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    Band 8a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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    Job summary

    We are offering a maternity leave cover post for a year where you will join a dynamic pain psychology team offering both individual and group will be part of this established specialist team providing input to the secondary care persistent pain multi-disciplinary team. The pain service is based at Edgware Community Hospital though you would also be expected to travel to other venues within the Trust or sites where the pain management programme is delivered.

    You would also belong to a larger community of psychological therapies in the Trust that offers a variety of specialist supervision groups, training days and informal support structure.

    Main duties of the job

    You would be expected to offer assessments individually or alongside MDT professionals and interventions that include the pain management programme and other group programmes. You would also provide advice, consultation and guidance to the wider MDT team and be expected to contribute to the audit programme within the speciality. Please see the job description and person specification for further information.

    About us

    The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals and other clinical sites, our dedicated staff care for over million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million a trust we stand for being positively welcoming, actively respectful, clearly communicating and visibly reassuring. We focus on delivering excellent and equitable care, ensure an outstanding experience for our patients and carers, where colleagues feel a strong connection to their work and organisation and are enabled to deliver and realise their potential.

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    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    For further details and informal visits please contact Dr Esther Hansen, Trust Lead for Psychological Therapies, Neuropsychology and Counselling on or Dr Kate Ridout, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and interim Pain Psychology Lead on .

    Person Specification

    Royal Free World Class Values

    Essential

  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
  • Education & professional Qualifications

    Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000)
  • HCPC registration
  • Desirable

  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, 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
  • Evidence of postqualification clinical experience in management of clients with persistent pain, using cognitivebehavioural assessment and intervention techniques.
  • Post-qualification experience of facilitating multidisciplinary Group Pain Management Program.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
  • Desirable

  • Completion of at least two years post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical experience with persistent pain patients.
  • Post-qualification experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments.


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