Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist in Pain Management

Join us to apply your psychological expertise in a unique military setting. As a civilian clinician supporting serving members of the Armed Forces, you can retain your NHS pension, Agenda for Change pay, and leave benefits. Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) is part of Cyber and Specialist Operations Command, Within DMRC rehabilitation teams include Complex Trauma, Neurological Services, Force Generation (Spines and Upper Quadrant, Specialist Rehabilitation (rehab), Lower Limbs). The pain service is a key element to that service provision and patients rehabilitation. Patients seen at DMRC have a variety of conditions and are rehabilitated by a consultant led interdisciplinary team (IDT). Your role will be to lead, develop and provide a pain psychology service to facilitate rehabilitation. This is a full time position, offering Monday to Thursday 0800- 1700 and Friday 0800-1330. As a Principal Clinical Psychologist in Pain Management, you will be recognised and supported through excellent rewards and employee benefits, including:

• NHS Pension
• Free parking
• Onsite gym and swimming pool with only a small cost
• Onsite shop
• An inclusive working environment
• Learning and development opportunities
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts., Based at DMRC Stanford Hall, you will provide, develop, and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the pain service, across all sectors of care, including the provision of specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring outcomes. To offer clinical advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. In this key clinical role, you will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of military and civilian mental health professionals. You will take a leading role in developing the Pain Psychology Service and contribute to its ongoing service development within Pain Services. We support you in pursuing your clinical interests and encourage involvement in supervision, audit, research, service development, and training activities.

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us. Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government. The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay. In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team. If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.