Principle Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Are you a positive and enthusiastic clinical psychologist looking to bring your skills and experience to the specialty of Pain Management? Would you like to join a team of friendly clinical psychologists working across the Acute Trust and Community settings? You will be working into an interdisciplinary team who already have positive experiences of clinical psychology, under the professional guidance of the Head of Psychology. If you have vision and a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, reflecting your ability to work collaboratively, bring people on board and facilitate positive change at all levels this could be an exciting opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job

You will be working directly with patients, and MDT colleagues, to help inform psychological aspects of the patient journey and provide highly specialised psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions. You will contribute to service developments and staff training and development, including consultancy and individual and group supervision to colleagues. You will work with outpatients. The clinical psychology service has provided an uninterrupted service to patients, throughout the pandemic, by rapidly adopting smarter working practices. We now routinely make regular use of video clinics; you will be equipped and supported to work flexibly and remotely, including working from home, wherever appropriate, bringing the additional advantage of being able to flexibly meet service need and to achieve a good work-life balance. These technological advantages and efficiencies have been positively recognised and supported at the highest levels within the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To develop, implement and manage specialist assessment and high level and complex programmes of psychological therapies for patients with highly complex psychological needs within the area of expertise and the MDT. To carry out high level and complex psychological treatment and other interventions within the specialist area that necessitate the interpretation and communication of highly complex and sensitive medical, psychological and social information, the application of empathy and the ability to manage hostility, aggression, potential violence or manipulation from the patient or their families. To arrive at a formulation and treatment plan where there is likely to be a range of options available.