Job requirements
Essential
10 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
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
Experience of providing teaching, training and professional clinical supervision
- Special Circumstances
Ability to travel between sites within Buckinghamshire.
- Education/Qualification
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996/Psychological Therapists) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Education/Qualification
Registration with HCPC
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management (frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration)
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Knowledge of legislation in relation to patients with psychological difficulties.
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological therapies and assessment methodologies, in particular CBT, and their application with adults with chronic pain, and fatigue and Long COVID.
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist/psychological therapist within the specialist field of Clinical Health Psychology.
- Experience
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified
- Experience
Experience of providing teaching, training and professional clinical supervision.
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our dedicated and well-established interdisciplinary chronic pain and fatigue management service with a focus on supporting people with Long COVID.
We welcome applications from newly qualified, or less experienced clinical psychologists who can initially be appointed to a Band 7 Development Post. The post holder will be supported to develop their skills across predetermined core competencies. Once they have been assessed as meeting these competencies, they will move to band 8a in the service.
The service works with people with a wide range of chronic pain conditions, ME/CFS and Long COVID. The post holder will be involved in assessment and a range of interventions including group, individual and workshops. The service is delivered from sites in Aylesbury and Amersham.
Good communication and team-working skills are essential. Previous experience with the identified client groups is not a prerequisite.
You will receive clinical supervision from the Principal Clinical Psychologist and have access to a wide range of CPD activities and a strong network of Psychologists working in the Trust. There are opportunities for service development, service evaluation/research and teaching/training. The Trust has excellent links with the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research and regularly has trainees doing clinical placements.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality highly specialist clinical psychology service to persons with Long COVID, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) across all sectors of care, within the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service and Long COVID assessment clinic. To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service. To utilise research skills, for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes which may impact on other professionals within the area served by the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.
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 Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Amersham, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Nov 2026.
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