Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist in Chronic Pain who wishes to join our friendly and psychologically-minded MDT. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care, and work with us to ensure the Trust values of Caring, Respect, Teamwork and Improvement are met.

The successful candidate will be confident in providing individual and group based psychological therapies to individuals with complex pain. There will also be opportunity to facilitate sessions on the pain management programmes, as well as help shape the future development of this.

The chronic pain service includes physio, OT, assistant psychologist, therapies assistant and a consultant medic. The team has in recent years undertaken a restructuring exercise and is now aiming to increase the psychology resource offered to those with persistent pain and so are looking to increase our staffing in line with this.

This would be an ideal job for those newly or recently qualified, or for anyone who has been working post-qualification and wishes to develop their skills in working within chronic pain.  You will be well supported by the team and the lead psychologist who all hold the values of compassion, kindness, ambition and respect and who all hold the patients’ and each other’s wellbeing at the heart of everything they do.

Main duties of the job

You will form part of the multidisciplinary team and will provide advice and consultation on psychological aspects of pain management to both patients and other clinicians. This will include participating in both multidisciplinary assessments and individual psychological assessments and evidence-based psychological interventions. The post holder will be clinically responsible for an individual caseload as well as contributing to the development and delivery of group-based pain management interventions.

There will be monthly supervision from the Principal Clinical Psychologist as well as wider network support from the North West Pain Psychologists’ Special Interest Group and from other clinical psychologists working in adult mental health across Wirral. You will be expected and supported to engage with these networks to develop your skills and experience within the role.

The post involves taking an active part in audit, research and development of the service as well as contributing to any training needs around this both within the team and wider within the trust and local community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See main job description and person specification attached for detailed information regarding responsibilities