Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our dedicated and well-established interdisciplinary chronic pain and fatigue management service with a focus on supporting people with Long COVID.

We welcome applications from newly qualified, or less experienced clinical psychologists who can initially be appointed to a Band 7 Development Post. The post holder will be supported to develop their skills across predetermined core competencies. Once they have been assessed as meeting these competencies, they will move to band 8a in the service.

The service works with people with a wide range of chronic pain conditions, ME/CFS and Long COVID. The post holder will be involved in assessment and a range of interventions including group, individual and workshops. The service is delivered from sites in Aylesbury and Amersham.

Good communication and team-working skills are essential. Previous experience with the identified client groups is not a prerequisite.

You will receive clinical supervision from the Principal Clinical Psychologist and have access to a wide range of CPD activities and a strong network of Psychologists working in the Trust. There are opportunities for service development, service evaluation/research and teaching/training. The Trust has excellent links with the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research and regularly has trainees doing clinical placements.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality highly specialist clinical psychology service to persons with Long COVID, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) across all sectors of care, within the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service and Long COVID assessment clinic. To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service. To utilise research skills, for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes which may impact on other professionals within the area served by the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service.

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