Band 8a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Key aspects of the role will include:

*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.

Leadership, Teaching and Service Development

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

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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.