Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
27 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Personal Qualities
Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
- Personal Qualities
Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
- Personal Qualities
Proactive, can-do attitude and responsive to the needs of staff support team members and other staff
- Personal Qualities
Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Personal Qualities
Good organisational skills
- Personal Qualities
Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
- Personal Qualities
Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Personal Qualities
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills & Abilities
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytic skills
- Skills & Abilities
Skills in individual and group work and programme planning.
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing to convey complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to clients or other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with clients.
- Skills & Abilities
IT skills to fulfil the duties of the job description.
- Skills & Abilities
Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
- Skills & Abilities
Able to sit for prolonged periods in a constrained position, including delivery of virtual sessions
- Experience & Knowledge
Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience & Knowledge
Expirence of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of the application of psychology in different contexts.
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience working in a multi- disciplinary setting.
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience & Knowledge
High level of knowledge of health psychology or adult mental health services
- Experience & Knowledge
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
- Experience & Knowledge
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting, and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management.
- Experience & Knowledge
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Education & Qualifications
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical 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, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence
- Education & Qualifications
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable
12 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Personal Qualities
Knowledge and understanding of local adult mental health services and the referral pathways for those patients presenting with a significant mental health risk
- Skills & Abilities
Experience of providing training or therapy via an online platform such as Microsoft Teams
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience working in a hospital/community or physical health setting.
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of managing staff.
- Experience & Knowledge
Experience of working across the lifespan.
- Experience & Knowledge
Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience & Knowledge
High level knowledge and skills in working with staff groups and organisations.
- Education & Qualifications
Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised areas of psychological practice such as ACT, EMDR or Health Psychology
- Education & Qualifications
Other relevant academic qualifications to Master’s or doctoral level.
- Education & Qualifications
Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
Job overview
We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our Integrated Pain Management Service as a Clinical Psychologist. This role provides specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, intervention, consultation, and leadership to support patients with chronic pain management. The role is integrated within the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team and contributes to holistic, patient-centred care across the pain pathway.
The postholder works with adults who present with Cognitive impairment, Emotional and psychological adjustment difficulties, Behavioural changes, Anxiety and depression, Trauma-related responses and Communication and functional challenges following stroke. The psychologist supports by helping patients maximise engagement, independence, emotional wellbeing, and quality of life.
We would welcome applications from trainee Practitioner Psychologists in final year, as well as more experienced Practitioner Psychologists.
Main duties of the job
Undertake comprehensive psychological and neuropsychological assessments of patients with chronic pain, including cognition, mood, behaviour, risk, and capacity
Formulate complex clinical presentations to inform individualised care and rehabilitation planning
Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions to support adjustment, emotional wellbeing, and engagement in rehabilitation
Provide interventions for common mental health difficulties, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and distress
Contribute to the management of cognitive impairment, advising on strategies to support memory, attention, executive functioning, and behaviour
Support rehabilitation planning, goal setting, safe discharge, and community reintegration
Work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to MDT discussions, care planning, and decision-making
Provide specialist psychological consultation and promote psychologically informed approaches to care
Offer psychoeducation and emotional support to families and carers, supporting adjustment and management of complex needs
Provide training, consultation, and reflective practice to MDT colleagues to support delivery of high-quality care
Participate in clinical audit, service evaluation, and quality improvement initiatives
Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with professional and organisational standards
Work in accordance with relevant professional, ethical, and governance frameworks
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the full job description to see the full job details and responsibilities for this job role.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Psychologist in Integrated Pain Management with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Bury St Edmunds, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Sep 2026.
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