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Job summary

Main area
Psychology
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-NMUH-8282508
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chase Farm Hospital
Town
Enfield
Salary
£55,524 - £62,652 Inclusive of Outer HCAS, per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/10/2026 23:59
NHS

Practitioner Psychologist

Band 7

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist /CBT Therapist in Pain Management
 
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Enfield Pain Service (EPS) which serves patients who have a long-term pain condition e.g. chronic lower back pain, chronic widespread pain, fibromyalgia. The focus of the Enfield Pain Service is to help patients understand their pain condition, as well as supporting them to develop a range of skills and strategies to manage their pain effectively long-term and improve quality of life . You'll be joining a supportive multidisciplinary team  comprising of medical, physiotherapy and psychology professionals - with the post holder being supervised by a Band 8a psychologist. 
 
A background and interest in working in a physical health setting with long-term health conditions is an advantage, however the post-holder will also receive training and on-going support within the service. The daily duties will involve supporting the MDT in terms of psychological assessment and delivering 1:1 and group interventions based on CBT, ACT and CFT approaches, along with contributing to service evaluation/improvement projects, supervising an assistant psychologist and liaising with other relevant services e.g. Talking Therapies, MSK services. 
 
Working in Pain can be incredibly rewarding and the post-holder will likely be able to develop their psychological skills and expertise that can be generalisable to lots of other types of physical health conditions. 

Main duties of the job

  • 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.

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and personal specifications for the outline of the job and responsibilities 

Person specification

Eductaion and Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 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)

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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.

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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.

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential criteria
  • 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.
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Angela Burrows
Job title
Band 8a Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 45553 7783

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