Clinical/counselling/health Psychologist

2 months ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
Can you bring your skills to help people with chronic pain to improve their quality of life via high quality evidence-based rehabilitation? Would you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team, with a varied job role?

**Main duties of the job**:
This post offers much to psychologists keen to develop a career in physical health work:

- Close working with a team of pain psychologists across the career span
- Supervision with a highly experienced pain psychologist; and leadership & professional support from a consultant psychologist in the Pain Centre and a senior consultant psychologist who is Head of Service across Pain and Clinical Health Psychology
- Membership of a large group of psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists who work across a range of specialities
- Direct clinical work, and other psychology roles including teaching, training, research, consultation and supervision; enabling you to develop your skills across all areas of practice.
- Investment and support in your development, via in-house development activities and support for external CPD
- Experience in physical health or pain work is welcome but not required. If you bring enthusiasm and flexibility, we will support you in developing your skills in this field

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Salford Care Organisation is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications & Training**:
**Essential criteria**:

- British Psychological Society Accredited Doctoral Degree in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology
- Eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist Status
- Registered with The Health & Care Professions Council as a ‘Practitioner Psychologist’
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Considerable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings.
- An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with chronic pain.
- Experience of psychological work with people with physical health problems.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Group-based CBT intervention.

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with physical health problems.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

**Other**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriat

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