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist Pain Management Band 7 - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist Pain Management Band 7

Fixed-Term: 12 months maternity cover

Part-time: hours per week

We are looking for a HCPC Registered Clinical, Counselling, or Health Psychologist to join our well-established multidisciplinary team within the Pain Management Service and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. We would consider applications from newly qualified psychologists with appropriate trainee experience and/or interest in physical health.

This band 7 post is wte (3 days) and is being offered to cover the recumbent psychologist's maternity leave. The current days are Weds, Thursday and Fridays but we would be open to negotiation. The post is held within the outpatient pain management department at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and offers experience of specialist assessment clinics, dual psychologist and physiotherapist intervention clinics, group and 1:1 work. To work in sessions with both physiotherapists and pain consultants.

In the event of a successful candidate being pre-HCPC registered the post will be re-banded to Band 6 and made fixed term for one year or until such a time as the post-holder achieves registered status in order for the post to become Band 7 substantive. The below duties therefore would be subject to appropriate clinical supervision from a HCPC registered psychologist in the team.

PLEASE NOTE VACANCY WILL CLOSE ONCE SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED

Main duties of the job

To participate in the design and delivery of the psychology service to a diverse range of patients and presentations within the Pain Management Service

To be able to accurately triage patient's difficulties related to their persistent pain from a biopsychosocial perspective and decide with them the most appropriate pathway of assessment and treatment

To be able to provide a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and formulation to the benefit of both the patient and fellow professionals also involved in their care

To participate in the design and delivery of current specialist interdisciplinary pathways with the Pain Management Therapy Service inclusive of, Pain Management Programmes (online and in-person); Spinal Cord Stimulation; Fibromyalgia; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome; Survivors of Torture and Pelvic Pain.

To manage your own caseload of complex individuals and presentations within your individual psychology clinic; dual psychology-physiotherapy clinic; education sessions; and pain management therapy groups.

To use a range of evidence-based psychological models and therapies (specifically ACT, CBT, EMDR) to benefit patient's management of their persistent pain related difficulty.

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's,in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for -our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe,effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To participate in the design and delivery of the psychology service to a diverse range of patients and presentations within the Pain Management Service

To be able to accurately triage patients difficulties related to their persistent pain from a biopsychosocial perspective and decide with them the most appropriate pathway of assessment and treatment

To be able to provide a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and formulation to the benefit of both the patient and fellow professionals also involved in their care

To participate in the design and delivery of current specialist interdisciplinary pathways with the Pain Management Therapy Service inclusive of, Pain Management Programmes (online and in-person); Spinal Cord Stimulation; Fibromyalgia; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome; Survivors of Torture and Pelvic Pain.

To manage your own caseload of complex individuals and presentations within your individual psychology clinic; dual psychology-physiotherapy clinic; education sessions; and pain management therapy groups.

To use a range of evidence-based psychological models and therapies (specifically ACT, CBT, EMDR) to benefit patients management of their persistent pain related difficulty.

To participate in multidisciplinary meetings and discussions and management of complex problems in patients with the Pain Management Service.

To comprehensively assess and manage potential risk of suicide and harmful behaviour in patients within the Pain Management Service and to communicate management plans to relevant services.

To be able to provide high quality often sensitive verbal and written information to patients and other professionals involved in their care.

To input and maintain appropriate written and digital records inclusive of the Trusts electronic patient record.

To maintain compliance with statutory and regulatory standards to ensure safe practice and highest standards of care.

To maintain up to date knowledge of registration, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To participate in the maintenance of waiting lists and the Therapy Services programme of work.

To participate in co-development of pain management services with people with lived experience of pain

Training, Teaching, Supervision and Consultation

To develop and deliver appropriate training and teaching sessions for psychological and multidisciplinary colleagues and other relevant services on a range of psychological and pain-related issues

To be prepared to undertake training relevant to the development and delivery of your role as a psychologist within pain management

To be prepared to provide supervision to assistant and trainee psychologists within the department

To receive regular individual and/or group/modality specific supervision from psychological colleagues

To provide appropriate psychologically informed consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues on a range of issues related to patients under their care

To be available for psychologically informed consultation by colleagues via a range of mediums

Research and Evaluations

To promote and disseminate relevant psychology and pain related research and evidenced based practice within appropriate meetings and forums within the multidisciplinary team and other relevant services

To develop and contribute to the Pain Management Services Research Profile via the publishing of posters, articles, studies in relevant journals and via attendance at relevant domestic and international conferences

To provide research consultation and supervision to the wider multidisciplinary team

To develop, maintain and present audits of outcome data within the Pain Therapy Pathways to inform iterative development of Therapy Interventions and best practice

PLEASE SEE JD/PS FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE POST

Education and Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Desirable