Clinical Psychologist - Psychology Health

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We are looking for

a 0.8 WTE Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to join the Pain Management and

Rehabilitation Service based at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree),

in Exeter.

The role is

dynamic and challenging. The post holder would work closely with members of a multidisciplinary

Pain Management Service including other Clinical Psychologists, Consultant

Specialists, Nurses, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists. They will also be part of the wider Clinical

Health Psychology & Neuropsychology services to the Royal Devon University Healthcare

NHS Foundation Trust (RDUH). The

post-holder will also benefit from established links with Exeter and Plymouth

Universities, with opportunities for teaching, supervision, CPD and research.

The

post involves working alongside the other psychologists in the pain psychology

service in delivering assessments and individual psychological therapies for

people with persistent pain. The

psychology team is embedded within the multidisciplinary Pain Management

Rehabilitation Team (Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy) and works closely

with consultant and nursing colleagues in the wider Pain Management Team. You will have the opportunity to contribute

to MDT meetings, work with other professionals and be involved in delivering

group interventions.

Interview date scheduled for 4th November 2026

Main duties of the job

The post will

provide clinical input across a range of care pathways and interventions

including; joint MDT assessments, psychology triage clinics, individual

psychological therapy, and group based approaches. You will be interested in developing skills

in compassion focussed, ACT or other appropriate psychological therapies.

The service has

developed innovative approaches to patient care including compassion focussed

methods of delivery for patients with persistent pain. Clinical outcomes data

is routinely collected and there will be opportunities for involvement in

service related research.

About us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

Details

Date posted

30 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year

pro rata (30 hours per week)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

C9369-26-0617-2

Job locations

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

United Kingdom

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree)

Gladstone Road

Exeter

EX1 2ED

United Kingdom

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree)

Gladstone Road

Exeter

EX1 2ED

United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

The principal purpose of the job is to

improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with persistent pain

and related disorders who attend the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree)

(RDUH) Pain Management Service.

This will be achieved in this post by:

Providing a Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies service to the

Pain Management Service at the RDUH. This forms a key component of integrated mental health and wellbeing services

within the Royal Devon University HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust.

Contributing to the local clinical leadership, co-ordination and

supervision of staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the

Pain Management Rehabilitation Service, under the general direction and

supervision of the Professional Manager.

Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and

consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.

The post holder will be supported by the Professional Leads and also by

senior colleagues within the Pain Management Rehabilitation Team Psychology

Service and the wider Clinical Health and Neuropsychology Service. The post

holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the

service to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise

responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within

the health teams and services they will work with.

The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical

supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines

set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated

Professional Body.

Duties and

Responsibilities

Communication

and Working Relationship Skills

  • Clients,

family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with

clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating

and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.

  • Multidisciplinary

team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues from both Devon Partnership Trust

and the Acute Trust in the multi-professional integrated mental health/physical

health and wellbeing service on a day-to-day basis.

  • Health

& social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff

in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive

manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment,

formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To

provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles

and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.

  • Senior

managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships

with senior professional staff and managers across the Trust and the Acute

Trust, to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and

wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.

Analytical

and Judgemental Skills

  • To

provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology expertise and advice.

  • To

provide psychological therapies, developing specialist psychological

formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their

psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological

interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. Proficiency in in

both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.

  • To support the Professional Head, General Manager, Practice and

Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service

development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within

the team.

  • To provide complex assessment of specialist

conditions.

Planning

and Organisational Skills

  • The psychology service: To plan and organise own work within the service setting

and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of

psychological services within the commissioned integrated mental health and

wellbeing service to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.

  • The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy supervision

to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental

health and wellbeing services.

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment

and Therapy

  • Assessment & intervention: To provide expert psychological

therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments

of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and

implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families

and groups, and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.

  • Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and

consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other

service providers, patients, supporters and families.

Responsibility

for Policy and Service Development Implementation

  • The post holder is accountable for their own professional

actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional

Practice Guidelines.

  • Policy & service: To support policies and procedures for the provision of

psychology and therapy services within own service and other services within

the Trust.

  • R & D: To support the R&D activities of the clinical health

psychology and neuropsychology service.

Responsibility

for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources

  • To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under

own use.

Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision,

Training, HR Advice and Management

  • Leadership & supervision: To professionally supervise less

experienced psychology/therapy staff, trainees and volunteers.

  • To provide placement responsibilities for trainee staff.
  • To contribute to the provision of therapy supervision for non-psychology/therapy

staff providing psychological therapies within other Trust teams.

  • To support placements for trainee staff in line with

professional guidelines.

Responsibility

for Information Resources and Administrative Duties

  • To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust

Practice Standards.

  • To be responsible for using an email account to generate,

monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much

of its internal communication.

Responsibility

for Research and Development

  • To

utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based

practice in individual work within the individual work within the CHNP

service and local integrated psychological medicine services .

  • To

conduct project work including specific areas of audit, research or service

evaluation.

  • As a clinician to be responsible for

collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice-based

evidence and service evaluation.

Freedom

to Act

  • The

post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within

Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines.

  • To work autonomously within

clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the

governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation

of professional and Trust guidelines,

and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and

General Manager.

  • To

provide specialist clinical psychology expertise and advice, guidance

and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues,

other service providers, patients, supporters and families.

Any

Other Specific Tasks Required

  • To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by

psychologists/psychotherapists/therapists is carried out under appropriate

supervision and leadership.

  • To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously

update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

The principal purpose of the job is to

improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with persistent pain

and related disorders who attend the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree)

(RDUH) Pain Management Service.

This will be achieved in this post by:

Providing a Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies service to the

Pain Management Service at the RDUH. This forms a key component of integrated mental health and wellbeing services

within the Royal Devon University HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust.

Contributing to the local clinical leadership, co-ordination and

supervision of staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the

Pain Management Rehabilitation Service, under the general direction and

supervision of the Professional Manager.

Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and

consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.

The post holder will be supported by the Professional Leads and also by

senior colleagues within the Pain Management Rehabilitation Team Psychology

Service and the wider Clinical Health and Neuropsychology Service. The post

holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the

service to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise

responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within

the health teams and services they will work with.

The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical

supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines

set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated

Professional Body.

Duties and

Responsibilities

Communication

and Working Relationship Skills

  • Clients,

family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with

clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating

and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.

  • Multidisciplinary

team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues from both Devon Partnership Trust

and the Acute Trust in the multi-professional integrated mental health/physical

health and wellbeing service on a day-to-day basis.

  • Health

& social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff

in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive

manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment,

formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To

provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles

and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.

  • Senior

managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships

with senior professional staff and managers across the Trust and the Acute

Trust, to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and

wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.

Analytical

and Judgemental Skills

  • To

provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology expertise and advice.

  • To

provide psychological therapies, developing specialist psychological

formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their

psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological

interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. Proficiency in in

both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.

  • To support the Professional Head, General Manager, Practice and

Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service

development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within

the team.

  • To provide complex assessment of specialist

conditions.

Planning

and Organisational Skills

  • The psychology service: To plan and organise own work within the service setting

and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of

psychological services within the commissioned integrated mental health and

wellbeing service to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.

  • The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy supervision

to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental

health and wellbeing services.

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment

and Therapy

  • Assessment & intervention: To provide expert psychological

therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments

of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and

implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families

and groups, and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.

  • Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and

consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other

service providers, patients, supporters and families.

Responsibility

for Policy and Service Development Implementation

  • The post holder is accountable for their own professional

actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional

Practice Guidelines.

  • Policy & service: To support policies and procedures for the provision of

psychology and therapy services within own service and other services within

the Trust.

  • R & D: To support the R&D activities of the clinical health

psychology and neuropsychology service.

Responsibility

for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources

  • To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under

own use.

Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision,

Training, HR Advice and Management

  • Leadership & supervision: To professionally supervise less

experienced psychology/therapy staff, trainees and volunteers.

  • To provide placement responsibilities for trainee staff.
  • To contribute to the provision of therapy supervision for non-psychology/therapy

staff providing psychological therapies within other Trust teams.

  • To support placements for trainee staff in line with

professional guidelines.

Responsibility

for Information Resources and Administrative Duties

  • To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust

Practice Standards.

  • To be responsible for using an email account to generate,

monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much

of its internal communication.

Responsibility

for Research and Development

  • To

utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based

practice in individual work within the individual work within the CHNP

service and local integrated psychological medicine services .

  • To

conduct project work including specific areas of audit, research or service

evaluation.

  • As a clinician to be responsible for

collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice-based

evidence and service evaluation.

Freedom

to Act

  • The

post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within

Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines.

  • To work autonomously within

clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the

governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation

of professional and Trust guidelines,

and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and

General Manager.

  • To

provide specialist clinical psychology expertise and advice, guidance

and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues,

other service providers, patients, supporters and families.

Any

Other Specific Tasks Required

  • To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by

psychologists/psychotherapists/therapists is carried out under appropriate

supervision and leadership.

  • To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously

update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society. Registered with HCPC.

Desirable

  • Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Broad knowledge of specialist services and of the services in the NHS where psychology is commonly applied.
  • Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long-term perspective.
  • Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
  • Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people
  • Ability to tolerate ambiguity and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
  • Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
  • Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
  • Proficiency in in both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with complex trauma and with systems working around people who have experienced trauma.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of neuropsychological assessment and awareness of impact of neuropsychological symptoms on presentation

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society. Registered with HCPC.

Desirable

  • Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Broad knowledge of specialist services and of the services in the NHS where psychology is commonly applied.
  • Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long-term perspective.
  • Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
  • Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people
  • Ability to tolerate ambiguity and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
  • Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
  • Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
  • Proficiency in in both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with complex trauma and with systems working around people who have experienced trauma.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of neuropsychological assessment and awareness of impact of neuropsychological symptoms on presentation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

NHS Careers website .

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

The principal purpose of the job is to

improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with persistent pain

and related disorders who attend the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree)

(RDUH) Pain Management Service.

This will be achieved in this post by:

Providing a Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies service to the

Pain Management Service at the RDUH. This forms a key component of integrated mental health and wellbeing services

within the Royal Devon University HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust.

Contributing to the local clinical leadership, co-ordination and

supervision of staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the

Pain Management Rehabilitation Service, under the general direction and

supervision of the Professional Manager.

Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and

consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.

The post holder will be supported by the Professional Leads and also by

senior colleagues within the Pain Management Rehabilitation Team Psychology

Service and the wider Clinical Health and Neuropsychology Service. The post

holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the

service to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise

responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within

the health teams and services they will work with.

The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical

supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines

set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated

Professional Body.

Duties and

Responsibilities

Communication

and Working Relationship Skills

  • Clients,

family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with

clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating

and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.

  • Multidisciplinary

team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues from both Devon Partnership Trust

and the Acute Trust in the multi-professional integrated mental health/physical

health and wellbeing service on a day-to-day basis.

  • Health

& social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff

in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive

manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment,

formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To

provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles

and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.

  • Senior

managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships

with senior professional staff and managers across the Trust and the Acute

Trust, to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and

wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.

Analytical

and Judgemental Skills

  • To

provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology expertise and advice.

  • To

provide psychological therapies, developing specialist psychological

formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their

psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological

interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. Proficiency in in

both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.

  • To support the Professional Head, General Manager, Practice and

Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service

development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within

the team.

  • To provide complex assessment of specialist

conditions.

Planning

and Organisational Skills

  • The psychology service: To plan and organise own work within the service setting

and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of

psychological services within the commissioned integrated mental health and

wellbeing service to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.

  • The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy supervision

to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental

health and wellbeing services.

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment

and Therapy

  • Assessment & intervention: To provide expert psychological

therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments

of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and

implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families

and groups, and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.

  • Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and

consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other

service providers, patients, supporters and families.

Responsibility

for Policy and Service Development Implementation

  • The post holder is accountable for their own professional

actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional

Practice Guidelines.

  • Policy & service: To support policies and procedures for the provision of

psychology and therapy services within own service and other services within

the Trust.

  • R & D: To support the R&D activities of the clinical health

psychology and neuropsychology service.

Responsibility

for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources

  • To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under

own use.

Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision,

Training, HR Advice and Management

  • Leadership & supervision: To professionally supervise less

experienced psychology/therapy staff, trainees and volunteers.

  • To provide placement responsibilities for trainee staff.
  • To contribute to the provision of therapy supervision for non-psychology/therapy

staff providing psychological therapies within other Trust teams.

  • To support placements for trainee staff in line with

professional guidelines.

Responsibility

for Information Resources and Administrative Duties

  • To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust

Practice Standards.

  • To be responsible for using an email account to generate,

monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much

of its internal communication.

Responsibility

for Research and Development

  • To

utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based

practice in individual work within the individual work within the CHNP

service and local integrated psychological medicine services .

  • To

conduct project work including specific areas of audit, research or service

evaluation.

  • As a clinician to be responsible for

collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice-based

evidence and service evaluation.

Freedom

to Act

  • The

post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within

Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines.

  • To work autonomously within

clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the

governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation

of professional and Trust guidelines,

and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and

General Manager.

  • To

provide specialist clinical psychology expertise and advice, guidance

and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues,

other service providers, patients, supporters and families.

Any

Other Specific Tasks Required

  • To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by

psychologists/psychotherapists/therapists is carried out under appropriate

supervision and leadership.

  • To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously

update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society. Registered with HCPC.

Desirable

  • Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Broad knowledge of specialist services and of the services in the NHS where psychology is commonly applied.
  • Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long-term perspective.
  • Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
  • Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people
  • Ability to tolerate ambiguity and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
  • Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
  • Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
  • Proficiency in in both individual and group therapy approaches is desirable.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with complex trauma and with systems working around people who have experienced trauma.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of neuropsychological assessment and awareness of impact of neuropsychological symptoms on presentation

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