Practitioner Psychologist

• Provide specialist psychological assessment
• Provide specialist 1:1 psychological interventions based on cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy and/or compassion focused therapy.
• Co-facilitate group pain management programmes (PMP's) and contribute to the development of PMP's
• Contribute to the collection and analysis of outcome data of both individual and group interventions
• Offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services' policies and procedures
• Utilise research skills for audit and research purposes as required.
• The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Essential: - Post-graduate doctoral level training in Counselling or Clinical Psychology as accredited by the British Psychology Society (BPS) with HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist; - OR Completion of a Level 2 Accredited CBT course (High Intensity IAPT Training Course) as accredited by the British Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)

Essential: - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Essential: - Experience of working within a pain management and/or other Chronic Health conditions setting providing specialist psychological assessment and interventions.; - Experience of delivering psychological interventions in a group setting.

Essential: - Skills in the use of outcome measures to aid psychological assessment.; - Skills in assessing pain conditions, impact on quality of life, risk and suitability for self-management approaches.; - Skills in the delivery of psychological interventions relevant to the needs of patients with persistent pain conditions and PTSD and those experiencing psychological difficulties secondary to their health condition.; - Skills in the delivery of CBT, ACT and/or CFT interventions on a 1:1 and group basis.; - Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.; - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Desirable: - Knowledge of regulatory frameworks in relation to the patient group.; - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and quantitative data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology.

Essential: - Able to manage stressful situations.; - Able to use time effectively and prioritise workload.; - Ability to be reflective about own practice and style.; - Ability to work well with others in the multidisciplinary team.; - Ability to demonstrate using psychological skills and knowledge in medical settings.; - Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice e.g. attend and use clinical supervision effectively, follow Trust processes and protocols.