Clinical Psychologist in Integrated Pain Management

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical 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, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council

Desirable

• Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice such as ACT, EMDR or Health Psychology
• Other relevant academic qualifications to Master's or doctoral level.
• Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.

Essential

• Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Expirence of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
• Experience of the application of psychology in different contexts.
• Experience working in a multi- disciplinary setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• High level of knowledge of health psychology or adult mental health services
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting, and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

Desirable

• Experience working in a hospital/community or physical health setting.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of managing staff.
• Experience of working across the lifespan.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• High level knowledge and skills in working with staff groups and organisations.

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytic skills
• Skills in individual and group work and programme planning.
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing to convey complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to clients or other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
• IT skills to fulfil the duties of the job description.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Able to sit for prolonged periods in a constrained position, including delivery of virtual sessions

Desirable

• Experience of providing training or therapy via an online platform such as Microsoft Teams

Essential

• Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
• Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
• Proactive, can-do attitude and responsive to the needs of staff support team members and other staff
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
• Good organisational skills
• Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of local adult mental health services and the referral pathways for those patients presenting with a significant mental health risk