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Principal Psychologist
TN United Kingdom
Lincoln
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 70,000
Full time
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Job summary
Join an established interdisciplinary team in Lincoln as a Principal Psychologist, focusing on chronic pain management. This role offers the chance to provide specialist psychological assessments and deliver both individual and group interventions. You will collaborate with a range of healthcare professionals, developing relationships with local and national clinical stakeholders. Enjoy a rewarding career with opportunities for personal and professional development while serving a diverse patient population. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in the field of mental health.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Accredited postgraduate doctoral degree in clinical, health, or counselling psychology.
- Registration as a ‘Practitioner Psychologist’ with the HCPC.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessments and deliver interventions.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals and maintain communication.
Skills
Education
Job description
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We are seeking a Principal Psychologist to join our established interdisciplinary team based in Lincoln. The ideal candidate will have a passion for chronic pain management and experience managing a caseload within a physical health setting.
- Provide specialist psychological assessments and formulations.
- Deliver individual and group interventions as part of our community-based chronic pain service.
- Collaborate with nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists.
- Maintain excellent communication and relationship skills, and respond resiliently to highly emotive situations.
- Develop relationships with local and national clinical stakeholders, including IAPT services, GPs, secondary care, and others.
- Offer advice and consultation on psychological aspects of pain management to health professionals.
- Advance knowledge and practice of psychological theories and principles.
Requirements:
- British Psychological Society accredited postgraduate doctoral degree in clinical, health, or counselling psychology.
- Registration with The Health & Care Professions Council as a ‘Practitioner Psychologist’.
For a full role description, please see the attached job description.
Connect Health is the largest independent community healthcare provider in the UK, offering services in mental health, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, MSK, chronic pain, long Covid, First Contact Practitioners, and rheumatology, serving over 375,000 NHS patients annually across 29 NHS ICBs.
- Up to 30 days’ holiday plus public holidays
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- Additional day off for your birthday
- Employer pension contributions
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Employee assistance programme
- Performance-related pay rewards
- Team building and away days
- Reimbursement of HCPC and CSP membership fees for clinicians
“The best thing about Connect Health? For me, it’s the opportunity to develop.”
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