Job summary
- Main area
- Neurology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 309-UCLH-3961-A
- Employer
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 Per annum inclusive of HCAS pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a 0.6wte Band 7 Clinical/Specialist Psychologist to join the headache psychology team within the Headache team at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The headache teams provide a national tertiary service to patients with complex and chronic headache presentations (including chronic migraine and cluster headache). The teams take referrals from all over the UK, and patients often have complex needs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside clinical psychologist, consultants, nurses and other medical colleagues.
The post involves specialist assessment and intervention for patients with complex headache presentations, providing evidence based psychological interventions to help them reduce the impact of their headaches on them and their lives and adapt to living with their conditions.
Part of the work will include assessing patients for suitability on the Occipital Nerve Stimulator surgery pathway. Interventions will be carried out on an individual and group basis. There will also be opportunity to support service development.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Person specification
Knowledge & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in psychology or related disciplines, and a Doctorate and/or PhD level in clinical psychology or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or Counselling psychology
- Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings and in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of collaboratively working within multi-disciplinary team settings and providing consultation, teaching and training to colleagues.
Desirable criteria
- An interest and experience of working with patients with chronic pain conditions.
Communication & Customer Care
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of the needs of patients with acute and chronic disability
- Demonstrates professional and effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to cognitively impaired and/or psychologically vulnerable people and their carers, who may have significant barriers to understanding or acceptance
- To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings.
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma.
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self.
Personal & people development
Essential criteria
- Ability to establish good rapport and professional working relationships within multidisciplinary teams and other agencies for extended periods of time
- Ability to show initiative and utilise clinical supervision effectively
- Ability to identify areas for own personal / professional development through highly developed reflective practice skills and integrate knowledge gained into own practice
- Effective time management and ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to autonomously manage own caseload
- Ability to complete clinical and research duties in an autonomous fashion, under appropriate supervision
Desirable criteria
- Ability to represent clinical psychology in multi-disciplinary group settings and within specialist clinical services
Academic and research
Essential criteria
- Interest in contributing to the Department’s research programme
Quality and service improvement
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working effectively in multidisciplinary teams
Information processing (IT skills)
Essential criteria
- Competent IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets, statistical packages)
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- A high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be able to cope with highly emotive and psychologically challenging demands of working with patients for long periods of time.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people in a sensitive, caring and non-judgemental manner.
- Ability to contain and work with organisation stress and ‘hold’ stress of others.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Manjit Matharu
- Job title
- Headache Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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