Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information please refer to the job description and personal specification:

• To provide clinical psychology services for the pain pathway.
• To offer consultation regarding pain management issues for qualified and unqualified clinical psychology staff in the team.
• To be responsible for offering a comprehensive clinical psychology service for children and young people with pain and cancer, and their families.
• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent)
• Valid HCPC registration, or eligible for HCPC registration following completion of an HCPC accredited course
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• Training in one or more additional therapies with an evidence base for chronic pain

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as either as a trainee clinical psychologist or as a newly qualified clinician and within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of teaching and training other professionals
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of neuropsychology and experience in neuropsychological testing

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in paediatric psychology
• Experience of working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams within a hospital setting
• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• Experience of providing psychological pain management interventions
• Experience as the sole psychologist within an MDT

Skills Abilities/knowledge

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level knowledge and experience in research design and methodology
• An ability to initiate and implement research projects
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring use of sustained and intense concentration
• A high-level ability to communicate potentially complex and sensitive information effectively at both a written and oral level, both to patients and their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside of NHS
• The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Skills in providing consultation and advice to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance and audit mechanisms to reflect, assess and maintain the effectiveness of clinical practice
• Enthusiasm for clinical psychology, health psychology and working with children, young people and families
• An interest in service development and delivery
• Ability to effectively manage competing demands
• Ability to provide and promote appropriate support to carers and staff
• Willingness to keep abreast of literature and of new developments in the field
• Computer literate, and ability to use multi-media materials for presentations
• Ability to articulate and interpret the role of clinical psychology, within both local and national contexts

Desirable criteria

• An ability to work as the sole psychologist within an MDT, with support from the wider Paediatric and Teenage Psychological Support Service
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapy for use in physical health settings
• Knowledge of legislation and implications for clinical practice
• A commitment to evaluation of services, including audit
• A wish to continue to develop expertise in area of paediatrics
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural framework

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