Practitioner Psychologist

This is a part-time, 22.5 hours per week (0.6 WTE), Band 8a position, offering the opportunity to work as an integral member of a specialist multidisciplinary team supporting people living with chronic pain The post holder will be based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, with an expectation to work across other University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) sites, including Solihull Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Heartlands Hospital if service needs require. Main duties of the job, As a Practitioner Psychologist within the Chronic Pain Service, you will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people living with chronic pain and its associated psychological, emotional and functional impact. You will work closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team to provide holistic, evidence-based and person-centred care. Key aspects of the role will include:

• Providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people living
with chronic pain.
• Delivering evidence-based psychological therapies tailored to the needs of patients with
persistent and complex pain.
• 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
professional colleagues to support integrated patient care.
• Supporting patients to develop strategies for managing the psychological and wider impact of
living with chronic pain.
• Contributing to the continued development and evaluation of psychological provision within
the Chronic Pain Service. Leadership, Teaching and Service Development Alongside your clinical responsibilities, this role provides excellent opportunities to develop and contribute beyond direct patient care., Main Duties and Tasks Confinued : The successful applicant will have opportunities to contribute to clinical leadership, teaching and training, supervision, and service development, helping to shape and strengthen psychological provision within the Chronic Pain Service Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description. Job description, Main Duties and Tasks Confinued : The successful applicant will have opportunities to contribute to clinical leadership, teaching and training, supervision, and service development, helping to shape and strengthen psychological provision within the Chronic Pain Service Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.


• 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.
Experience 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.
  
  University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.