Job summary

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pain Management, Band 8c

Immediate start, Fixed term contract 12 months.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 0.7WTE Band 8c Clinical Psychologist (1 year Fixed Term Post) to lead on developing, delivering and evaluating a clinical psychology pain management service. This post will provide psychological support for adults with chronic/persistent pain. This work will include psychological assessment and treatment psychological management of a complex and diverse range of patients within the pain management service. This will involve working closely with the MDT staff within the pain management service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist with an interest in Clinical Health Psychology who can work show autonomy and resilience. Clinical supervision will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

It is essential that the post-holder will have a doctorate level clinical psychology professional qualification and be HCPC registered

The post holder will be employed by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The post will comprise of a mix of onsite and remote working involving some virtual appointments. When onsite the post holder will be primarily based at: Nottingham University Hospital, City Hospital Campus but will at times be required to also work from QMC Campus and possibly community venues. Applicants must have the personal qualities and resilience to be able to work in a busy acute trust setting.

About us

The successful applicant will join our expanding Department of Clinical Psychology & Neuropsychology within the trust which provides psychological and/or neuropsychological input to a range medical services to (including e.g. burns, renal, major trauma, cystic fibrosis etc). As a department we have excellent links with the University of Nottingham and the Trent Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course.

Date posted

20 February 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£67,064 to £77,274 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

164-4935049

Job locations

Cross site (QMC and City Hospital)

Nottingham

NG7 2UH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details of the main responsibilities and requirements of the role.

Please apply if you can demonstrate:

  • A strong interest and enthusiasm for working in clinical health psychology
  • Evidence of significant knowledge and substantial post doctorate experience of working in clinical health psychology
  • A good working knowledge and experience of evidence-based psychological therapies
  • Sound clinical risk assessment and management
  • Experience of working safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
  • Training and experience of supervising therapists and/or other clinical staff

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details of the main responsibilities and requirements of the role.

Please apply if you can demonstrate:

  • A strong interest and enthusiasm for working in clinical health psychology
  • Evidence of significant knowledge and substantial post doctorate experience of working in clinical health psychology
  • A good working knowledge and experience of evidence-based psychological therapies
  • Sound clinical risk assessment and management
  • Experience of working safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
  • Training and experience of supervising therapists and/or other clinical staff

Person Specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential

  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • 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.
  • Eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist BPS Status and registered as a Clinical Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
  • Post-doctoral training/study in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice and supervision

Desirable

  • Additional post doctoral training/study/qualifications in specialised areas illness or health psychology
  • Post-qualification accreditation in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g.: cognitive behaviour therapy, ACT, Mindfulness, EMDR, etc.
  • Specialist training relating to patients with chronic pain and/or chronic medical conditions.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive post qualification experience which should include clinical experience of working with patients with general medical conditions and chronic illnesses.
  • Experience of developing a clinical psychology service
  • 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 of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision to qualified /unqualified clinical psychologists / clinical psychologists in training.
  • Experience of supervising and managing research and audit projects

Desirable

  • Post-doctoral training/study in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice and supervision
  • Additional study/qualifications in illness or health psychology
  • Specialist knowledge, experience and/or training relating to chronic and life limiting conditions
  • Experience of leading a clinical psychology service
  • Experience of professional management of qualified or pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
  • Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
  • Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora.
  • Experience of leadership and management.
  • Experience of managing and developing specialist services
  • Specialist knowledge and experience of working with chronic pain and/or chronic medical conditions

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

  • A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
  • Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.

Desirable

  • The ability to work effectively with clients from a diverse range of cultural/ethnic backgrounds, and to understand and respect the impact of difference and diversity upon clients’ lives and difficulties.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of highest level of analytical and judgemental skills.
  • A doctoral level of research knowledge. The ability to lead on both clinical and non-clinical research, applying a doctoral level of knowledge and skills in research designs, methods and analyses (including complex multivariate statistics) as practised in the field of clinical psychology.
  • Ability to analyse highly complex psychological data in order to develop individual psychological formulations.
  • Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Ability to carry and administer heavy test materials.
  • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of highly advanced planning and organisational skills
  • Post-qualification experience of service development and planning

Desirable

  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books Formal management/leadership training.
Person Specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential

  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • 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.
  • Eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist BPS Status and registered as a Clinical Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
  • Post-doctoral training/study in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice and supervision

Desirable

  • Additional post doctoral training/study/qualifications in specialised areas illness or health psychology
  • Post-qualification accreditation in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g.: cognitive behaviour therapy, ACT, Mindfulness, EMDR, etc.
  • Specialist training relating to patients with chronic pain and/or chronic medical conditions.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive post qualification experience which should include clinical experience of working with patients with general medical conditions and chronic illnesses.
  • Experience of developing a clinical psychology service
  • 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 of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision to qualified /unqualified clinical psychologists / clinical psychologists in training.
  • Experience of supervising and managing research and audit projects

Desirable

  • Post-doctoral training/study in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice and supervision
  • Additional study/qualifications in illness or health psychology
  • Specialist knowledge, experience and/or training relating to chronic and life limiting conditions
  • Experience of leading a clinical psychology service
  • Experience of professional management of qualified or pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
  • Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
  • Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora.
  • Experience of leadership and management.
  • Experience of managing and developing specialist services
  • Specialist knowledge and experience of working with chronic pain and/or chronic medical conditions

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

  • A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
  • Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.

Desirable

  • The ability to work effectively with clients from a diverse range of cultural/ethnic backgrounds, and to understand and respect the impact of difference and diversity upon clients’ lives and difficulties.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of highest level of analytical and judgemental skills.
  • A doctoral level of research knowledge. The ability to lead on both clinical and non-clinical research, applying a doctoral level of knowledge and skills in research designs, methods and analyses (including complex multivariate statistics) as practised in the field of clinical psychology.
  • Ability to analyse highly complex psychological data in order to develop individual psychological formulations.
  • Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Ability to carry and administer heavy test materials.
  • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of highly advanced planning and organisational skills
  • Post-qualification experience of service development and planning

Desirable

  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books Formal management/leadership training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).