Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist

Job overview

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist psychological assessment
• Provide specialist 1:1 psychological interventions based on cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy and/or compassion focused therapy.
• Provide clinical supervision and line management to staff.
• Co-facilitate group pain management programmes (PMP’s) and contribute to the development of PMP’s
• Contribute to the collection and analysis of outcome data of both individual and group interventions
• Contribute to the management, delivery and performance of the service.
• Offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services’ policies and procedures
• Utilise research skills for audit and research purposes as required.
• The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to obtain further information about the main responsibilities of this post. You are also more than welcome to contact us directly to obtain further information.