Band 8a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist

• Providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people living

• Delivering evidence-based psychological therapies tailored to the needs of patients with

• Providing psychological input to co-lead our multidisciplinary Pain Management Programme.
• Contributing psychological expertise to multidisciplinary team clinics and discussions.
• Working collaboratively with medical, nursing, physiotherapy and other allied health

• Supporting patients to develop strategies for managing the psychological and wider impact of

• Contributing to the continued development and evaluation of psychological provision within

Essential

• * Doctoral level training in clinical,counselling or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of
• psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• * HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• (Candidates for posts who i) possess a qualification
• in clinical/counselling/health psychology obtained
• oversees, that does not fully meet UK training
• requirements; ii) are seeking lateral transfer from
• another branch of applied psychology; or iii) hold a
• research degree in a clinical subject, must provide
• evidence that they have obtained a Statement of
• Equivalence in awarded by the BPS Committee for
• the Scrutiny of Individual Clinical Qualifications
• further to the satisfactory completion of such
• additional training as is required by the CSICQ.

Desirable

• * Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology that may be relevant in a clinical health psychology setting.
• * Pre- or post-qualification training or additional qualifications in an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or other psychological therapy including CFT, ACT, DBT, MBT, brief psychodynamic interventions, systemic therapy, CAT, EMDR.

Essential

• * Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling/health psychologist, including demonstrable experience within people affected by physical illness.
• * Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• * Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
• including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• * Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
• * Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• * An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people affected by the condition or clinical issue for whom the psychology service for this post works with.
• * Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical/counselling/health psychology.
• * Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• * Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

Desirable

• * Experience of working in acute physical health settings.
• * Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care (particularly physical health settings).
• * Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• * Experience of working with people affected by physical illness.
• * Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• * Awareness of legislation and policy in relation to the clinical specialty and mental health
• * Experience of short-term care provision e.g. brief assessments, short inpatient stays.