Practitioner Psychologist - Tower Hamlets Persistent Pain Service
Barts Health NHS Trust
London, E1 4DG
Salary
£58,133 to £65,261
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
4 October 2026
29 days left
Job description
We are delighted to offer a permanent Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist post within theTower Hamlets Persistent Pain Management Service. This is an exc...
To be responsible, with the lead clinical psychologist, for providing high quality, specialist clinical / counselling / health psychology input to the Tower Hamlets Persistent Pain Service.
This role involves delivering and developing pain management and psychological skills groups, alongside leading service improvement projects that enhance patient care and team effectiveness. The postholder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for individuals experiencing persistent pain, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to promote holistic, evidence-based approaches to pain management. In addition, the role contributes to ongoing service development, evaluation, and innovation to ensure high-quality, patient-centered care.
Where appropriate, the post holder exercises autonomous professional responsibility for clinical decisions, working within professional guidelines and the team's policies and procedures.
The postholder is required to attend on site three days per week at the Mile End Tower Hamlets Pain Service, preferably on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Remote working may be considered on days when there is no scheduled clinical activity, subject to service needs and agreement with the line manager.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate training in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable
- Additional formal training or qualification relevant to Clinical Health Psychology and/or Trauma
- Membership of relevant professional group or society e.g. BPS, ACP, British Pain Soc, IASP
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in physical health settings
- Experience of psychological assessment, intervention and management working with a wide range of clinical presentations with complex, long-term co-morbid physical and mental health conditions including pain and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Desirable
- Extensive experience over several years of working in clinical health psychology
- Experience of working in a pain management programme
- Experience of working with clients with trauma
- Experience of working with service user representatives
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies (e.g. ACT, CBT, EMDR) with relevant client groups (e.g. people with long-term co-morbid physical and mental health problems, histories of trauma and abuse)
- Skilled in working with the above clients individually and within groups and managing group dynamics in the face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with individuals, couples, families and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and 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
- Skills in delivering and developing group therapy interventions.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Post-graduate level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology
Desirable
- Written and spoken proficiency in Bengali and/or Sylheti
- Published peer-reviewed research and/or conference presentations within the field of clinical health psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of the wider landscape involved in the management of chronic pain
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First seen
4 September 2026
Last checked
5 September 2026
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