Band 8a Specialist Practitioner Psychologist

Qualifications

Essential

Essential

An Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Chronic Pain Service

We have an exciting opportunity for a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling or Health) to join our Clinical Health Psychology Service, working within our specialist Chronic Pain Service.

This is a part-time, 22.5 hours per week (0.6 WTE), Band 8a position, offering the opportunity to work as an integral member of a specialist multidisciplinary team supporting people living with chronic pain

The post holder will be based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, with an expectation to work across other University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) sites, including Solihull Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Heartlands Hospital if service needs require.

The Role

As a Practitioner Psychologist within the Chronic Pain Service, you will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people living with chronic pain and its associated psychological, emotional and functional impact.

You will work closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team to provide holistic, evidence-based and person-centred care.

• Providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people living with chronic pain.
• Delivering evidence-based psychological therapies tailored to the needs of patients with persistent and complex pain.
• Providing psychological input to co-lead our multidisciplinary Pain Management Programme.
• Contributing psychological expertise to multidisciplinary team clinics and discussions.
• Working collaboratively with medical, nursing, physiotherapy and other allied health professional colleagues to support integrated patient care.
• Supporting patients to develop strategies for managing the psychological and wider impact of living with chronic pain.
• Contributing to the continued development and evaluation of psychological provision within the Chronic Pain Service.

Alongside your clinical responsibilities, this role provides excellent opportunities to develop and contribute beyond direct patient care.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Main Duties and Tasks Confinued:
The successful applicant will have opportunities to contribute to clinical leadership, teaching and training, supervision, and service development, helping to shape and strengthen psychological provision within the Chronic Pain Service

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

• Doctoral level training in clinical,counselling or health 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.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.

(Candidates for posts who i) possess a qualification in clinical/counselling/health psychology obtained oversees, that does not fully meet UK training requirements; ii) are seeking lateral transfer from another branch of applied psychology; or iii) hold a research degree in a clinical subject, must provide evidence that they have obtained a Statement of Equivalence in awarded by the BPS Committee for The Scrutiny Of Individual Clinical Qualifications, further to the satisfactory completion of such Additional Training As Is Required By The CSICQ.

• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology…