Clinical / Counselling / Health Psychologist

Job overview

Job Title: Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist

Salary: Band 7, 0.8 w.t.e / 30 hours per week

Location: Clinical Health Psychology Department, RNOH, Stanmore, London, HA7 4LP

• Under supervision of a Senior  Psychologist, to provide a qualified psychology service to inpatients and outpatients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention to both inpatients and outpatients of the RNOH and particularly those with chronic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions who receive care from our pain management and rheumatological teams.
• To provide regular clinical supervision for pre-qualification psychology staff and engage in regular peer supervision with colleagues.
• To offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to members of the multidisciplinary team and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service and to take the lead for specific areas of service development.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed individual to work in the Clinical Health Psychology department, based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.  This role includes outpatient psychological assessment and therapy and contributing towards the psychological component of our inpatient pain management programmes.

We are looking to recruit an HCPC-registered, clinical/health/counselling psychologist ideally with training or post-training experience within the area of physical health.

This post involves working with people with chronic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions and also providing advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to members of the multidisciplinary team.

The Clinical Health Psychology department currently consists of two full-time and five part-time members of staff with backgrounds in Clinical, Health and Counselling Psychology.

We offer a supportive and friendly environment and are able to provide excellent opportunities for CPD, supervision and peer supervision, and teaching and training of healthcare professionals aimed at developing innovative services of supporting health-related behaviour change

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the psychology service and attending our inpatient pain management and rehabilitation programmes. To use, interpret and integrate complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care in order to reach a psychological formulation of a patient’s difficulties.
• To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s psychological distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, both individually and in conjunction with members of the multidisciplinary team, for individuals and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• In common with all psychologists, to receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.