Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist Pain Management

Job description

Job responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities

• The post holder will be expected to provide a psychological to patients of the pain management speciality. The post holder will assist the lead of speciality in the systematic provision of clinical psychology / Counselling Psychology service to adults referred from the Pain Clinical referral system. This will be providing services in a variety of settings namely the outpatient service and the acute ward rounds and reflective group for acute pain staff. Service provision within this scope will involve liaison with more than one team.

Key Result Areas;

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the pain management service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observation and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients pain management issues, based upon appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions and treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the pain management service across all settings and agencies serving this client group.
7. To undertake risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
8. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Training, Teaching and supervision;

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
2. To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology and the amount and nature of such experience to be agreed with the head of speciality.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.
4. To provide pro0fessional and clinical supervision of an assistant and as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists.
5. To contribute to pre- and post- qualification teaching of clinical psychology.
6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development;

1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistants and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the services and the Pain department policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in short listing and interviewing assistant/graduate psychologists under the direction of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
5. AS negotiated and within time constraints, the post holder will be expected to attend relevant clinical meetings within and outside the pain management services at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
6. The post holder will be expected to attend regular professional meetings of the pain management department and other departmental meetings.

Research & Evaluation;

1. To utilise, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual, group, dual work and work with wider team members.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
3. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation within the pain management team to help develop service provision.
4. To familiarise themselves with, and to comply with, the Trusts requirements on research and development

IT responsibilities (other than those used for research);

1. The post holder will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinic records and statistical data and provide this to the service manager/head of specialty when necessary.
2. The post holder will engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.
3. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that those psychologists they are responsible for/supervise engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data.

General:

1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post-holders professional and service manager.
2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop skills of a reflexive and reflective scientists practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical / counselling psychology and related disciplines.
3. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of registration, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

Confidentiality:

The post holder must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the code of confidentiality of personal health data, the Korner report on confidentiality and the data protection act 1984.

Health & Safety:

Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the health and safety at work act (1974), to ensure that the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees and visitors.

Equal opportunities:

The Trust has adopted an equal opportunities policy and it is the duty of every employee to comply with the detail and spirit of the policy.

To be noted:

1. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
2. The job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of the changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.

Person Specification

Clinical Health Competence

Essential

• Demonstrates competence/knowledge of generic or core physical health Understanding
• Competent in clinical supervision of healthcare staff in psychological interventions and therapies

Essential

Essential

• . D. Clin. Psy or equivalent
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council
• Chartered Applied Psychologist, membership of BPS
• Experience of working in physical health settings

Desirable

• Clear evidence of interest in physical health, as shown e.g. dissertation, pre/post training work, or clinical training placements or dissertation

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in physical health settings

Desirable

• Strong and plausible expression of interest in clinical health practice
• Clear evidence of interest in physical health, as shown e.g. dissertation, pre/post training work, or clinical training placements or dissertation
• Extensive experience over several years of working in clinical health in terms of direct clinical work and consultancy

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

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UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chelsea And Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

369 Fulham Road

London

SW109NH

Employer's website

https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)